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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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The Setting Sun. 



recovery is less complete each day, until 

 the branch remains wilted. Usually one 

 branch after another is attacked until 

 the plant is ruined, and the trouble is not 

 checked by removing the first branch 

 showing the disease. The plants are 

 grown in a light, airy house with car- 

 nations, which are perfectly healthy. Is 

 it necessary to spray foliage of antir- 

 t-hinums to prevent red spider? I have 

 never seen spider on it and do not wet 

 the foliage. E. C. B. 



The wilting you refer to is quite com- 

 mon with antirrhinums lifted from the 

 open ground and planted in benches. It 

 will also sometimes occur on plants 

 grown in pots, but less frequently than 

 in the case of the lifted stock. The 

 cause is rather hard to determine. I 

 think an excess of moisture at the roots 

 before the plants become well established 

 is the chief cause. 



If the snapdragons, after planting, 

 receive one thorough soaking they should 

 be allowed to dry out fairly well before 

 any more watering is done and the sur- 

 face soil scratched over to let air in. 

 Light sprayings overhead twice or three 

 times a day will keep the foliage stiflf. 



In planting it is well to get small 

 balls with antirrhinums. They do not 

 lift so well as carnations. I have never 

 seen them attacked by red spider and 

 have had no occasion to syringe, with the 



object of combating that pest. Light 

 sprayings on clear days in winter and 

 spring are, however, beneficial. A car- 

 nation temperature, such as yon have, 

 should suit antirrhinums well. C. W. 



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NEW YORK. 



The Horticultural Society of New York 

 gave its exhibition in the Museum of 

 Natural History November 17 to 20, and, 

 notwithstanding almost complete lack of 

 recognition by the big daily newspapers 

 of New York, nearly 10,000 visitors en- 

 joyed the show, and were loud in praise 

 of its extent and perfection. This indi- 

 cates what would have been the apprecia- 



tion had any effort been made by the 

 press to let New Yorkers know of the 

 feast that had been spread for them. W. 

 E. Marshall made a competent manager. 

 The space allotted the society was lim- 

 ited and, as F. E. Piersoh said, if the 

 show had been advertised the crush would 

 have been beyond accommodation. An- 

 other year, with the whole lower floor 

 of the great museum utilized, a flower 



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