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March 21, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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The Florists* Manual 



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The Florists* Qub. 



Our club held its first meeting of the 

 month March 12, with President Sher- 

 man F. Stephens in the chair. The im- 

 portant matter of the evening was the 

 question as to whether the penny pack- 

 ■ets of flower and vegetable seeds, which 

 have been put up for the school children, 

 «hould be given to them or whether the 

 packets should be paid for by the 

 -children. Our club is a unit in believing 

 that it is for the good of the children 

 that they pay the few pennies neces- 

 sary. To arrange this matter the club 

 has appointed M. B. Faxon, Sherman F. 

 Stephens and R. A. Currie as a com- 

 mittee to confer with the Columbus 

 board of education. 



The display of plants and flowers at 

 this meeting was the best of the season 

 thus far. The prize committee for the 

 evening, consisting of Messrs. Torrey, 

 Brust, Meitzmaier, "Williams and Monk, 

 awarded to I. D. Siebert, for a fine 

 Mme. Vander Cruyssen azalea, twenty 

 points; R. A. Currie, for Spiraea 

 superba, fifteen points; Sherman F. 

 ■Stephens, for Murillo tulips, fifteen 

 points; Jacob Reichert, for Keizers- 

 kroon tulips, ten points, and for a good 

 ■Genista fragrans, ten points went to 

 A. Wedemeyer. As this was ladies' 

 night, we shortened the business part 

 and devoted the balance of the evening 

 to entertaining our guests. 



Various Notei. 



N. J. Wietor, of Wietor Bros., Chi- 

 cago, has been for several days seeing 

 our city as the guest of William Graff, 

 of Graff Bros. Mr. "Wietor is of the 

 -opinion that Easter will see a great 



business, with plenty of stock, with the 

 exception of lilies. 



W. P. Sharp is advertising nursery 

 stock in our local papers that he "guar- 

 antees to grow." 



"Without question the most elaborate 

 and extensive floral decorations ever at- 

 tempted in this city were planned and 

 arranged by 0. B. Springer, for the 

 opening of the department stores of the 

 David C. Begga. Co. For this decora- 

 tion the Livingston Seed Co. supplied 

 bay trees, palms, ferns and other 

 foliage plants to the number of over 

 500. Large quantities of carnations and 

 roses were also used in vases. From 

 Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, came 

 a glorious bunch of American Beauty 

 roses. 



At a recent meeting of the Pleasant 

 Ridge Improvement Association it was 

 recommended that Norway maples be 

 planted as street trees in this city. 



Graff Bros, took advantage of the 

 lower rates for carnations to have one 

 of their special sales, and disposed of an 

 enormous quantity at 35 cents per dozen. 

 This firm received many orders for 

 green carnations for St. Patrick's day. 



Last Saturday the Livingston Seed 

 Co. had its usual before Easter flowering 

 plant sale at popular prices. 



The Fifth Avenue Floral Co. has an 

 especially good stock of both flowers 

 and plants coming on for the Easter 

 trade. Their azaleas are the best I 

 have seen. 



Gustavo Drobish at his stand on the 

 central market is doing a good business 

 in plants of all kinds at popular prices. 

 Saturday being the great market day, 

 trade is always the best. 



John "Williams has a quantity of 

 blooming geraniums that will bring good 

 prices at Easter. 



The new carnation houses of John R. 

 Hellenthal are attracting much attention 

 from the craft here. Charles M. Jones, 

 the grower, is certainly turning out 

 some prime flowers. Zero. 



HYDROCYANIC ACID GAS. 



I have a small greenhouse filled with 

 miscellaneous material, and at this time 

 of the year with annual and perennial 

 seedlings. Three years ago someone pre- 

 sented me with a bunch of white fly 

 whose capacity to increase cannot be 

 questioned. Sweet alyssum, lantana 

 and fuchsia are their favorites. I want 

 to reduce the ravages of the white fly 

 and am afraid to use hydrocyanic acid 

 gas on account of the seedlings, some 

 just sprouting. My idea is to remove 

 early in the morning, when I under- 

 stand the fly is inclined to be dormant, 

 those plants most affected into the 

 boiler room and fumigate. The cubic 

 feet of this room is 1,380 feet. How 

 much gas should be used? "W. C. E. 



Gas carefully used will injure very 

 few of the most tender plants. "We 

 have tried it on maidenhair ferns, vio- 

 lets, heliotropes and other plants which 

 ordinary tobacco fumigation will soon 

 ruin, and rarely found any resultant 

 injury. "We are afraid if the seedling 

 boxes are all moved out that many of 

 the white fly will escape. The danger 

 of injury from this method of fumiga- 

 tion increases as the weather comes 

 warmer. In midwinter our plants have 

 never sustained any harm, but in sum- 

 mer some leaves have suffered. This, 

 of course, applies to all fumigants con- 

 taining nicotine as well. 



For a house of 1,380 cubic feet wo 

 would recommend using one pint water, 

 one pint sulphuric acid, ninety-eight to 

 ninety-nine per cent grade, and two and 

 one-half ounces potassium cyanide. Pour 

 the acid on the water, using a stone jar, 

 then drop in the cyanide, which should 

 for safety be wrapped in two thick- 

 nesses of paper. Go right out of the 

 house, lock the door and permit no one 

 to enter until next day. This fumiga- 

 tion ought to be repeated in three or 

 four days, and then we believe you will 

 not find many traces of the enemy. If 

 you have any means of ventilating with- 

 out entering the house, some air may 

 be given after forty minutes' exposure. 

 "We usually, however, allow it to stay in 

 all night. C. W. 



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