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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Algvst o, 100; 



iitluT srailft Miiiciy tli.-il |i(i^si'ssi's any 

 ilass at all. 



Harvard also ran. It cannot bo com- 

 pared ^vith Crimson Glow or llarlowar- 

 >lcn. 



May has made both t'l'ionds and ene- 

 mies. Rome report excellent results, with 

 increased j)lantinj;- for next seasdn, while 

 others report poor success. Our own 

 were uot so good as the season before, 

 on account of red spider in the Held. 

 With clean jdnnts, we ex])ect it to be iu 

 its old form a^iain this season. 



In the list of older varieties there will 

 be some changes, too. White Perfection 

 still lead.s, with White Enchantress run- 

 ning about even. Vesper will not be 

 yrown as much as last season, while Lady 

 Hountifnl will be planted in about the 

 .same (juantity as before. Enchantress is 

 still ])opular and profitable. Rose-pink 

 Enchantress lost friends last winter, but 

 legained 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 anotlu'i' season, but Pink Im- 

 perial will not be grown this season at 

 all. In red, Victory and Beacon will ne 

 grown about e(]ually — Beacon for mid- 

 winter and \'ictory to cover the whole 

 season. Crimson Clow i.s our only crim- 

 son. A. F. J. B.MR. 



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. O. E. 



The little insects you complain of are 

 the well known thrips, which have been 



fore n(>ed more protection. One of these 

 is the carnation. 



The most successful means for destroy- 

 ing them, known today, is nicotine in 

 whatexci' shajx' it can he a|)plie(l 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 with 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 siitisfactory, 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. Spraj^ regularly at inter- 

 \als, as nmy seem necessary, as a jtre- 

 ventive. A. F. J. B. 



RED SPIDER. 



I am sending a sample of carnation 

 ]d;iiits 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 api)lications 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. 



Ining such cndrmous damage to florists' 

 cr()|(S during the last few years. These 

 little pests arc apparently everywhere in 

 greater or less nund)ers, 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 thore- 



midtiply .ind n\crrun a large patch by 

 midsummer. It is not ]iossibl(! to fight 

 them so effectively in the field as can 

 he done inside, so they just about have 

 their own way. The way carnations are 

 usually ])lanted in the field, it is impos- 

 sible to syringe each jilant from both 

 sides, as can he done oik tlie benches in- 



side. The same remedies you woulu 

 inside must be resorted to in the > 

 and they must be applied as effect 

 as circumstances will permit. 



Last fall red spider was brought 

 the houses in larger numbers than 

 been done for many years. Few grn 

 with whom I talked last winter faili 

 make the same complaint. In most > 

 they were not so numerous but th; 

 few weeks of treatment eradicated i 



This season, so far, we have had rn 

 more rain than we cared for, and 

 plants are quite clean at this time. \ 

 a couple of weeks of drier weather 

 plants this year should be in excel 

 condition for benching. A. F. J. 1 



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OLD FORMS OF THE DAISY. 



The group of daisies in the illustrai on 

 was photographed at Santa Cruz, (il.^ 

 and includes some of the most pio 

 nounced varieties of the tall daisies sill 

 grown in old gardens there, the prog, n- 

 itors of the newer form called Shasta. 



The rays or petals of one of the flnw- 

 ers are deeply cut or laciniated, so nuK h 

 so in some specimens as to nearly hiile 

 the yellow disk. This variety is abiHit 

 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 th.iii 

 the one below. This one is yellow, 

 tinged with white, and decidedly uni(|iic. 

 Another, of the purest white, has the 

 ends of the petals deeply cut and sonii - 

 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- 

 tings and divisions and not allowed to 

 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. Tlie 

 photograph gives only an incomplete and 

 imperfect view of it. 



Geo. J. Streator. 



SCALE ON PALMS. 



Will you ]ilease give me the h(>st rem 

 eilv for scal(> on kentias and other palms' 



K. F. C. 



Nicotine prcparation.s are among th 

 most effective remedies for scale inseci 

 im j>alnis. but when the plants have bee 

 allowed to become badly infested wit 

 tlie insects it is best to sponge them oi 

 with a solution of nicotine soap or wha' 

 (lil soap. In case these soaps are not :i 

 hand, then u.se a fairly strong solution o 

 Ivory soap ; for example, one ounce « 

 the soap to a gallon of warm water. 



Having got rid of the adult insects 1' 

 means of the sponging, it is much easie 

 to keep the plants clean by spraying twie 

 a \\('(^k with nicotine solution. W. H. T. 



CARBOLINEUM. 



deferring to the recent discussion ii 

 the c(dumns of the Keview, regardin, 

 the use of carbolineum in greenhouses 

 1 have to state that I have used it aii' 

 found that it kept the greenhouses frci 

 from rot and free from bugs, but I 

 coidd not get any kind of stock to <1' 

 well in the houses in which it was use 

 until after a vear or more had elapsed 



