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1 he Weekly Morists' Kevicw. 



Apkil 2, 1908. 



The webs you say are woven by red 

 spider, are probably those of the com- 

 mon bouse spiders. Pressure of water 

 through a fine spray nozzle in your house 

 will clean these away. 



Cinerarias at all times require cool 

 culture and will not stand much sunshine. 

 Forty-five degrees at night in winter is 

 ample. A moist atmosphtere is quite to 

 their liking. If fresh tobacco stems are 

 packed among the pots every fortnight, 

 it will keep green aphis in check. This 

 is the only pest which is partial to these 

 plants. A fumigation once a week, in 

 addition, should ensure absolute freedom 

 from insect attacks. C. W. 



PLANTS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT. 



An interesting exhibit was made by 

 David King, nurseryman, Murrayfield, 

 Edinburgh, at the March meeting of the 

 Scottish Horticultural Association. Mr. 

 King, having had electric light installed 

 in one of his forcing houses, for even- 

 ing work in busy seasons, placed four 

 lilacs in the house in similar conditions. 

 Two of them were exposed nightly to 

 the electric light (twenty-five candle pow- 

 er incandescent lamps) and two were 

 shaded during the night from the arti- 

 ficial light, with the result, according to 

 the Horticultural Trade Journal, that 

 the two plants exposed to the light were 

 a mass of snowy white flowers, and the 

 two which had been shaded covered with 

 green buds only. Four azaleas, also 

 shown, had been treated in the same way 

 with the same results. 



Smith's Mum Manual sent by the Ee- 

 TiKw for 40 cents. 



I BNJOY the Eevuw very much and 

 would not like to be without it.— W. D 

 Heslam, Fitchburg, Mass. 



A LARGE FUNERAL. 



Possibly the biggest funeral, from a 

 florist's standpoint, that has occurred in 

 this section of the country for years, was 

 that of Miss Lydia Baker, daughter of 

 Hon. Judge Baker, of Wilkesburg. The 

 floral decorations were handled by J. W 

 f^l}^ J^ Son, the pioneer florists of 

 Wilkesburg. The young lady had been 

 extremely popular among the younger set 

 in Wilkesburg, Canton and the surround- 

 ing towns. The floral tributes ordered 

 included many of the ordinary set pieces, 

 but there were a number of original ideas 

 of customers to be followed out. The 

 funeral was on Wednesday morning and 

 Smith & Son had booked a large number 

 of orders Monday afternoon. Mondav 

 evening the elder Mr. Smith and Mr 

 Snnth, Jr., looked over the order book 

 and figured up the amount of roses, car- 

 nations, valley, lilies, greens, etc., that 

 they would need. They were surprised 

 to find that the quantity of stock re- 

 quired much exceeded what they had 

 roughly figured upon. The source of sup- 

 ply for such a quantity of stock was a 

 serious matter and only second in im- 

 portance to securing a good, fresh grade 

 of flowers. After some discussion Mr. 

 Smith, Sr., remarked: "Jim, you had 

 better wire the whole order to Peter 

 Reinberg and we will have the satisfac- 

 tion of knowing that we will get good 

 fresh stock and get it on time." Mr 

 Smith 's idea was shown to be correct bv 

 Jim 8 remark after the orders had ail 

 been delivered: "Dad always said you 

 were playing safe by ordering from Peter 

 Reinberg, and I guess he is right. ' '— Adv 



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The number of visitors at the Eoyal 

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 dening. The visitors during 1907 num- 

 bered 2,962,714, It is interesting to no- 

 tice that this shows an increase of 623,- 

 222 upon the visitors during 1906. The 

 average number of visitors for the ten 

 years 1893 to 1902 was 1,352,425, so that 

 the record for 1907 was more than dou- 

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 ance for 1903 to 1907 was 2,011,748, the 

 figures for the several years being, re- 

 spectively, 1,352,548, 1,579,666, 1,824,- 

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 Sunday attendance for the same years 

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