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The Florists' Review 



Aloubt 27, 1914. 



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CAPTUBINO BOLLINa DOLLARS. 



Many young men, launching into busi- 

 ness for themselves, are too intent on 

 capturing the dollar, or getting rich iu 

 get-rich-quick style. In consequence 

 they sometimes fail. The first intent 

 of the man opening a store, or starting 

 any other business, must be to give the 

 public genuine service. His mind must 

 be concentrated upon that, and the de- 

 tails of giving such service must be 

 worked out and put into operation. 

 Then the rolling dollars automatically 

 roll his way. 



Failure to give first concern to the 

 customer is going at the matter back- 

 wards. To give all thought to the dol- 

 lars coming is to apply the brakes be- 

 fore we get a good start. The cus- 

 tomer's welfare is the merchant's prin- 

 cipal concern today. 



OCEAN LINES RESUME SAILINGS. 



Although not many passengers of the 

 class which has made this business prof- 

 itable to florists will be booked in the 

 near future, steamer sailings have been 

 resumed on regular schedules by most 

 of the large companies, except, of 

 course, the German lines, which have 

 definitely suspended operations. Changes 

 may be made at any time to -meet con- 

 ditions on the other side of the sea, but 

 definite plans have been announced for 

 present sailings. 



The Cunard line resumed service 

 from New York to Liverpool August 

 15 with the Saxonia. Weekly sailings 

 on Wednesday are the rule, and the 

 following sailings have been given out: 

 August 19, Laconia; August 26, Cam- 

 pania; September 9, Mauretania; Sep- 

 tember 12, Saxonia; September 16, Cam- 

 pania; September 23, Lusitania; Sep- 

 tember 30, Mauretania; October 7, Cam- 

 pania; October 14, Lusitania. The Cun- 

 ard service to Queenstown and Liver- 

 pool from Boston will be partially re- 

 stored next month, these sailings oeing 

 announced: September 5, Franconia; 

 September 15, Laconia; September 29, 

 Franconia. The London line from Mon- 

 treal and Quebec starts again August 

 29 with the sailing of the Andania, fol- 

 lowed September 5 by the Ascania and 

 September 10 by the Alaunia. 



The Anchor line, New York to Glas- 

 gow, has scheduled the following: Au- 

 gust 29, Cameronia; September 5, Co- 

 lum.bia; September 12, Ansonia; Sep- 

 tember 19, Caledonia. 



The White Star line will maintain 

 service from New York to Liverpool on 

 Thursdays with the Olympic, the Celtic, 

 the Baltic, the Adriatic and the Cedric. 

 The Cretic will probably take the Cym- 

 ric 's place in the Tuesday sailings from 

 Boston. 



The French line anticipates no in- 

 terruption in carrying out its schedule, 

 but has revised the sailings announced 

 for the immediate future. The sched- 

 ule from New York now stands: Au- 



fust 29, Chicago; September 5, Espagne; 

 eptember 12, Eochambeau; September 

 16, France. After that a steamer a 

 week, as usual, is promised. 



The Holland-America line foresees no 

 change in its sailings to Rotterdam, as 

 announced early in the spring, except 

 that the stops at Plymouth and Bou- 

 logne-Sur-Mer are omitted. The sailings 

 from New York scheduled are: Sep- 

 tember 1, Noordam; September 8, Ryn- 

 dam; September 15, Rotterdam. 



Although the above sailings have 

 been definitely announced, changea may 

 be made at any time, as developments 

 on the other side of the water are 

 learned. 



Half a pound will suffice. Pour some 

 molasses over tljis mixture and then 

 add water until it makes the whole into 

 a paste. Leaves of cabbage or lettuce 

 poisoned with Paris green are also 

 eaten T^ith avidity. 



Scatter fresh soft coal ilbot frtely. 

 among your plants. It is offensive to 

 cutworms and is, at the same time, an 

 excellent fertilizer. Fresh rhubarb 

 leaves or pine shingles, laid here and 

 there on the beds each evening and ox- 

 amined in the morning, will be used as 

 hiding places by many. Pick up and 

 destroy these daily. Keep this war- 

 fare up and you should soon heavily 

 reduce the numbers of your foes. Hy- 

 drocyanic acid gas has been tried for 

 cutworms in carnations, but did not 

 prove effective. Sterilization of your 

 soil another year would be the .best 

 plan to clean out these and all other 

 soil pests. C. W. 



HYDBANOEA OTAKSA. 



Kindly advise us when dormant 

 plants of Hydrangea Otaksa, imported 

 from Holland, should be forced to bring 

 them in for Christmas, and when for 

 Easter. F. & L. 



TO DESTBOY CUTWOBMS. 



Can you give us the life history of 

 cutworms and any good remedy for 

 them besides hand-picking? We have a 

 hard dose of these cutworms, finding 

 them by the hundreds and almost by 

 the thousands, both in the greenhouses 

 and outdoors. They are doing great 

 damage to the tomatoes and chrysan- 

 themums, and hand-picking is an end- 

 less job. T. H. W. 



Hydrangea Otaksa cannot be suc- 

 cessfully forced for Christmas. For 

 Easter start the plants twelve weeks 

 in advance of that date, giving 50 de- 

 grees at night at first, later 60 degrees, 

 and running cooler as the flower heads 

 develop. C. W. 



While hand-picking — which has to be 

 done at night to be of any value, as 

 these pests are night marauders — is a 

 partial remedy, it is a slow and tedious 

 one. The best way to destroy large 

 numbers is to make a poisoned mash 

 and scatter it each evening about their 

 haunts. To a bushel of fresh shorts, 

 add sufficient Paris green to color it. 



SPBAY FOB BEETLES. 



We send you herewith a specimen of 

 a beetle and a leaf showing its work. 

 As it is doing considerable damage, we 

 would thank you for information con 

 cerning a remedy for it. S. &. Y. C. 



This particular beetle I am unac- 

 quainted with. In common with all 

 other leaf -eating pests, it can be easily 

 destroyed by spraying with arsenate of 

 lead at the rate of four pounds to fifty 



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