January 16, 1008. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



THE KING^ CARNATIONS. 



Mackenzie & Moncor, the well-known 

 British horticultural builders, are at pres- 

 ent erecting three new carnation houses 

 at Sandringham, England, King Ed- 

 ward's favorite residence, to be devoted 

 to carnations grown in benches on the 

 American plan. Several houses have j)re- 

 viously been devoted to their culture, 

 the plants, however, being all pot-grown. 

 Queen Alexandra is specially fond of 

 carnations and all the best American 

 sorts are grown, in addition to quantities 

 of Malmaisons. King Edward's favorite 

 flower is the violet and at Sandringham 

 an effort is made to supply these every 

 day in the year. W. N. C. 



STIGMONOSE ON CARNATIONS. 



Will you kindly tell us what is the mat- 

 ter with plants of carnations like the 

 sample enclosed and what to do for* 

 them? How often shall we use fertilizer? 

 How shall we put it on, and what quan- 

 tity? M.C.J. 



Your plants are badly affected with 

 the disease called stigmonose, which has 

 been described a number of times re- 

 cently and treatment outlined. See the Re- 

 view of October 3, 1907, page 9, under 

 the head of "Punctures by l&sects. " 



When you should begin feeding your 

 plants and in what manner will depend 

 altogether on the condition of the plants 

 and the soil. If the soil is becoming ex- 

 hausted you can use bone meal, sheep 

 manure, cow manure and wood ashes to 

 good advantage, providing you feed very 

 lightly. Follow the same course as out- 

 lined for E. M. in this issue. 



A. F. J. B. 



SMALL BLOOMS, BROWN LEAVES. 



I am sending under separate cover 

 some carnation blooms; also a few leaves 

 from T. W. Lawson that are brown at 

 the tips. Can you tell me what is 

 wrong with the. carnation blooms and 

 what is the cause of the leaves being in 

 that condition? In the same house with 

 the pink Lawson from which the af- 

 fected leaves were taken we have White 

 Lawson and Lady Bountifyl, which seem 

 to be all right. We use cayenne pepper 

 once each week for thrips. I thought 

 that perhaps that had burned the leaves. 

 Would tobacco fumigating cause the same 

 trouble? We run Lawson about 53 de- 

 grees at night and the others about 50 

 degrees. We ventilate all we can. 



I am also sending a sample of the soil 

 in which they are growing. Would there 

 be anything in the soil that would cause 

 either the leaves or blooms to come as 

 you find the specimens? I have given 

 them a dressing of hardwood ashes and 

 lime twice. Do you think they are suf- 

 fering from a Lack of sufficient plant 

 food, as they are coming smaller now 

 than they did earlier in the fall ? E, M. 



The specimens you sent were badly 

 frozen on the way and did not disclose 

 as much as they would have done had 

 they been fresh. The leaves appear to 

 have been burned by the tobacco fumes. 

 The blooms and buds looked as though 

 they had been injured by thrips, though 

 their frozen condition makes this some- 

 what doubtful. 



The soil you sent along is of a very 

 light texture and would become exhausted 

 early in the season, necessitating light 

 feeding regularly by this * time. No 

 doubt that is why your blooms are com- 



Leonard K IL 



ing small. I would advise you to begin 

 a systematic course of light feeding, to 

 be followed faithfully during the rest of 

 the season. Use bone meal, sheep ma- 

 nure, cow manure and hardwood ashes or 

 lime. Apply the cow manure either as a 

 liquid or as a mulch, and the others as 

 a top dressing. Apply them in rotation 

 and at intervals of ten days between 

 each application. You will soon see an 

 improvement in the size of your blooms, 

 but be careful not to overdo it. If you 

 notice the blooms getting scift or keep- 

 ing poorly, then break off feeding at 

 once. Give all the air you can, and in 

 fact do all you can to combat the ill 

 effects of the feeding. A. F. J. B. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



H. W. Field, Northampton, Mass., reg- 

 isters Carnation President Seelye, a pure 

 white seedling from Mrs. Thos. W. Law- 

 son and Queen. 



Henry Eichholz, Waynesboro, Pa., reg- 

 isters Carnation Mrs. E. T. Omwake, a 

 light pink sport of Enchantress, register- 

 ed subject to the approval of the so- 

 ciety. Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



PRESIDENT KILL. 



The year 1908 promises to be the most 

 important in the history of the Chicago 

 Florists' Club. In March the club will 

 be called upon to entertain the American 

 Rose Society, and in November it will 

 have an important part in the work of 

 the national flower show of the Society 

 of American Florists, with hundreds of 

 trade visitors to look out for. For such 



a year no better president could have 

 been selected than Leonard Kill, who was 

 elected to the office January 9. Mr. Kill 

 is one of the younger generation of flo- 

 rists and endowed with the young man's 

 capacity for dispatching much work. He 

 has been for some years the manager of 

 the selling end of the business of Peter 

 Reinberg and has been actively asso- 

 ciated with many trade enterprises. He 

 is a member of the executive committee 

 of the Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 and also a member of the S. A. F. and 

 the Carnation Society. 



Mr. KiU enjoys a somewhat unique 

 distinction, and one that he never fails 

 to mention whenever the subject of age 

 is brought up. He was born in a barn, 

 and he is proud of it. His nativity oc- 

 curred just after the Chicago fire, when 

 his father and mother lost everything 

 they possessed and even were separated, 

 each thinking the other dead, for more 

 than two weeks. Later they and another 

 family erected a rough board building, 

 afterward used as a barn, amid the ruins 

 at the corner of Kinzie and Market 

 streets, and made it their home for some 

 months. Here Mr. Kill was born May 5, 

 1872. He married into floriculture, Mrs. 

 Kill being a sister of Mrs. Eeinberg and 

 of Mrs. Adam Zender, and related to 

 the Weiland, Wietor and other families, 

 well known and long engaged in the 

 trade. 



Ottawa, Kan. — At the Lester Green- 

 houses a new house has just been com- 

 pleted, 21i/ox86 feet. Christmas trade 

 here was good. 



