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TheWcekly Florists' Review. 



15 



Brown and Gold and Autumn Leaves. 



KLONDIKE AND DIANA. 



It is impossible to show in black and 

 white the attractiveness of a dark brown 

 twig basket filled with Klondike chrysan- 

 themums and well-colored oak foliage. 



Klondike is one of the best of the 

 pompon varieties and it has this season 

 enjoyed a much wider use than hereto- 

 fore. In the hands of a skilled decorator 

 some extremely attractive things can be 

 made with it, and for use on dinner- 

 tables there is nothing in its color that is 

 more useful. Diana, white, is the only 

 variety of the pompons which can claim 

 a greater popularity. 



WHITE GRUBWORMS. 



Please tell me if you have any remedy 

 for the white grubworm. I have solid 

 beds planted to mums and lettuce at 

 present and they are just full of the 

 pests. I have tried lime, tobacco water, 

 Paris green and bran mixed and have 

 killed a good many, but am not rid of 

 them, I think there is some kind of 

 chemical that I could put in the ground 

 to kill them. If so, please let me know 

 what it is and how I should use it. 



When my mums come out I would like 

 to steam the soil well and be sure to 

 get rid of them. Please tell me the best 

 way of doing this, as I have a little 

 steam boiler that I could use. The beds 

 are nine feet wide and 100 feet long and 

 about eight or ten inches deep. E. W. 



To clean out the grubworms spoken of, 

 which are undoubtedly the larvae of the 

 June bug or May beetle and usually 

 hatched in cow manure in the pastures, 

 purchase some carbon bisulphide. It 

 costs about 25 cents per pound-can at 

 retail. Take a pointed stick and bore 

 holes five to six inches deep in your 

 beds, about eighteen inches apart each 

 way. In each hole pour a few drops of 

 the carbon, immediately covering up the 

 hole. Go over the whole bed in this way 

 and you will kill every grub. Do it 

 when the soil is damp, as the fumes of 

 the carbon are then more penetrating. 

 This liquid is explosive, so do not use 

 any naked lights while using it. No 

 injury will result to the plants from its 

 use. 



If you are much troubled with these 



worms, it will certainly pay you to ster- 

 ilize your soil each season. The largest 

 lettuce growers in the country find that 

 it pays to do this. All weed seeds and 

 larvas of every kind are destroyed. If 

 you have a small steam boiler and can 

 run a flow and return pipe along each 

 bed, you can easily do the sterilizing 

 yourself. The pipes used should be per- 

 forated so as to allow the escape of 

 steam every foot or so. The compost 

 can be mounded up over the pipes so as 



to allow the heat to be retained longer. 

 Some growers seem to think sterilizing 

 injures the soil, but the majority are of 

 the contrary opinion. C. W, 



GOLDEN PRIVET. 



The golden privet, Ligustrum ovali- 

 folium aureum, has become popular in 

 England, where there is quite a large de- 

 mand for it in all sizes, from those in 

 thumb pots to large specimens. The Hor- 

 ticultural Advertiser says it does remark- 

 ably well in the suburbs of London. 

 Plants one year established remain ever- 

 green, but those transplanted from the 

 ground lose their leaves the first season. 

 Some growers take them up from the 

 ground and pot them, but these do not 

 prove satisfactory; if potted and plunged 

 in the ground one season, they give little 

 trouble, and even if a few roots come 

 over the tops or through the bottoms of 

 the pots, they may be trimmed off with- 

 out doing much harm, provided the plants 

 are kept moist both at root and top for 

 a few days. 



SOMERSWORTII, N. H. — Business is 

 good at G. S. Ramsburg's, He has been 

 receiving many orders of late from Port- 

 land florists. 



Council Bluffs, Ia. — It ia reported 

 that J. F, Wilcox is planning the addi- 

 tion of about 150,000 feet of glass to his 

 establishment next spring. 



Hutchinson, Kan. — Geo. M. Schurr 

 reports that Thanksgiving trade was 

 good, with mums pretty well sold out and 

 carnations in good demand, greater than 

 the supply. He says" prospects for the 

 Christmas trade' are excellent. 



W^M 



TROUBLE WITH BOSTONS. 



I am sending you herewith some speci- 

 mens of Boston ferns that are in bad 

 shape. Will you please tell us what is 

 the trouble with these plants and what 

 we must do to bring them into shape? 



C. S. 



The specimen in question has been re- 

 ceived and examined, but owing to the 

 fact that no particulars as to conditions 

 under which the plants are grown, or the 

 treatment, have been given, it is some- 

 what difficult to diagnose the trouble. 

 The roots of the plant appeared to be in 

 a normal condition, but the fronds were 

 few in number and badly tipped with 

 dead or nearly dead leaflets. The most 

 reasonable supposition is that the fronds 

 have been locally injured by some treat- 

 ment they have received, either strong 

 fumigation, or dipping in some insecti- 

 cide. 



There is one more possibility as to the 

 injury indicated, namely, a touch of 

 frost would leave a similar mark on the 

 tender tips of the fronds, though one 

 would not expect Boston ferns to be ex- 



posed to that, unless the grower is of a 

 careless type. W. H. T. 



NEPHROLEPIS MARSHALLL 



At a meeting of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society, London, England, Novem- 

 ber 9, H. B. May & Sons, of Edmonton, 

 exhibited a new plumose fern that re- 

 ceived a first-class certificate and of 

 which the Gardeners' Magazine has the 

 following to say: 



"Notwithstanding the fact that many 

 beautiful varieties of Nephrolepis exal- 

 tata are now in commerce, it must be 

 conceded that the newcomer, N. Mar- 

 shalli, is the most beautiful of them all. 

 Whether it becomes as popular for mar- 

 ket as some of its predecessors remains 

 to be seen ; but it is certain of wide pop- 

 ularity in private gardens. N. Marshalli 

 is a sport from N. exaltata Amerpohlii, 

 and its wide fronds are finely divided 

 and plumed, so that each frond looks like 

 a graceful piece of the most-< exquisite 

 moss. ' ' 



The illustration indicates extremely 

 licavy fronds, finely divided. 



