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October 8, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



move to cooler quarters when they have 

 broken freely. The plants should be 

 headed back before you start them, al- 

 though some prefer to wait until they 

 break. A temperature of 48 to 50 de- 

 grees at night will be ample, once they 

 are started. Shake out and repot them 

 as soon as they break. For compost, use 

 fibrous loam, old hotbed or cow manure 



and sand; some well-rotted leaf-mold 

 may also be added. Keep the plants 

 carefully pinched and all flowers removed 

 until three weeks before you want them 

 in bloom. 



Cuttings taken in March will make 

 excellent plants in 6-inch or 7-inch pots 

 for September or October blooming. 



-'• C. W. 



KEROSENE EMULSION. 



"Will you kindly tell me through the 

 columns of your paper how to make kero- 

 sene emulsion that will not injure palms 

 and ferns? I used the following for- 

 mula, found in Taf t 's ' * Greenhouse Man- 

 agement": Two ounces soap, one gallon 

 water, one pint kerosene and dilute six- 

 teen times. I put this in tub and dipped 

 palms in it to get rid of scale. I guess 

 they got. The palms did. L. C. B. 



Kerosene emulsion is not a safe rem- 

 edy to apply to palms and ferns, from 

 the fact that unless the emulsion is per- 

 fectly compounded there will be found 

 some free kerosene, and this oil is bound 

 to injure the foliage to which it is ap- 

 plied. I would not advise anyone to use 

 this preparation on tender plants, but 

 prefer a solution of whale-oil soap, or 

 ivory soap, or one of the various tobacco 

 soaps for this purpose. Lemon oil solu- 

 tion is also much used for scale upon 

 palms, and when applied carefully gives 

 good results. W. H. T. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



MenHon Your Ezprets Company. 



The \:riter believes that the Keview 

 would confer a favor on buyers by ad- 

 vising them to be sure to mention, in all 

 orders for shipments of stock, what ex- 

 press company they wish to handle the 

 goods. In our town we have six differ- 

 ent express companies, and when we call 

 up any of them to find out what com- 

 pany runs through some customer's town 

 they are not overparticular about telling 

 us, if it does not happen to be their 

 company, but they are likely to say, 

 "We can handle it all right for you." 

 The result may be that the package will 

 go over two lines, thus increasing the 

 cost to the buyer. About one buyer out 

 of six mentions the express company 

 when ordering, F. R. Thornton. 



THE BEST SWEET PEAS. 



The National Sweet Pea Society of 

 England recommends the following as the 

 best varieties in the various shades of 

 color : 



White, Dorothy Eckford, Etta Dyke 

 and Nora Unwin; crimson and scarlet. 

 Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII ; 

 rose and carmine, John Ingman; yellow 

 and buflF, James Grieve and Paradise 

 Ivory; blue. Lord Nelson and A. J. 



Cook; blush, Mrs. Hardeastle Sykes; 

 cerise, Chrissie Unwin; pink, Countess 

 Spencer and Constance Oliver; orange 

 shades, Helen Lewis and St. George; 

 lavender, Lady Grisel Hamilton and 

 Frank Dolby; violet and purple, Rosie 

 Adams; magenta, Menie Christie; pico- 

 tee-edged, Evelyn Hemus; fancy, Sybil 

 Eckford; mauve, Mrs. Walter Wright 

 and The Marquis; maroon and bronze, 

 Black Knight and Hannah Dale; striped 

 and flaked, red and rose, Jessie Cuth- 

 bertson, Paradise and Red Flake; bi- 

 color, Jeannie Gordon; marbled, Helen 

 Pierce. 



LOST CHECK. 



Please inform us as to responsibility 

 for checks lost in the mail; that is, in 

 the ordinary course of business a florist 

 receives a check on a bank in a city dis- 



fSVERY now and then a well 

 ■9 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of bringing a new 

 advertiser to 



P 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name ci anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist^ use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Cazton Bldg. Chicago 



tant from the bank in which he deposits 

 and the check is lost in the mails. We 

 wish to know who is responsible for the 

 loss, the depositor or the bank in which 

 deposited. N. E. B. 



When a check upon one bank is de- 

 posited in another the deposit may be 

 ' ' for collection, " or it may be in such 

 form as to transfer title to the collect- I 



ing bank. If the collecting bank owns 

 the check, having recourse to the de- 

 positor only as an indorser in case of 

 non-payment, then a loss in the mails is 

 a loss of property belonging to the 

 bank. If the bank takes the paper 

 merely as an agent for its collection, the 

 duty of the bank, like that of other 

 agents, is to use due care and diligence 

 in making the collection. If the check 

 is lost in spite of such care, the bank is 

 not liable; if it is lost through lack of 

 such care, the bank is liable. To send 

 a check through the mails is not negli- 

 gence, in itself, and the bank cannot be 

 held if all the precautions were taken 

 for safe delivery or return that a pru- 

 dent business man takes when he is deal- 

 ing with his own business. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Trade Conditions. 



Carnations and roses are the staple 

 flowers in the market here at present, but 

 with a few days of cooPweather the van- 

 guard of the mums will make its appear- 

 ance and from now until after Thanks- 

 giving the queen of autumn wiU hold fall 

 ?way. Funeral work has kept the deal- 

 ers busy, but social functions will soon 

 make demands that will add materially to 

 the work. 



Club Meeting. 



At the first meeting of the Rhode Is- 

 land Florists' and Gardeners' Club for 

 the winter season there was a large at- 

 tendance and much enthusiasm. There 

 was a general discussion of the trade con- 

 ditions and the outlook for various crops, 

 while descriptions of the vacation trips 

 of the members occupied much time and 

 furnished much entertainment. It was 

 voted to inaugurate a series of essays 

 during the winter, similar to that of last 

 year, which will furnish trade subjects 

 for discussion. Eugene McCarron and 

 Bernard F. Quinn were elected to mem- 

 bership. 



Various Notes. 



William C. Young has opened a retail 

 flower store at 316 Broad street. 



William B. Hazard, 112 Westminster 

 street, has been making a novel and at- 

 tractive advertising display of dahlias at 

 his store, by which he has stimulated a 

 considerable demand for these blooms. 

 One long counter was covered with white 

 cotton batting, on which were the numer- 

 ous varieties of cut blooms of all classes, 

 and from these the sales were made. 

 Thousands of blooms were thus disposed 

 of every day. 



Herbert Allen Leach, junior member of 

 the firm of Michael J. Leach & Son, of 

 Pawtucket, and Mary Elvira MacAIIen 

 were married September 24 at the home 

 oi E. W. Orswell, Pawtucket, Rev. Frank 

 Appleton ofliciating. While both the con- 

 tracting parties are well known, the cere- 

 mony was a quiet one, only the immediate 

 members of the families being present. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Leach left for New York 

 city, where they will remain for several 

 weeks. 



At the seventy-seventh annual fair of 

 the American Institute, recently held at 

 New York, George L. Stillman, a West- 

 erly dahlia grower, received six speciKi 

 and two second premiums on his exhibi- 

 tion of dahlias. At the Vermont State 

 Fair, held at White River Junction a few 

 days ago, Mr. Stillman took two first 

 prizes on his exhibit of dahlias. 



W. H. M. 



