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The Florists^ Review 



NOVKMBCU 5, 191-1. 



may be seen the man who supplies tlio 

 second half of the firm name, Mr. Gain 

 inili.- 



TOBACCO EXTBACTS. 



1 have been using a spray, for various 

 insect pests, consisting of one pouno 

 of tobacco stems boiled in one and one 

 half gallons of water, I have founc; 

 this to be effective for black aphis and 

 green fly. Please advise how the nico- 

 tine can be extracted from the tobacco, 

 as I think the pure nicotine diluted in 

 water will be still more effective. 



L. S. 



Store of the Gormao-Gammill G>.t Birmingham, Ala. 



be robust and certainly produces a much 

 larger and finer flower than any of the 

 others. 



When there is a demand for the light, 

 airy varieties, or for extra early ones, 

 Narcissus incomparabilis Stella, Leedsii 

 type, Duchess of Brabant and Mrs. 

 Langtry are profitable. Barrii con- 

 spicuus can be bought cheaply, blooms 

 freely, and usually finds a ready sale, 

 though none of this latter class brings 

 as high a price in most markets as the 

 trumpet daffodils. Of the poeticus nar- 

 cissi, N, poeticus ornatus and King Ed- 

 ward VII are the most profitable. The 

 latter variety is high priced, but, where 

 the market will pay for extra quality, 

 is worth the difference. 



It is difficult to name the four best 

 peonies, but undoubtedly P. festiva max- 

 ima and Queen Victoria in white, Felix 

 Crousse and Francois Ortegat in red, are 

 as good as anv. There are many good 

 pinks of about equal value; P. edulis 

 superba and rosea superba are the two 

 varieties that are perhaps most widely 

 grown, though Modeste Guerin is better 

 than the latter. 



Shippers here, in northern Tennessee, 

 usually do not ship in baskets at all, 

 but in good, clean boxes, well lined 

 wUh paper. The blooms are carefully 

 packed and held in place by means of 

 Wooden cleats, nailed over the stems in 

 such a way as to hold them down firm y 

 and yet not bruise them. Generallj 

 these cleats are put in over every layer 



of blooms. 



GEOEGE EYE'S PEIZE-WINNEBS. 



At the Arkansas-Oklahoma interstate 

 fair, held at Fort Smith, Ark., October 

 12 to 17, George Rye, of that city, gath- 

 ered in a number of blue ribbons in the 

 flower department, of which he was 

 superintendent. The flowers with which 

 these prizes were won were sent to Mr. 

 Eye by the Stuppy Floral Co., of St. 

 Joseph, Mo. Some of his entries are 

 shown in the accompanying illustration. 

 The classes in which he carried off first 

 prizes were: Best and most artistically 

 arranged basket of flowers; best and 

 most artistically arranged bouquet; best 

 twenty-five cut roses; best general col- 

 lection of cut flowers; display of roses, 

 eight or more varieties, six or more 



blooms, each variety vased separately; 

 display of twelve vases of flowers, not 

 called for in other classes; basket, any 

 kind of flowers; bouquet, any kind of 

 flowers. 



SEED STOEE IN COTTON LAND. 



.Supporting the cotton -growers of their 

 section through the buy-a-bale move- 

 ment, the Gorman-Gammill Seed Co., of 

 Birmingham, Ala., is in turn bidding for 

 their support by the means shown in the 

 accompanying illustration. If, as is 

 urged and as seems quite probable, the 

 agriculturists of the south turn their at- 

 tention to other crops besides cotton, the 

 Gorman-Gammill Seetl Co. will be one 

 of the seed firms to be on the ground 

 floor of the business which is to develop. 

 The Birmingham store is a good-sized 

 one, 25x140 feet, and a considerable busi- 

 ness is done. At the left of the ac- 

 companying illustration, in the buggy, 



It is not practicable for a florist to 

 make his own nicotine extract. To ob- 

 tain any considerable part of the nico- 

 tine content of the tobacco stems an 

 elaborate equipment is required. There 

 are only a few concerns in the United 

 States equipped to do the work eco- 

 nomically and the nicotine can be pur- 

 chased of them much cheaper than it 

 can be obtained without the apparatus 

 for distillation. Pure nicotine can be 

 purchased from wholesale druggists, but 

 it is not suitable for spraying purposes, 

 as it will not mix with water; the pre- 

 pared nicotine extra&ts offered by in- 

 secticide manufacturers and sold by all 

 sujjply houses and seed stores are the 

 cheapest and best to use. These are of 

 various strengths, but most of them 

 contain about forty per cent of nicotine. 



NAMES OF DAHLIAS. 



We are mailing to you under separate 

 cover two dahlia blooms, both appar- 

 ently of the cactus type. Will you give 

 us the names of the varieties? R. G. 



The two sample dahlia blooms were 

 received, but, having been delayed in 

 transmission, were somewhat the worse 

 for wear. However, the one with a 

 white center and pink outer petals is 



Some of Geo^e Rye's Prize- Winners of the Arkaouft-Oklafioma Fair. 



