June 24, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Store of Carrie M, Terry* Phoebas, Va. 



direct, you had better look after this 

 yourself. The runners should be care- 

 fully cut off and not pulled or broken, 

 and the oftener you can do this the bet- 

 ter plants you will have when housing 

 time comes around. 



Hunting for Cut ^Torms. 



The cutworms all about here seem to 

 be an unusually good crop, doing much 

 damage to plants of all kinds, even cut- 

 ting down potato stalks nearly as large 

 as a pencil. About the best thing to do 

 now is to go over the patch early every 

 morning with care, and if you have a 

 sharp eye you can nearly always locate 

 where they liave buried themselves, by 

 the leaf or Uvo that they partly bury 

 where they crawl into the ground. As 

 they only go about half an inch or so 

 deep, they are easily located and you 

 can gather them in r.; 

 without ceremony, bii. 

 tire satisfaction. 



Speaking of these j^csts makes me 

 wonder if yuu alw-.ys ipmember to use 

 plenty of salt on your manure — in the 

 stables preferably, but if not there, when 

 making up your compost piles. Salt so 

 used is extremely beneficial in many 

 ways, but chiefly in destroying the white 

 grubs, cutworms, etc., and in preventing 

 the manure from burning, thus saving 

 much of its value. Besides, the salt puts 

 the manure into much better shape for 

 plant food, as it rots it so much more 

 quickly and makes it fine and workable. 

 R. E. Shuphelt. 



1 have a funeral 

 'o your own en- 



TO KILL FLIES. 



No flower store, and no greenhouse, 

 should tolerate the presence of flies. A 

 dilute solution of formaline, two tea- 

 spoonfuls of the commercial forty per 

 cent formaline added to a soup plate 

 filled with water, makes an efficient fly 

 destroyer. Flies go to it to drink, and 

 die, some in the water, others in the 

 neighborhood of the plate. So dilute a 

 solution as that which suffices to keep 

 down the flies is not enough to produce, 

 by the vapor liberated from it, any harm- 

 ful effect on people living in the room. 

 The formaline method is free from the 

 gruesome associations of fly papers and 

 other traps which hold their struggling 

 victims, and it may even be turned to or- 

 namental uses, for the dish may be pro- 



vided with a central wire cage and filled 

 with flowers. Though formaline is poi- 

 sonous to plants as well as to animals, 

 yet, according to Dr. Hill, cut flowers 

 keep well in it. 



TWO GOOD BENCHES. 



The Dailledouze Style. 



The latest benches built by Dailledouze 

 Bros., Flatbush, N. Y., for carnations 

 should be of interest to all who are en-> 

 gaged in bench building. These benches, 

 while they actually are tables with about 

 five inches of soil, are built like solid 

 beds. There are four five-foot benches 

 in each house. First concrete walls some 

 twelve inches high were built and the 

 space between filled in with cinders. 



porting portion of the construction was 

 to provide a recess on each side in which 

 the heating pipes are hung. Dailledouze 

 Bros, have stated that they kept no ac- 

 count of the cost of these benches, and 

 the inference is that they were somewhat 

 expensive to build, but they are practi- 

 cally indestructible. 



Bassett & Wa«hbum Style. 



At Hinsdale, 111., Bassett & Washburn 

 have experimented with pretty nearly all 

 types of bench construction, but have re- 

 turned to a style which few others use 

 and which is thought to have been origi- 

 nated on their place many years ago. 

 They set pecky cypress posts and on top 

 of these run pecky cypress stringers that 

 are 2x4, laid with the 4-inch side up. 

 These stringers are spaced just far 

 enough apart so that one of the ordinary 

 drain tiles just covers from center to 

 center of the inside stringers, coming out 

 flush with the outside stringers. On top 

 of the tiles a 6-inch side board is run to 

 confine the soil. These benches are not 

 specially expensive. The drain tiles cost 

 $14 to $15 per thousand and never wear 

 out. The pecky cypress stringers do not 

 rot and some of those in use have been 

 in the benches for many years. Neither 

 do the posts give out; the only part of 

 the bench which has to be renewed is the 

 side pieces, which rot in time. 



IN VIRGINIA. 



Phoebus, down by Old Point Comfort, 

 in Virginia, does not lay claim to being 

 a metropolis, but its florist, Carrie Mon- 

 roe Terry, does a first-class business. As 

 in so many of the resort towns in the his- 

 toric region on lower Chesapeake bay, the 

 local demand is increasing, and the vis- 

 itors generally are flower buyers. In the 

 accompanying illustration Mrs. Terry's 

 store is shown, with the windows in which 

 she makes her display of plants and 

 flowers. Last winter Mrs. Terry gave an 



E PLOWEB STORE,"--- Mellen, near Curry; 

 Phone your order (138) if in a hurry! 

 Ploral designs too numerous to mention. 

 Created with skill and careful attention ; 

 Orders on short notice filled with speed 

 At reasonable prices to meet every need ; 

 Cut flowers. Hoses and Carnations 

 Always in stock at market quotations. 



"The Flower Store'' 

 MRS. C. M. TERRY 



207 Mellen St. Phoebus, Virginia 



Advertising Card Used by a Virginia Florist. 



Across the bed thus formed ordinary 

 4-inch drain tiles were laid end to end, 

 so that they projected some two inches 

 or so over the concrete side walls. Then 

 upon the edges of this solid flooring of 

 drain tiles a 6-inch side wall of concrete 

 was put up. The soil was then filled in 

 upon the tiles as upon an ordinary bench 

 bottom. The effect of having the bench 

 four to five inches wider than the sup- 



order to the Weathered Co., of Jersey 

 City, for a greenhouse, by means of which 

 she is increasing her supply, and says the 

 business is this season better than ever. 

 Mrs. Terry is a believer in advertising, 

 and uses the accompanying rhyme, printed 

 in many different styles of display cards, 

 for bringing her store and her stock to 

 the attention of her people. 



