Febbuabt 27, 1908. 



The Weekly Rorists* Review. 



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I will name in each color first the ones 

 Tvhich we consider best, etc., as follows: 

 White — White Perfection, White En- 

 chantress, Vesper, Lady Bountiful. Light 

 Pink — Enchantress, Fair Maid. Bose- 

 pink — rRose-pink Enchantress, Winsor. 

 Dark Pink — Pink Imperial, Aristocrat, 

 Lawson, Bed — Victory, Red Chief, Bea- 

 con. Crimson — Crimson Glow, Harlowar- 

 den, H. Penn. 



Any of the above varieties will pay 

 you well for the space they will take up 

 on your benches, and any one of them 

 might strike your fancy better than all 

 the others in its color. You will notice 

 that I have mentioned none of this year 's 

 novelties. You would do well to try 

 some of them, in a limited way. 



A. F. J. B. 



WORMS ON CARNATIONS. 



I have been troubled with certain 

 worms that work mostly at night and re- 

 semble the commJon garden cutworm. 

 When grown they are from an inch to 

 an inch and a half long. I have tried 

 nicotine extracts at a good strength 

 without killing them, and find no way 

 of getting rid of them except by pick- 

 ing, but when so small it is hard work 

 finding them, especially on carnations. 

 I shall be very grateful if any one can 

 tell me of some sure way of getting rid 

 of them without hurting the plants. 



E.G. 



The worms you complain of are com- 

 mon and most carnation growers have 

 had more or less experience with them. 

 They belong to the cutworm family, only 

 they work in the top of the plants in- 

 stead of at the base. Hand picking is a 

 sure remedy if you can catch them all, 

 but as they feed mostly at night, that 

 is a tiresome job. A better way is to 

 bait and poison them. Take ordinary 

 wheat bran, mix with it enough sugar- 

 cane molasses to moisten it and then add 

 to this enough Paris green to make it 

 deadly. Drop a little di this around 

 where you know they are, and you will 

 soon be rid of them. Repeat this a few 

 times, until you see no more signs of 

 them. This will also get rid of wood 

 lice, or sow bugs, if you are troubled 

 with them. A. F. J, B. 



SPLIT ENCHANTRESS. 



We send you, under separate cover, 

 buds from our Enchantress carnations. 

 Over sixty per cent are splitting. The 

 night temperature in this house is be- 

 tween 48 and 52 degrees; the day tem- 

 perature is from 65 to 70 degrees on 

 clear days and 58 or 60 degrees on cloudy 

 days. We have in the same house White 

 Perfection, Cardinal, Queen Louise and 

 Fenn, which have had the same treat- 

 ment. Queen Louise is splitting at the 

 rate of about twenty per cent. White 

 Perfection and Aristocrat do not split at 

 all. Of Fenn and Cardinal not over five 

 per cent are split. This temperature has 

 been maintained since January 1. The 

 plants have been fed but once, which was 

 three weeks ago, on ground bone. In 

 November and December we kept them 

 pretty dry and the temperature at night 

 often ran to 56 degrees, but we had few 

 splits. Our soil is light and dries out 

 quickly, and I thought they had been 

 checked by keeping them dry, so I have 

 been giving them much more water since 

 the first of the year. J. C. N. 



The specimens came to hand in a bad- 

 ly frozen condition and therefore did not 



J. K. Men. 



disclose as much as they would likely 

 have if fresh. I could see that every 

 bud had a burst calyx, and they all had 

 the appearance of inferior Enchantress. 

 The size of the buds and of the stems 

 was not that of average quality En- 

 chantress. In fact, the whole bunch 

 looked as we sometimes see occasional 

 plants of Enchantress; plants which 

 seem to have lost their vitality and are 

 unable to produce good blooms. Some- 

 times these plants will be full of yellow 

 spots, but at other times they simply lack 

 that gray "bloom" we like to see on our 

 carnation plants and have a light, yellow- 

 ish green color instead. It may be that 

 your stock has lost its vigor from im- 

 proper cutting selection or some other 

 cause and this inferior bloom is the re- 

 sult. 



Your temperature is all right, and if 

 your other varieties all are doing well 

 the trouble cannot be laid to your gen- 

 eral treatment. In fact, all these cir- 

 cumstances would indicate weakness in 

 your stock. Unless you can select cut- 

 tings from plants which produce good 

 blooms, I would advise you to buy new 

 stock from someone who has vigorous 

 plants, in good health. A. F. J. B. 



THE SIX O'CLOCK ROOSTER. 



The crest of J. K. Allen, the New 

 York wholesaler, is no lion sejant, but 

 a rooster rampant, on a rose leaf, for 

 Mr. Allen takes pride in the fact that he 

 has been at his store, ready for business, 

 * ' every morning at 6 o 'clock ' ' for twenty 

 years. During these two decades he has 

 not only won a reputation for prompt- 

 ness and regularity, but has given proof 

 of energy and integrity, necessary qual- 

 ities for the wise management of the 

 finances of the New York Florists' Club, 



which were placed in his hands at the 

 last election. 



While attending strictly to business, 

 Mr. Allen has found time to take an 

 active part in the conduct of public af- 

 fairs in Kearney, N. J., where he makes 

 his home. He is one of the commission- 

 ers of the Carnegie library and has also 

 served on the board of education. For 

 seven years, also, he was a member of 

 the Kearney fire department and was 

 honored at different times with official 

 positions in that organization. 



Mr. Allen was born in Whippany, Mor- 

 ris county, N. J., about fifty years ago, 

 ana was educated in the public schools 

 of Morristown. Before beginning his re- 

 markable twenty-year record for early- 

 morning promptness in his own business, 

 he was employed for several years at 

 Joseph Towell's, in Paterson, N. J. 



Mr. Allen is a member of the F. & A. 

 Masons of Arlington and also of the 

 Royal Arcanum. 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW. 



As was reported in the Review two 

 weeks ago, Chairman W^. F. Kasting, of 

 the committee of fifty for the national 

 flower show, has called a meeting of that 

 body at Chicago March 26, and Secre- 

 tary J. H. Burdett has now sent out the 

 formal notice. The meeting is to be held 

 during the exhibition of the American 

 Rose Society. 



The premium Ust is not yet complete, 

 but will be issued before the meeting of 

 the committee. The arrangement of the 

 list has been the greatest undertaking of 

 this character ever put upon the shoul- 

 ders of any committee, for with the innu- 

 merable special premiums it certainly 

 will be the greatest premium list ever 

 issued for a flower show anywhere in the 

 world. 



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