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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVBMBBB 14, 1907. 



doubt he was correct in every detail. I 

 have never had the pleasure of seeing 

 such a lovely lot of novelties, and it is 

 most gratifying to know that each year 

 the varieties raised by Mr. Pockett and 

 sent out by myself will uphold our repu- 

 tation for many years to come. 

 Merstham, England. W. Wells. 



TREATMENT FOR CUTVORMS. 



Would you kindly inform us if it 

 would be safe to use hydrocyanic acid 

 gas for the purpose of destroying cater- 

 pillars on mums and carnations? They 

 are found in the bud of the mums, are 

 about half an inch long and are of a 

 brown color. In the carnations the 

 caterpillars are an inch and a quarter 

 in length, dark brown in color and ap- 

 pear only at night, eating a hole in the 

 stem just below the bud. 



We noticed in the Eeview of October 

 24, page 48, that O. E. P. used this acid 

 gas, with damage to his lettuce; there- 

 fore we should like to know if it would 

 injure the blooms on mums and carna- 

 tions. W, F. C. 



The worm is the cutworm, I would say, 

 by the description of it. 1 cannot say 

 whether the gas has any bad effect on 

 the flowers of the mum, never having 

 tried any to see; nor would I care to 

 take the risk, except with a few flowers. 

 If the worm is the cutworm, it will be 

 found in a hole just beneath the surface 

 of the soil, at the base of the plant. 

 Cutworms were very bad with me this 

 year, but a little patience cleaned them 

 all out. Flowers are sensitive to gases, 

 much more so than the foliage, it seems 

 to me, and W. F. C. had better experi- 

 ment on a small scale first. 



Charles H, Totty. 



BEST VARIETIES OF MUMS. 



I intend to grow some new chrysanthe- 

 tnums next year, as the old ones I have 

 are not very good. Would you be so 

 kind as to tell me what the best varieties 

 are to grow in A'irginia for early white, 

 pink and yellow ; then white, pink and 

 yellow to follow the early ones, and then 

 the best late white, pink and yellow? 

 Also name three good kinds to grow 

 outside for small flowers to bunch up and 



sell for 25 cents and 50 cents per bunch, 

 a dozen in a bunch, Norfolk. 



A selection of colors to grow commer- 

 cially is given herewith. I have placed 

 the kinds in the order in which they 

 will flower to give a succession through- 

 out the season. These kinds have given 

 me the best returns financially and none 

 of them is now in the untried novelty 

 class : 



White— Polly Rose, Mrs. A. T. Miller, 

 White Coombes, Beatrice May, Clay Frick, 

 W. H. Chadwick, Jeanne Nonin, Mrs. 

 Swinburne. 



Pink — Pacific, William Duckham, Mor- 

 ton F. Plant, Winter Cheer, Mrs. Mary 

 Mann, Miriam Hankey. 



Yellow — Monrovia, Cheltoni, Mrs. W. 

 Duckham, Col. Appleton, Mrs. Geo. 

 Beech, Yellow Chadwick. 



This will give a selection of color from 

 September 25 to Thanksgiving. There 

 may be local varieties th&t would pos- 

 sibly do better in some localities than 

 these, but they seem generally reliable. 

 I have omitted the Eatons, because with 

 me they are rapidly going back, coming 

 hollow-eyed and very poor this year. 



In pompons for growing outside the 

 following are good: Queen of Whites; 

 Bohemia, yellow; Rose Trevenna and 

 Eynsf ord Gem, jJink, I would suppose also 

 that some of the singles would produce 

 gloriously outside in Virginia. 



Charles H. Totty. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



[The address of President Loveless before the 

 rhrysanthemum Society of America at New 

 VorJc November 0.] 



When you chose me for your president 

 at the Chicago meeting, it was with some 

 reluctance that I assumed the responsibil- 

 ities of the office, knowing the impor- 

 tance of the work undertaken by this 

 society, and the reputation which had to 

 be maintained: but with the cheerful as- 

 sistance of all the officers, I look back 

 with pleasure on the efforts of the past 

 year. 



United Effort Needed. 



Discouragements we have had, but I 

 think I can with confidence say, that we 

 are in a better and more promising con- 

 dition than we were a year ago, but there 

 is still need for a more general combined 



effort to place the society where it should 

 be, and make it what it stands for, and 

 prof esses. to be — a really national society 

 in every sense of the word. Individual 

 responsibility can alone accomplish this, 

 but the right spirit is still lacking among 

 our membership, and if the society ever 

 expects to maintain its position, every 

 member must be up and doing, and make 

 the growth of the society a personal ob- 

 ligation. 



While we have steadily increased our 

 membership, there are hundreds who 

 should come in and help by their influ- 

 ence, to give impetus to the work of the 

 society. It has been previously impressed 

 upon the society the importance of per- 

 sonal solicitation. I emphasize that rec- 

 ommendation, and woufd also suggest the 

 advisability of making an effort to put 

 our society upon a more national basis. 



Work on Broad Lines. 



I do not believe the best interests of 

 the society can be served by merely hold- 

 ing an annual exhibition in the autumn, 

 as it has a tendency to localize the work 

 in the immediate vicinity where the ex- 

 hibition happens to be held. 



A national society should have broader 

 Unes, and reach out so as to embrace 

 every town in this country, where an ex- 

 hibition of chrysanthemums is held, but 

 this phase of the work can only be un- 

 dertaken when the society has a regular 

 standard membership, to insure sufficient 

 funds to cover any expenses incurred. To 

 this end I would suggest that the various 

 horticultural societies throughout the 

 country be invited to join the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America as auxili- 

 aries, paying the national society an 

 amount to be determined by the member- 

 ship of each individual society, pro rata. 

 By this means every horticultural society 

 in the country can become a part of the 

 national society and be enabled to com- 

 pete for its special premiums, within its 

 own jurisdiction. 



Work of the Committees. 



Every lover of the chrysanthemum 

 should belong to the national society, for 

 when we consider the gradual improve- 

 ment which has taken place in the qual- 

 ity of the flower, and the excellent 

 blooms we see on our exhibition tables 



Odontoglossum Crispum Amesoe. 



