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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTUBHB 31, lOOT. 



YELLOW TOUSET. 



Oi" all the early chrysauthemunis none 

 was more universally grown this season 

 than Clementine Touset. It is jone of 

 the finest of earlf sorts, of whatever 

 color, an easy doer with all growers, and 

 the news that there is a bright yellow 

 sport of Touset will be welcome to all 

 who have made money on the original 

 variety this year. The yellow sport 

 originated with F. D. Cramer, at Han- 

 over, Pa. It is the Touset in every par- 

 ticular, size, form, foliage and stem, 

 as well as habit of growth, differing 

 only in ■color, which is about the shade 

 of Halliday. Mr. Cramer has supplied 

 stock of this variety to the E, G. Hill 

 Co., Eichmond, Ind., for test next sea- 

 son. If it comes up to expectations it 

 will be put on the m&rket in 1909. 



PACaFIC SUPREME. 



Pacific Supreme is one of the seasou's 

 uovelties of Nathan Smith & Son, 

 Adrian, Mich. It was exhibited at 

 Philadelphia, October 26, when the seed- 

 ling committee of the C. S. A. scored it 

 87 points on the commercial scale. The 

 color is intermediate between Glory of 

 Pacific and William Duckham. It is a 

 delicate shade and yet sufficiently illumi- 

 nated so that it may be allowed to 

 develop without danger of the fading 

 which injures so many pinks. The flower 

 easily attains to six inches in diameter 

 and the one photographe<l was cut 

 October 20. The height is three and 

 one-half feet. The foliage closely re- 

 sembles Glory of Pacific, but the variety 

 is freer in growth. 



WHITE FLY ON MUMS. 



1 am somewhat surprised to see such 

 frequent inquiries in regard to the white 

 Ay; not that it is a thing to be lightly 

 considered, but from experience in fol- 

 lowing suggestions and instructions 

 Siven by the Review, I believe that any 

 orist, of much or little experience, can 

 keep his place clean. 



Until recently I have always used to- 

 bacco for fumigating and my success 

 was never satisfactory; such frequent 

 applications kept something marked all 

 the time. 



I had estimated a number of times 

 for sulphuric acid and cyanide of potas- 

 sium, but the cost looked out of propor- 

 tion to the benefit to be derived; so I 

 sent for tobacco stems or powder, and 

 still had a good supply of pests. This 

 fall the white flies were so numerous that 

 tobacco seemed a worthless waste of 

 time and money. 



I have a house 53x55 feet, four feet 

 and a half to the plate and valley, with 

 three ridges, all connected, and I raise 

 a general line of plants and flowery, such 

 as are handled in a rural district. In 

 the flrst part of the winter I grow let- 

 tuce in all my spare room. 



Four weeks ago my mums were black 

 with aphides for a space of six or eight 

 inches down the stem, and a covey of 

 white flies met me at almost every step. 



The eonditiuii warranted drastic meas- 

 ures. I purchased one gallon of com- 

 mercial sulphirric acid for 75 cents and 

 twenty ounces of cyanide of potassium 

 and prepared eight jars as per formula. 

 This quantity, I believe, is quite a little 

 below what lias been recommended. 



It is now thirty days since this treat- 

 ment and still 1 fail to find green, black 

 or white fly, or spider, or house fly, or 

 even a band of toads that I was har- 

 boring. Sow bugs alone infest the 

 house and these in their turn will re- 

 ceive their treatment of Paris green, as 

 per the Review. W. L. L. 



LEAF-SPOT ON MUMS. 



Tlie leaf -spot on chrysanthemums, long 

 known to American growers, has only 

 recently become common in England. 

 The disease can be recognized by the 



presence of more or less rounded spots 

 of varying size on the upper surface of 

 the leaf. These spots soon turn to a 

 dark reddish-brown, and these dark 

 patches, which consist of diseased tissue, 

 besides disfiguring the plantj render the 

 leaves unable to carry on their proper 

 functions; and the plant in consequence 

 becomes weakened in vitality. When 

 the fungus produces its fructification, 

 little black dots become visible scat- 

 tered over the discolored areas ol the 

 leaf. 



The disease was at first observed about 

 1890 in Italy, in the Botanic Gardens 

 at Pavia and elsewhere. Briosi and 

 Cavara state: "We have for several 

 years in succession observed this para- 

 site in the autumn just when the chrys- 

 anthemum is about to flower. The leaves 

 which are affected by it, besides bearing 

 brown patches, become* crumpled at the 

 margins, and fall prematurely." 



In the United States, Dr. Halsted 

 wrote of the disease as follows, in 1891 

 and 1894: "A blight has been quite 

 prevalent upon the leaves of the chrys- 

 anthemum, blotching them with brown 

 until they wither and fall away. Mois- 

 ture favors the development of these 

 spots. Some varieties seem to be more 

 subject to the blight than others, but 



Chrysanthemum Pacific Supreme. 



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