DCTODEn 8, 1914. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



;ii(> yi\on more time. Such tiiiiiipet 

 ii;ii-i-issi as Truiiipot major ami (ioldon 

 Spur will ('oim> in earlier tliau l''mperor 

 am! \'i'toria. Treat them the same a:< 

 li\ ai'iiitlis. ]'ai)er \\'liit(.'s ijo not ne(>(l 

 to ha\e their ilats (■o\-ere(l with coal 

 a>he.s or other mat(M'ial<; other iiarci-^si 

 ami tulips <lo. < '. \V. 



MEALY BUG. 



Will y(ju kimlly tell me how to rid 

 mums, ste\ ia ami ei'otoiis of mealy bu<^ i 

 They chistet- around tie- mum buds and 

 comjiletely destroy them. M. .1. K. ]i. 



A yood pressure ot' water properly 

 directed throuiih a spray iio//K' on the 

 liosc should (dean your plants. On cro- 

 tons use some kerosene emulsion or 

 other ins(M?tiride ocrasiomilly, liut do 

 not try this on the other plants. Hydro- 

 cyanic jiciij <_r;i..! ;nid nicutjne extracts 

 can also be used to lull mcalv bujr. 



■ c. w. 



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



-pia\ in^' solutions would have no effect 



\ hatever on the condition of th(> plants. 

 ;lave you kept the surface soil stirred 



•ersistently through the growing sea- 

 son? If this were done by every grower 

 I am sure we would have fewer poor 



isters. It is really astonishing how 

 Miuch drouglit plants will stand when 



he cultivator is kept going constantly. 



C. W. 



HER DADDY'S FOUR STORES. 



•losoph Trepel, of lirooklyn, N. Y., is 

 Mist about as proud of his little daugh- 

 •'•r as she is of her daddy's four stores, 

 ind in the composite photograph repro- 

 iiced herewith, she forms the center- 

 'i(N-e around which are grouped the four 

 etail establishments of Mr. Trepel, who 

 ■< styled on the jiostcard from which 

 he accomj)anying illustration was maile 

 ' iJrooklyii 's largest florist.'' At his 

 "ur stores, two on Broadway, one on 

 d.inhattan avenue and one on Lewis 

 ivenue, .Mr. Trepel disposes of large 

 piantities of llowers, such large quanti- 

 'ies. in fact, that he, like his brother, 

 ' '. C Trepel, is welcomed on West 

 I'wentyeighth street when there is a 

 ■nriilus of stock on the New York 

 vliolesalo market. Mr. Trepel is a vet- 

 tan iu the florists' business; the store 

 n Hroadway and Keid a\ enue be.ars 

 pon the window this mark of age, 

 •Kstablished ISSS, " and is, therefore, 



year jiast the quarter-century mark. 



STEVIAS DOING POORLY. 



I am sending you a specimen of our 

 'cvias. Nearly all of our plants are 

 ili'ctod in the same way as this one. 

 ■Ill Nou t(dl me the cause and the 

 'inedV for it .' Will it allVct their 

 '"'itniiiL' .' If. (). II. & S. 



This trouble is of common occurrence 

 ■11 stevi;is and some other plants, and 

 "" usually caused by the jilants having 

 'ecu stunted and starved in their pots. 

 t is rarely seen on ]dants which have 

 "■'id good culture. There is nothing you 

 •'in do to remedy matters beyond water- 

 ni: and feeiling your plants well. The 

 'lasses of small growths at the bases 

 f the plants will not flower, the others 

 ■'ll. I'etter not propagate from any 

 ■lit vigorous plants for next season. If 

 'lo cutting's become stunted in the cut- 



ting bench, cuttings are also liable to 

 grow in this way. L'. W. 



TULIPS AND NARCISSI. 



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 hvacinths and Paper White narcissi.' 



E. F. C. 



It takes from sixteen to twenty 

 weeks from planting to bring these 

 bulbs into bloom, according to the \"a- 

 ]iet\'. Such tulips as La Keiiie, White 

 Hawk and Diu; van Thol may be h;id in 

 even b^ss than sixteen weeks sometime^. 

 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 Fleet ric City Con- 

 servatory })resents a i)rogressive appear- 

 ance to the 35,000 inhabitants of Great 

 Falls, Mont. The building, which is 

 connected with the greenhouses, is situ- 

 ated iu 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 ollice 

 .•ind a workroom occupy the structure 

 in addition to the store. The fixtures 

 are in striking mission style. .\t night 

 the place is a blaze of light, the main 

 windows alone carrying two .Inii c;indlo- 

 power nitrogen electric lamps. The 

 liu-iiioss here includes not mily cut 

 llowers and plants but also seeds and 

 nui'-ei'N' stock. 



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



