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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 5, 1900. 



other scarlet \ariety that possesses any 

 class at all. 



Harvard also ran. It cannot be com- 

 pared with Crimson Glow or Harlowar- 

 den. 



May has made both friends and ene- 

 mies. Some report excellent results, with 

 increased planting for next season, while 

 others report poor success. Our own 

 were not so good as the season before, 

 on account of red spider in the field. 

 With clean plants, we expect it to be in 

 its old form again this season. 



In the list of older varieties there will 

 be some changes, too. White Perfection 

 still leads, with White Enchantress run- 

 ning about even. Vesper will not be 

 grown as much as last season, while Lady 

 Bountiful will be planted in about the 

 same quantity as before. Enchantress is 

 stiU popular and profitable. Bose-pink 

 Enchantress lost friends last winter, but 

 regained them at the end of the season 

 by its beautiful color. Winsor will not 

 be planted as much as last season, on 

 account of its short stem. Aristocrat will 

 hold on another season, but Pink Im- 

 perial will not be grown this season at 

 all. In red. Victory and Beacon will oe 

 grown about equally — Beacon for mid- 

 winter and Victory to cover the whole 

 season. Crimson Glow is our only crim- 

 son. A. F. J. Baur. 



fore need more protection. One of these 

 is the carnation. 



The most successful means for destroy- 

 ing them, known today, is nicotine in 

 whatever shape it can be applied to the 

 best advantage, in dry or liquid form. 



As long as there are no blooms, an ef- 

 fective way is to dust the plants thor- 

 oughly ynth tobacco' powder. Fumigating 

 can be resorted to on cool nights, and 

 spraying with a nicotine solution can 

 be done almost any time. After the 

 cutting of blooms begins, the latter is 

 by far the most satisfactory, in my esti- 

 mation. Begin your fight against them 

 now and keep it up to the end of the 

 blooming season. Do not be misled next 

 winter into the belief that you have de- 

 stroyed them all, if you do not see any 

 of them, else you will be overrun again 

 next spring. Spray regularly at inter- 

 vals, as may seem necessary, as a pre- 

 ventive. A. F. J. B. 



THRIPS. 



Please tell me what is wrong with my 

 carnations. The leaves come out twisted 

 and with brownish spots on them. They 

 are field grown. There is a tiny insect 

 on them, of brownish yellow color and 

 a little less than a sixteenth of an inch 

 in length. Can you tell me what it is 

 and the cause of it, and what can be 

 done to rid the plants of the pest? 



E. 0. E. 



The little insects you complain of are 

 the well known thrips, which have been 



RED SPIDER. 



I am sending a sample of carnation 

 plants and would like to know what is 

 the trouble with them. E. P. M» 



The specimens forwarded were badly 

 infested with red spider, and if you 

 are to help the plants any, you must 

 get at it at once. When plants once 

 become badly infested with this pest, 

 they are sure to do immense harm before 

 they can be subdued. In the greenhouse 

 there really is no excuse for their exist- 

 ence in such large numbers if a fair 

 water pressure is at hand and no old 

 stock of any kind is in the same house. 

 A few applications of salt water fol- 

 lowed by a hard syringing each time 

 should clear them out, if taken in hand 

 when the first ones are noticeable. 



Sometimes in a dry season, like the one 

 we had here last year, spider gives lots 

 of trouble in the field. If only a few 

 are taken out at planting time, they will 



Progenitors of the Shasta Daisy. 



doing such enormous damage to florists' 

 crops during the last few years. These 

 little pests are apparently everywhere in 

 greater or less numbers, both indoors and 

 out, and almost every kind of flower crop 

 must be protected against them. Some 

 kinds of flowers suffer more severely 

 from their stings than others and there- 



multiply and overrun a large patch by 

 midsummer. It is not possible to fight 

 them so effectively in the field as can 

 be done inside, so they just about have 

 their own way. The way carnations are 

 usually planted in the field, it is impos- 

 sible to syringe each plant from both 

 sides, as can be done on the benches in- 



side. The same remedies you would use 

 inside must be resorted to in the field 

 and they must be applied as effectively 

 as circumstances will permit. 



Last fall red spider was brought iuto 

 the houses in larger numbers than had 

 been done for many years. Few growers 

 with whom I talked last winter failed to 

 make the same complaint. In most cases 

 they were not so numerous but that a 

 few weeks of treatment eradicated th^m. 



This season, so far, we have had rather 

 more rain than we cared for, and the 

 plants are quite clean at this time. With 

 a couple of weeks of drier weather the 

 plants this year should be in excellent 

 condition for benching. A. F. J. B. 



OLD FORMS OF THE DAISY. 



The group of daisies in the illustration 

 was photographed at Santa Cruz, Cal, 

 and includes some of the most pro- 

 nounced varieties of the tall daisies still 

 grown in old gardens there, the progen- 

 itors of the newer form called Shasta. 



The rays or petals of one of the flow- 

 ers are deeply cut or laciniated, so much 

 so in some specimens as to nearly hide 

 the yellow disk. This variety is about 

 eighteen inches tall and is extremely 

 beautiful. Another form has its rays or 

 petals (a single row) emerging from the 

 disk in a quilled shape. Another has 

 three rows of rays, each row shorter than 

 the one below. This one is yellow, 

 tinged vdth white, and decidedly unique. 

 Another, of the purest white, has the 

 ends of the petals deeply cut and some- 

 times of a wavy or twisted form. 



A form not shown in the illustration 

 has large flowers and is only eight to 

 nine inches tall. Plants made from cut- 

 ..^^ingg and divisions and not allowed to 

 J blossom give many flowers during the wet 

 season in the winter months of Cali- 

 fornia. 



The fringed daisy, already referred to, 

 is about four inches in lateral diameter 

 and nearly two inches in vertical diam- 

 eter. This hanging or drooping character 

 of the rays or petals certainly adds 

 greatly to the beauty of the flower. The 

 photograph gives only an incomplete and 

 imperfect view of it. 



Geo. J. Streatob. 



SCALE ON PALMS. 



Will you please give me the best rem- 

 edy for scale on kentias and other palms! 

 K. P. C. 



Nicotine preparations are among the 

 most effective remedies for scale insects 

 on palms, but when the plants have been 

 allowed to become badly infested witli 

 the insects it is best to sponge them ott' 

 with a solution of nicotine soap or whale 

 oil soap. In case these soaps are not at 

 hand, then use a fairly strong solution or 

 Ivory soap; for example, one ounce o1' 

 the soap to a gallon of warm water. 



Having got rid of the adult insects bj 

 means of the sponging, it is much easiej 

 to keep the plants clean by spraying twict 

 a week with nicotine solution. W. H. T. 



CARBOLINEUM. 



Referring to the recent discussion in 

 the columns of the Review, regarding 

 the use of carbolineum in greenhouses. 

 I have to state that I have used it and 

 found that it kept the greenhouses free 

 from rot and free from bugs, but I 

 could not get any kind of stock to do 

 well in the houses in which it was used 

 until after a year or more had elapsed. 



