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are given more time. Such trumpet 

 narcissi as Trumpet major and Golden 

 Spur will come in earlier than Emperor 

 and Victoria. Treat them the same as 

 hyacinths. Paper Whites do not need 

 to, have their flats covered with coal 

 ashes or other materials; other narcissi 

 and tulips do. C. W. 



MEAI.Y BUG. 



Will you kindly tell me how to rid 

 mums, stevia and crotons of mealy bugf 

 They cluster around the mum buds and 

 completely destroy them. M. J. R. B. 



A good pressure of water properly 

 directed through a spray nozzle on the 

 hose should clean your plants. On cro- 

 tons use some kerosene emulsion or 

 other insecticide occasionally, but do 

 not try this on the other plants. Hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas and nicotine extracts 

 can also be used to kill mealy bug. 



C.W. 



Joseph TrepeFs Little Daughter and Her Daddy's Four Brooklyn Stores. 



Spraying solutions would have no effect 

 whatever on the condition of the plants. 

 Have you kept the surface soil stirred 

 persistently through the growing sea- 

 son t ^ this were done by every grower 

 I am sure we would have fewer poor 

 asters. It is really astonishing how 

 much drought plants will stand when 

 the cultivator is kept going constantly. 

 C. W. 



HER DADDY'S FOUR STOBES. 



Joseph Trepel, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is 

 just about as proud of his little daugh- 

 ter as she is of her daddy's four stores, 

 and in the composite photograph repro- 

 duced herewith, she forms the center- 

 piece around which are grouped the four 

 retail establishments of Mr. Trepel, who 

 is styled on the postcard from which 

 the accompanying illustration was made 

 "Brooklyn's largest florist." At his 

 four stores, two on Broadway, one on 

 Manhattan avenue and one on Lewis 

 avenue, Mr. Trepel disposes of large 

 quantities of flowers, such large quanti- 

 ties, in fact, that he, like his brother, 

 C. C. Trepel, is welcomed on West 

 Twenty-eighth street when there is a 

 surplus of stock on the New York 

 wholesale market. Mr. Trepel is a vet- 

 eran in the florists' business; the store 

 on Broadway and Eeid avenue bears 

 upon the window this mark of age, 

 "Established 1888," and is, therefore, 

 a year past the quarter-century mark. 



ting bench, cuttings are also liable to 

 grow in this way. : C. W. 



TULIPS AND NAEOISSI. 



Will you kindly advise me how long 

 it takes to bring tulips and large 

 trumpet narcissi into bloom after plant- 

 ing? Are they treated about the same 

 as hyacinths and Paper White narcissi f 



E. F. C. 



It takes from sixteen to twenty 

 weeks from planting to bring these 

 bulbs into bloom, according to the va- 

 riety. Such tulips as La Reine, White 

 Hawk and Due van Thol may be had in 

 even less than sixteen weeks sometimes, 

 but finer flowers are produced when they 



NEW STORE AT GREAT FALLS. 



With a flag bearing the legend "The 

 Leading Florist" waving above it, the 

 new store of the Electric City Con- 

 servatory presents a progressive appear- 

 ance to the 15,000 inhabitants of Great 

 Falls, Mont. The building, which is 

 connected with the greenhouses, is situ- 

 ated in a residence district, and has a 

 frontage of twenty-two feet and a depth 

 of thirty feet. A solid concrete base- 

 ment, twenty-two feet square, an office 

 and a workroom occupy the structure 

 in addition to the store. The fixtures 

 are in striking mission style. At night 

 the place is a blaze of light, the main 

 windows alone carrying two 500-candle- 

 power nitrogen electric lamps. The 

 business herer includes not only cut 

 flowers and plants but also seeds and 

 nursery stock. 



STEVIAS DOING POORLY. 



I am sending you a specimen of our 

 stevias. Nearly all of our plants are 

 affected in the same way as this one. 

 Can you tell me the cause and the 

 remjaifefor it? Will it affect their 

 bloom^? H. O. H. & S, 



This trouble is of common occurrence 

 on stevias and some other plants, and 

 is usually caused by the plants having 

 been stunted and starved in their pots. 

 It is rarely seen on plants which have 

 had good culture. There is nothing you 

 can do to remedy matters beyond water- 

 ing and feeding your plants well. The 

 masses of small growths at the bases 

 of the plants will not flower, the others 

 will. Better not propagate from any 

 but vigorous plants for next season. If 

 the cuttings become stunted in the cat- 



New Store of the Electric City Conservatory, at Great Falls, Mont. 



