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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Fbbboaby 7, 1907. 



CARNATIONS OUTIXX)RS. 



Please tell me the best carnations for 

 outdo'or blooming ia summer; also tem- 

 perature for same in the house. 



D. M. S. 



For summer blooming I would suggest 

 the following varieties: White, The 

 Queen, Indiana Market, Moonlight; light 

 pink, Beatrice, Fair Maid, Enchantress; 

 bright pink, Wm. Scott, Ethel Crocker; 

 red, G. H. Crane. You can grow all 

 these with good success indoors in the 

 winter in 50 degrees or 52 degrees, ex- 

 cept Crocker. This is not a first-class 

 winter variety, though we did have splen- 

 did success with it the first three winters 

 we grew it. It requires 55 degrees in 

 the winter. A. F. J. B. 



RED SPIDER. 



In a separate package we send a few 

 leaves of some of our carnation plants. 

 We have them put in solid benches, 6x10, 

 running crossways of our house. In the 

 middle of these beds we find one bed of 

 which the north half are all like the 

 sample. It is confined to this one bed. 

 We don't know whether they have spider, 

 or rust, or what it might be. S. F. Co. 



The carnation branches you sent were 

 literally covered with red spider, and if 

 the whole bed is as bad as these branches 

 were I would advise you to pull them out 

 at once and burn them. Plants that are 

 so badly infested will not do much this 

 season, and if you keep them in the 

 house they will be sure to spread to your 

 other beds before you can exterminate 

 them. Do not propagate firom these 

 plants, lest you get the pest started in 

 your propagating bench, where it will 

 spread very rapidly and do great dam- 

 age. 



After removing these infested plants, 

 and the soil, I would advise you to wash 

 down all the woodwork and drench the 

 path next to the bed. Syringe the beds' 

 on each side n^xt to that one several 

 times during the next couple of weeks 

 to make sure that the pest does not start 

 anew. A. F. J. B. 



LEAF-SPOT. 



You will find enclosed an Enchantress 

 carnation shoot which is dead on the 

 ends of the leaves. This is general all 

 over the house, spoiling some of the buds 

 and flowers. It only appears in one 

 house. The other houses are all right and 

 all have the same kind of soil. Can you 

 tell me what to do for them? 



J. A. F. & S. 



The specimen you forwarded was too 

 dried up for me to make out exactly the 

 disease that is causing your trouble, but 

 no doubt it is one of the leaf -spot dis- 

 eases, and, as they are all closely related 

 and need pretty much the same treat- 

 ment, I will proceed on that presump- 

 tion. No doubt the long-continued dark 

 weather is responsible for its appearance, 

 and if you failed to ventilate freely and 



apply such preventives as sulphur on 

 your steam-pipes it would spread quickly 

 through the house. The fact that it ap- 

 pears in one house and not in the others 

 does not prove anything, save that the 

 conditions in the one house were favor- 

 able to the disease and not in the others. 

 Drop a pinch of sulphur on one of the 

 steam-pipes every six feet or so. Spray 

 the plants twice each week with forma- 

 lin, diluted with water, one to 500. Give 

 all the air you can and run the tempera- 

 ture even. It would be well to pick off 

 all the diseased leaves, to begin with, 

 and burn them. Water carefully, and in 

 fact, do all you can to promote a sturdy 

 growth. Bordeaux mixture is also a good 

 remedy, but it spots the growth so much 

 and is not so desirable as formalin to 

 use on plants that are blooming. 



A. F. J. B. 



Most carnation specialists make it 

 rule nowadays to rotate their plantine 

 as far as practical, and plant carnations 

 on the same ground only every second 

 season, even though there may be no 

 sign of stem-rot. When that disease ap- 

 pears no carnations are planted in that 

 particular territory for several seasons. 

 It would surely recur in much worse 

 form from year to year if carnations 

 were planted each season. If you have 

 plenty of suitable ground then by all 

 means plant your carnations in a differ- 

 ent spot this season, and each summer 

 plant where no carnations were growing 

 the season before. A. F. J. B. 



ROTATING CARNATIONS. 



Is it a bad plan to set out this sea- 

 son's carnations in the same patch of 

 ground as this winter's benched carna- 



FOR SUMMER BLOOM. 



Is Queen Louise a good carnation for 

 outdoor flowering? Can it be flowered 

 successfully by the following treatment: 

 Propagate in January, February or 

 March, plant out in summer, pot them 

 in 4-inch pots and carry them over win- 

 ter in frames; then plant out the fol- 

 lowing summer for the cut blooms. 

 Please mention other varieties that makes 

 good summer bloomers in different colors 

 and give best treatment for Maryland 

 climate. A. B. W. 



We have never grown Queen Louise 

 for summer blooming and hardly think 

 it would be as good for that purpose 

 as Flora Hill or Indiana Market. Both 

 of these stand hot weather well and 

 start to bloom earlier in autumn. The 



Carnation Afterglow. 



(Thought highly of as ahown at Toronto by Wm. Nicholson, Framlngbam, Mass.) 



tions were in last summer? The latter 

 have a bad case of stem-rot and other 

 diseases. C. A. M. 



The fact that your plants suffered 

 from stem-rot in the house does not 

 necessarily prove that the ground in 

 which your plants grew last summer is 

 inoculated with the fungus. It is quite 

 possible that the disease was in the soil 

 in which you planted in the house, and 

 if your plants were practically free from 

 it while in the field, then the soil in the 

 field was most likely free from it. 



Queen ought to prove a good one, too. 

 In other colors I would mention: Fair 

 Maid and Beatrice in light pink; E. 

 Crocker and Wm. Scott in deep pink; 

 G. H. Crane in red. Of the newer kinds 

 White Perfection, Candace and Victory 

 ought to prove good varieties to grow 

 for summer blooms. 



The plan you suggest should work all 

 right if carefully followed. I would 

 suggest propagating as late as you can 

 and get the plants established in small 

 pots before planting out. The idea is 

 to have small plants to lift in autumn. 



