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JANOABT 20, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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English Room, Fort Pitt Hotel Pittsburg:, in which Next Week's Carnation Show Occurs. 



Dust, or with lime and sulphur mixed in 

 equal parts. Pick off all the spotted 

 leaves and burn them. Bordeaux mixture 

 is one of the best fungicides. Spray with 

 it once each week. Keep the atmosphere 

 charged with fumes of sulphur by paint- 

 ing one of the steam pipes with lime sul- 

 phur and water. A. F. J. B. 



ROOTING CARNATIONS IN SOIL. 



Will carnations root in soil the same 

 as they will in sand, providing they have 

 the same caref F. W. S. 



The best medium for rooting carna- 

 tion cuttings is clean, sharp sand. You 

 would have your troubles in trying to 

 root them in soil. Carnation cuttings 

 must be kept moist to prevent wilting 

 and they would be sure to damp off in 

 soil. We have occasionally seen a young 

 siJoot, stuck into the soil in a sheltered 

 l"'Sition, take root, but such occurrences 

 aie exceptional. A. F. J. B. 



CARNATIONS GETTING LARGER. 



'■Several years ago Wm. L. Kroeschell, 

 " Kroeschell Bros. Co., devised a 

 'rn\«- "^® °° carnation blooms, a 

 I " «y affair that has since become known 

 practically all growers, for thousands 

 ;..H,L^^®°.*"»t^"ibuted free to whosoever 



' ur V, **^** *™® **^^^ measure was 

 ' - J"'^^?^ 1° diameter, and there was 



- hPn o J''? ^^^* ^0"!^ entirely cover it. 



larap M ^^ *^® measure was made 



, LF' ^^- Kroeschell said he "wanted 



' " Lh ?w ^°'' *^« growers to work 



•ill maki, f>, « ^^^ "^"'•e t^^^t many 



i'Mly cov. ^^.°''* ^^'""^ ^i" result in 



"y cohering the disc." That his pre- 



diction came true was shown in an issue 

 of the Review last spring, in which a 

 photographic reproduction of a carnation 

 completely covered the carnation measure. 

 The grower of the new sort was 

 Charles Knopf, Richmond, Ind., and Mr. 

 Kroeschell sent his congratulations. Now 

 Mr. Kroeschell has set a new mark by en- 

 larging his measure to five inches. 

 "While this may seem to be asking a 

 great deal," he says, "yet we feel that 



The New Carnation Measure. 



the growers are moving forward steadily 

 and surely and that with this new mark 

 continuously before them, some growers 

 will in time put even this five-inch carna- 

 tion measure out of business." 



To help the work along, Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co. has offered a prize of $25 in 

 gold or a beautiful gold medal of equal 

 value, to the grower who exhibits the best 



dozen carnations at either of the follow- 

 ing shows, covering the new carnation 

 measure of five inches in diameter: Na- 

 tional carnation show, Pittsburg, 1910; 

 Chicago flower show, 1910; National 

 Flower Show, Boston, 1911. 



ON TO PITTSBURG. 



The Pittsburg Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club has made unusual preparation for 

 the entertainment of the American Carna- 

 tion Society next week. The club holds 

 its regular meetings at the new Fort Pitt 

 hotel and has been so well pleased Tvith 

 the hospitality extended it there that the 

 hotel has been selected as the headquar- 

 ters for the convention. 



The arrangement promises to be the 

 most pleasant and satisfactory in the his- 

 tory of the Carnation Society. The ex- 

 hibition and meetings will be held in the 

 hotel, and the Pittsburg Florists' Club 

 will banquet the visitors there on Thurs- 

 day evening, January 27. Thus every- 

 thing will be under one roof, and there 

 will not be the scattering of members 

 which is the case where the main hall is 

 at a distance from the hotels. 



The Fort Pitt is one of the most mod- 

 ern of hotels. The accompanying illus- 

 tration is reproduced from a photograph 

 of what is known as the English room. 

 It is in this room that the exhibition will 

 be staged and later that the banquet will 

 be giver.. The size of the room is 38x107 

 feet. 



Springfield, Mo. — J. W. Stokes has 

 erected a greenhouse and begun business 

 at 224 South Boulevard. His building 

 material was furnished by the Foley 

 Mfg. Co., of Chicago. 



