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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Ai'itii, IS, 1!)07. 



|>ii'k oil" .-ill lldweis. (iive llicni n sliift 

 lii't'oro they Ik'coihc jiotlxmiul. 



If your si'C'dlinjis of Aspaiayiis j)liiiiio- 

 siis nanus ami sinilax air of sufliciciit 

 size, ])ot (ill' Avitlidut dolay. 



Keep at tlw seedlings ami juiek tlieui 

 «>ir as fast as llicy av(> of suHicieut size 

 to liaudle. ]f allowed to hecome erowdcd 

 and tlrawu they will lie of little value. 



All additional sowinji of asters can 

 now lie made. A'ietoria. C'oiiu't and (^ueeu 

 of Karlies are all good sorts. 



If you have any ]eft-ovcr rambler 

 roses, out out all the old flowering wood 

 and give tlie plants a chaiiec to make 

 new shoots from the bottom. 



P>e snr(> you do not allow zonal gera- 

 niums to (Iry nut badly at the root or 

 tliey will soon show the eft'ects of it. 

 (iive yellow-lookiiig jilants a weak dose 



of nitrate of soda to color them up. Do 

 not, however, jiersist in its use, as it 

 causes too rank foliage at expense of 

 flowers. 



Fall potteil Imllis of auratuiii and 

 Hpeciosum lilies will now have pushed 

 up young shoots. (Jive them a cool, 

 light, airy house. ])oii't force them, as 

 tliey re.sent it. 



Jt is six weeks to Memorial day. Look 

 out for the lilies, spincas, hydrangeas, 

 candytuft, feverfew, marguerites and 

 other cro[)S coming along. Push those 

 which may seem u little backward and 

 retard those which are early. 



If you have any late tulips and nar- 

 cissi ill flats and can hold them back in 

 a cold ])it for Memorial day they will 

 bring better money than you could pos- 

 sibl\- (ititain no\\'. 



THE ENGLISH CARNATION SHOW. 



As reported in a recent issue, tlie Wiii- 

 ler-Flowering (arnatinii Snciety in F.ng- 

 land liehl its second annual exhibition 

 Marcii i;; at bN'^^cnl "s jiark. Loud<ni. It 

 was a \ciy successful affair, although not 

 of great extent as compared with the 

 exhibitions of «-ariiatioiis often seen on 

 this side of the Atlantic. The acconi- 

 I>anying illustration i.s reproduced from 

 .•I pliiptograjih of the ]arg(>st exhibit in 

 the sliow and \\iil sri\(' to give American 

 yidwcrs an idea of the chai'acter of the 

 Fnglish exiiibil ion. There are some 

 twenty-five varieties in this display, which 

 was staged liy Hugh Low 6c. Co., said to 

 be the largest yro\\(is of caiiiati<uis in 

 l-]nglaiul. They lia\c several large 

 houses de\()ted to carnations and grow 

 ]>ractically all the American varieties, it 

 will be n(»ted that they .staged not only 

 cut blomns, 1)ut growing pliints in pols. 

 The .•itteiidance at the exhibition was 

 large. The visitors seemed thoroughly 



interested and the exhibitors did a large 

 business in booking orders. The two 

 British novelties, ]\Irs. Burnett and Bri- 

 tannia, sold better than the new Ameri- 

 can sorts. This was doubtless at least in 

 jiart due to the fact that several exhib- 

 itors showed these varieties in first-class 

 style and the new American sorts were 

 not in flower, although young pl.'ints of 

 Beacon, \Vinsor and others were shown. 



STIGMONOSE. 



I enclose a few leaves from my carna- 

 tion plants; the young stock. Can you 

 tell nie the trouble and what causes tlu' 

 spots.' They are making a vigorous 

 growth. 1 thouglit jierhaps it might be 

 aphis, as there have been a few on them. 

 1 am also having trouble with aster 

 seedlings; also some otlu^r seedlings, in- 

 cluding c;ibhage, tomatoes, cauliflo\ver 

 iind smilax. There is something that ;it- 

 tacks tiiem ap|iarentiy under tli(> surface 

 (if the soil. I liavt! examined some and 

 it seems to start witii the top root and 

 ]iroceed upward to the surface. The lit- 



tle jdaiits wither up until they fall ov, , 

 It seems to attack them soon after tli, 

 get through the .soil. I thought at (i|... 

 it was a fungus, but it stM-ms to be 

 I was careful in watering |i 

 The flats were set in a suihi 

 \Vh:it shall 1 do to check i 

 1 have l)een using air-slak. 



K. M. 



dry rot 



seeds. 



])lace. 



thing? 



lime. 



Your carnations are suffering from 

 disease which was formerly known 

 bacteriosis, but which is now calir 

 stigmonose. This is cau.sed by t' 

 punctures made by insects, such as apli; 

 thrips or red spiders, etc. The ligl, 

 si)ots you see are destroyed leaf cells ai 

 you cannot change them by any extern • 

 aji[ilications. In fact, I have heard ■ 

 no remedy for destroying the pois.. 

 which is left by the insect after witi. 

 draAving its ])roboscis, and the only w;i 

 1 know of to get rid of the disease is t 

 selection of cuttings. 



When ]iroi)agating, look over yon 

 plants carefully and take only cuttiiiji 

 which do not show any of these ligl. 

 spots. The next season you will see les 

 of it, though you will hardly get riil (■■ 

 it ill one season. In fact, if you work i 

 out in three .seasons you will be doiii:: 

 well. Frequently the cuttings will de 

 velop these spots in the sand, even when 

 none showed at the time they were takei: 

 from the jilants. if jjotted up aii'i 

 handled carefully, they will apparent!) 

 outgrow it during the summer, but tin 

 next winter it reappears and stdectiei 

 must be practiced again and again, unfii 

 it dLsapjiears entirely. All this tinn 

 great care must be taken to keep off all 

 insects to prevent fresh inoculation. 



Varieties that show a tendency towanl 

 this di.sease should be ])ro]iagated as late 

 as is possible, in order to get the moir 

 vigorous cuttings towards spring, when 

 the disease begiius to disajijiear. The less 

 spots the cuttings show, the better are 

 your (haiices for (dean stock for the next 

 .season, though, as I said before, the spots 

 fre(|uently appear later on. The ])oison 

 seems to run .-ill through the plant ami 

 shows itself at any severe check to the 

 jilanf, especially when the sunlight is 

 weak. 



.\t first it was siijiposed that each sjio, 

 was c;(use(| by a puncture and that when 

 these spots appeare*! it .signifi(>d the pres- 



Display of Hugh Low & Co. at the Second Exhibition of England's Carnation Society, London, March 13, 1907. 



