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The Florists^ Review 



AuoDST 13, 1914. 



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funeral work, however, there has been 

 considerable activity. Roses an ex- 

 tremely scarce and are of poor qu Uty. 

 Carnations have been about equ il to 

 the demand, with occasional shoiiages 

 in some localities. Asters are coming 

 more freely and are improvel in 

 quality. Customers are gladly tuming 

 to asters, as the small summer carna- 

 tions are not satisfactory. Sweet peas 

 continue good and are to be hjui in 

 abundance. 



Various Notes. 



The Spokane Greenhouses, Inc., say 

 that, from all appearances, they will be 

 cutting a good crop of roses in a few 

 weeks. Several benches of carnations 

 which were cut back and are being car- 

 ried over are now throwing a good 

 crop of flowers of fine quality and color, 

 The firm's gloxinias have been excep- 

 tionally good. They had a big batch 

 of azaleas left from last winter and 

 these are being carried over in fine 

 shape. They are expecting that the 

 probable shortage of azaleas from Bel 

 gium, occasioned by the European war, 

 will make these as valuable as a small 

 gold mine. 



At the annual sweet pea show, con- 

 ducted under the auspices of the ladies 

 of the First Universalist church, a 

 handsome display of flowers was shown. 

 A. J. Burt, Carl T. Kipp and Henry 

 E. Reimers, who judged the show, pro- 

 nounced the exhibit, as regards variety, 

 quality and artistic arrangement, of j 

 extraordinary excellence. Mr. Burt 

 it was one of the finest displays of ^^ 

 sweet peas grown by amateurs that he ^B . 

 had ever seen. He calls the vicinity ^B . 

 about Spokane an ideal country ^c^^H] 

 sweet peas, asters and dahlias. ^1, 



Miss Graharh, of the store force of | 



Portland, Ore. — L. C. Shearer, for- 

 merly at Rockford, 111., is starting a 

 new establishment here. He has two 

 houses of half -iron construction. He is 

 now busy benching chrysanthemums. 



Spokane, Wash.— C. T. Kipp, presi- 

 dent of the Spokane Florist Co., has 

 taken a 3-year lease on the store at 

 the Sprague avenue entrance to the 

 new Davenport hotel. He plans to 

 operate this as a branch of the River- 

 side store. 



Portage, Wash.— A fire, one-half mile 

 wide, in the brush near here was the 

 cause of alarm at the greenhouses of 

 F. W. Bibbins recently. The blaze was 

 headed for his establishment and re- 

 quired the efforts of fire fighters day 

 and night to head it off. 



Tacoma, Wash.— The Hayden-Wat- 

 son flower store was opened August 1 

 at 938 South C street. This concern 

 represents the union of the two retail 

 stores conducted separately by the two 

 members of the new firm. The store is 

 up to the minute in style and furnish- 

 ings, and is one of the best in this sec- 

 tion. 



Seattle, Wash.— The first annual 

 show of the Pacific Coast Dahlia Society 

 will be held in the National Guard 

 armory September 18 and 19. Prep- 

 arations are extensive and members of 

 the society, most of whom are ama- 

 teurs, are enthusiastic over the out- 

 look. Among the judges for the show 

 is Thomas Wylie. 



SPRAY FOE TAENISH BUO. 



Growers who have tried every for- 

 mula suggested to rid their plants of 

 the tarnish bug, without success, will 

 welcome the news that a florist of 

 Portland, Ore., has a spray which will 

 clean out this pest in a short time. A. 

 Hallett, who has a range at Seventy- 

 ninth street and Forty-fifth avenue, de- 

 clares it beats anything he has ever 

 tried in his forty years' experience as 

 a grower. His aster and chrysanthe- 

 mum plants were thickly infested with 

 the tarnish bug and leaf-miner until 

 he tried this remedy, which destroyed 

 them at once. Later experiments 

 proved its success with red spider and 

 black aphis as well. 



The spray, which is the result of 

 many experiments in this line on the 

 part of Mr. Hallett, consists of cyanide 

 of potassium, brown sugar and water. 

 Earthen vessels should be used for mix- 

 ing and keeping the insecticide. Three 

 heaping teaspoonfuls of cyanide of po- 

 tassium and one pound of brown sugar 

 are placed in a bowl, and over them is 

 poured a quart of boiling water. When 

 these are thoroughly mixed, enough 

 cold water is added to make two gal- 

 lons of spraj'. This will cover a solid 

 bed of asters 50x50 feet. One pound 

 of cyanide of potassium and thirtv 

 pounds of brown sugar will make sixty 

 gallons of insecticide. 



In order to get the best results from 

 this spray, the plants should be as dry 

 as possible; if they are in a wilted 

 condition, so much the better, for they 

 will then absorb the liquid so much 



I sold oT«r 85,000 obrysantbamiuu 

 plants this ■•aaon on my l-lnoh ad In 

 the Pacific Coast Department of Tbe 

 Revlevr. Of course that paid me well 

 and I am very pleased. Tou will bear 

 from me acaln as soon as I can work 

 up stock.— Frank WUbelm, R. F. D. 

 Mo. 8,' Los Anceles, Cal., June 18, '14. 



the better and take more poison into 

 the plant, to the ultimate fatal detri- 

 ment of the tarnish bug and other 

 pests. Mr. Hallett states that when he 

 began the use of the spray there were 

 thousands of grasshoppers among his 

 plants, but that two days afterward 

 he could not see any. For the tarnish 

 bug it is necessary to spray several 

 times to get rid of the pest and con- 

 tinue the use of the insecticide about 

 once a week to keep the bugs away, 

 as they come from other sources, which 

 cannot be controlled. 



The poison is absorbed by the plants 

 with the sweet liquid, and when the 

 tarnish bug pierces the stems it draws 

 out the poison — and expires. It should 

 be remembered that inasmuch as cya- 

 nide of potassium is so deadly a poison 

 it should not be used on vegetables or 

 any crop that may be used as food, for 

 the leaves will contain enough poison 

 to cause the death of the consumer. 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Nothing unusual has occurred in the 

 market during the last week. Were it 

 not for funeral work, all hands might 

 as well have taken vacations. In 



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