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May 30, 1907. 



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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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Establithment of Allxrt F. Amliog, May wood, III. 



Don 't stop. Remember that no man 

 should go faster than the others. Don't 

 turn back. The gas is fatal to men as 

 well as white fly. When all are out, 

 lock the house and leave it till morning. 

 Before entering, leave it open a while. 



Potassium cyanide costs from about 

 30 to 50 cents per pound, according to 

 the amount purchased. Commercial sul- 

 phuric acid costs from about 2^/^ to 10 

 cents per pound. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



White Fly. 



If your correspondent, W. L., does not 

 care to take the risk of using hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas to kill the white fly, I 

 can recommend this method : Give the 

 tomatoes a thorough fumigating with to- 

 bacco dust, or some of the tobacco 

 papers, some cool evening. In the 

 morning spray the plants with a mixture 

 of one-half pint of Scalecide to twelve 

 gallons of cold water. Care must be 

 taken to have the spray hit the under 

 side of all the leaves and it will kill in- 

 stantly any fix or egg it touches. I have 

 within the last week tried this remedy 

 and found it satisfactory. It was recom- 

 mended to me by James Kinsella, gar- 

 dener to Francis Skinner, Dedham, Mass. 



The fumigating will probably cause a 

 number of flies to fall onto the beds or 

 benches, but wherever a fly is seen give 

 it a bath and that will be the last of it. 

 1 dipped fuchsias, hydrangeas, pelargo- 

 niums, tomatoes and many other plants 

 and, with the strength of the mixture as 

 given, nothing was harmed. Better re- 

 sults are to be had from dipping than 

 from spraying, where it is possible to do 

 it. If W. L. tries this method, will he 

 please report the result? 



Thomas Coles. 



A White Fly Destroyer. 



I have been much interested in read- 

 ing the answers to correspondents in the 

 Review. White fly is a name that I 

 shall not soon forget. In some sections 

 here, in Florida, the orange groves have 

 been badly injured by it. 



Only a few days ago I saw an adver- 

 tisement of a white fly destroyer called 

 the Target Brand. I got some and used 

 it in my greenhouse, on salvias, agera- 

 tums, etc. It knocked out the fly, but 

 burned some of the tender foliage. I 



think it is worthy of some careful ex- 

 periments, and I should like to see such 

 experiments reported in the Review^. 

 The Target Brand White Fly Destroyer 

 is made by the American Horticultural 

 Distributing Co., Martinsburg, W. Va., 

 and is furnished at the following prices: 

 One gallon, 75 cents; five gallons, $3.50; 

 ten gallons, $7. It is to be mixed with 

 water in the proportion of one gallon of 

 the destroyer to thirty or forty gallons 

 of water. F. A. White. 



Prospering. 



I have just entered upon my second 

 year in the florists ' business and I want 

 to tell you that I attribute my success 



The Kdltor Is pleased 

 \7hen a Reader 

 presents bis Ideas 

 on any subject treated in 



cV^ 



As experience is tbe best 

 teacher, so do ^^e 

 learn fastest by an 

 exchange of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brouKht out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and gram- 

 mar, though desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 doing your best. 



WK SHALL BK GLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM TOO. 



largely to the Review. One of my best 

 investments was to buy my predecessor 's 

 old Reviews, so that, by studying "Sea- 

 sonable Suggestions, ' ' I might keep a lit- 

 tle ahead of my work, and whenever I 

 am in doubt on a subject I can nearly 

 always find light by looking long enough. 

 I have secured the services of John 

 Earsom as florist at the greenhouses and 



1 give my time to the constantly in- 

 creasing downtown business. We will 

 erect two more houses this season for 

 carnations and ferns. 



Mrs. R. S. Estill. - 



POINSETTIAS. 



You should have your old plants of 

 poinsettia, that have been resting since 

 New Year's, out from under the bench. 

 Shake oft' all the old soil, shorten back 

 the stem only when or where it is still 

 green or decayed and repot in a size 

 smaller. Start growing in a tempera- 

 ture of 60 degrees, with frequent 

 syringing!-:. They will soon start and 

 break into new growth, which will give 

 you plenty of material for cuttings. Al- 

 though May, or even April, is the right 

 time to start, yet there is plenty of time 

 for cuttings, for the very early struck 

 cuttings become quite tall and often 

 much pot-bound and then lose their 

 foliage. Those propagated in July make 

 fine plants, either for pots or planting 

 out for cutting, and as late as August 

 and even September will do well for 

 pans. Last Christmas it was found that 

 the single plant in a 5-inch or Ji-inch 

 pot is no longer the thing. Nearly every- 

 one wanted a pan with from five to eight 

 low plants. 



THE AMLING PLANT. 



One of the greenhouse centers west of 

 Chicago is Maywood. It is a town of 

 about 5,000 people and has a larger 

 proportion of florists than almost any 

 community of similar size in the west. 

 There are eight or nine growers there, 

 five of them right in one neighborhood 

 west of town that is locally known as 

 Sweetpeaville. The largest of these five 

 growers is Albert F. Amling, whose es- 

 tablishment is shown in the foreground 

 of the accompanying illustration. Back 

 of the Amling range can be seen the 

 places of Hugo Luedtke and Henry 

 Wehrman. Just out of range of the cam- 

 era is the glass of Wm. Collate and H. 

 Wictendahl. 



Mr. Amling is perhaps best known as 

 a grower of green goods but, while he 

 makes asparagus and smilax a specialty, 

 it is by no means to the exclusion of 

 other profitable items. He has a range 

 of approximately 80,000 feet of glass. 

 There are eight high houses devoted to 

 the climbing greens. These are shown 



