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Field of Narcissus Barri G>iupicuus at Portsmouth, Va. 



Tidewater region were particularly favor- 

 able to the growth of narcissi, tulips, 

 gladioli, iris, peonies, etc. Starting four 

 years ago with five acres, last season the 

 firm had thirty-five acres planted with 

 these bulbs, which presented a fine, 

 healthy appearance. This season an ad- 



ditional fifteen acres will be planted. The 

 firm asserts that one great point in favor 

 of Virginia-grown bulbs is the fact that, 

 given the same treatment as Dutch bulbs, 

 the Virginian bulbs will flower at least 

 ten days earlier, thus saving time and 

 fuel and finding a better market. 



PUNCTURES BY INSECTS. 



Inclosed are a few leaves from Lawson 

 and White Enchantress carnations which 

 are now housed and have become thus 

 affected since taken from the field. They 

 were in perfect health when in the open. 

 Kindly inform me as to the cause and 

 remedy of the disease. E. L. B. 



The leaves sent show unmistakable 

 signs of a bad case of red spider, and 

 also a few light spots caused by stig- 

 monose. The. latter may be caused by 

 the former, but most likely it was caused 

 uy aphis, possibly previous to the pres- 

 ent season. 



The spider you can get rid of at once 

 by spraying the plants every bright day 

 for a short period with a sharp spray 

 from the hOse, from both sides of the 

 bed if ~ possible. Be careful, however, 

 that you do not get the soil too wet, 

 and also be sure the plants dry off well 

 before night. The days are getting 

 shorter and the sfln we&kef ; hence "evapo- 

 ration is less rapid and , there is more 

 danger of leaf-spot and kindred dis- 



eases, usually brought on by too much 

 moisture and stagnation. 



The stigmonose is not so easy to get 

 rid of, but can be worked out of the 

 stock by careful selection of cuttings and 

 sane culture. When taking cuttings for 

 next season's stock, take them from 

 plants that show none of these spots. 

 Root them cool and when rooted pot into 

 new soil which is not too rich and set in 

 a cool house of about 48 to 50' degrees. 

 Shift as may be needed and see to it 

 that they do not get a check from any 

 cause, such as too much or too little 

 water, too rich soil, or from starvation. 

 The following season there will likely be 

 less of the disease, though it will hardly 

 disappear altogether that soon. It will 

 •likely require the same careful selection 

 for from three "to five years to rid your 

 stock of it entirely. 



In view of the rapid superseding of 

 one variety by a better one tliese days, 

 one would be inclined to doubt the wis- 

 dom of spending so much labor on reju- 

 venating a run-down variety, and in 

 many cases it would be economy to dis- 

 card it and stock up with a new variety 

 in gox)d health.' But when there is not 

 a variety to be had to immediately take 



its place it will pay well for the trouble. 

 If you are obliged to grow a variety you 

 should bend every effort to have it as 

 strong and robust as possible while you 

 are growing it. 



Your this year 's plants will show these 

 spots to some extent in spite of any- 

 thing you may do. Moderate culture 

 will, however, minimize it to some ex- 

 tent. Any undue forcing or feeding 

 will aggravate it and should be carefully 

 avoided. As this disease is started by 

 the pupctures of insects, great care 

 should be taken to keep them off the 

 young plants especially. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



CLUB-ROOT ON CARNATIONS. 



We have a very bad attack of club- 

 root on our carnations. Some clubs have 

 fjrown to the size of the end of your 

 finger. We have seen signs cf it for some 

 three years, but this is the worst of all. 

 We have never used the same soil for 

 two successive years and have never 

 planted our carnations in the field where 

 tliey were grown before. We use a lib- 

 eral quantity of air-slaked lime, both on 

 field and in compost heap. We housed 

 our carnations, six houses in all, and 

 finished planting by August 10. Now, 

 what we want to know is how to get rid 

 ■ of the disease. Is it inheritable through 

 propagations of cuttings? What can we 

 do with our stock, to expect a good cut 

 of flowers? We have applied a heavy 

 sprinkle of lime over the benches. Tlie 

 carnations are growing very nicely, but 

 we have noticed that plants having this 

 disease never make many flowers. 



J. L. O. 



I regret that I cannot give you any 

 advice on your query about club-root on 

 carnations. I have never come across 

 such a thing. I should like to see a 

 plant thus affected. I have often seen 

 individual plants which produced only 



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