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TheWcekly Florists' Review. 



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Eichmond, Ind., was our next call, to 

 see the nurseries of E. G, Hill Co., a 

 very good establishment, Boses and 

 carnations are done well. A new carna- 

 tion, Bonfire, bright scarlet, is a fine 

 thing, also several new roses. Mr. Hill 

 has found the lost scent of- the rose 

 and we shall soon have his new varie- 

 ties. 



From there we went to Chicago. This 

 is a pushing place, all hustle. It seems 

 to me this will yet be the greatest city 

 in America. We visited the wholesale 

 florists, also the great cut flower grow- 

 ing establishment of the Poehlmanu 

 brothers: 62,000 plants of American 

 Beauty rose, also Richmond, My Mary- 

 land, Killarney, White Killarney, Mel- 

 ody, etc., altogether 275,000 roses under 

 glass, most of them struck from cut- 

 tings; 250,000 carnations all planted 

 out on raised beds. 



The Boston show was well laid out. 

 Groups of acacias and ericas, and a 



farden of roses from T, Boland, were 

 eatures, also the Dutch garden of 

 Messrs. Farquhar. Mr. Walsh put up a 

 splendid group of rambler roses in 

 which Mrs. M. H. Walsh, a new double 

 white was very fine, also Lucille. A. N. 

 Pierson, of Cromwell, staged a new- 

 sport from Killarney, named Scarlet 

 Killarney; I should say it has a good 

 future. Mr. Scott exhibited Double 

 Pink Killarney, with twelve or more 

 petals than in the old Killarney; it 

 looked a good rose. Carnations were a 

 great feature — we expected this. It 

 seems to me our American friends have 

 much to learn as regards the staging 

 of flowers. We took tram to see Mr. 

 Sim's sweet peas, a marvelous sight, 

 •one house 400 feet long and forty-three 

 feet wide, with nine rows of sweet 

 peas, six feet high in the pink of 

 health covered with blooms. Thousands 

 of Princess of Wales violets are grown 

 under glass; then comes tomatoes. Mr. 

 Sim is a clever grower. 



New York was the beginning of our 

 trip, and in New York we finished. 

 We were obliged to decline several invi- 

 tations to visit nurseries, but on our 

 last day there we were the guests of 

 Arthur T. Boddington at lunch. Yes, 

 a most wonderful time we had in Amer- 

 ica from first to last, and a thousand 

 thanks to the American florists who 

 welcomed, us, not as strangers but as 

 brothers. A great wave is coming over 

 America to beautify the cities and 

 towns with trees and shrubs. With the 

 exception of Washington and a few 

 towns this has been neglected. America 

 does big things when she starts and 

 American nurserymen are on the look- 

 out for stock. I am surprised that 

 English nurserymen do not push for 

 American trade; any quantity of stock 

 <;an- be sold and American nurserymen 

 are eager to buy. But it is all left to 

 the Dutchmen, who do a roaring trade, 

 as the field is left to them. 



WHITE FLY. 



There are many white flies in my 

 greenhouse. Will you please tell me of 

 something I can use that will destroy 

 them? K. L. F. 



Such safe fumigants as To-bak-ine 

 will clear out white fly, but the most 

 effective means is hydrocyanic acid 

 gas, directions for the use of which 

 have often been 'given in the pages of 

 The Review. A cool evening is neces- 

 sary for the operation. Do not trust 

 the work to any assistant; do it your- 



Bluedorn's Azalea. 



self. This is a deadly gaS and it is 

 unwise to leave the fumigation to care- 

 less persons. Some plants are much 

 more easily injured than others. To- 

 matoes, cucumbers and antirrhinums, 

 for instance, are easily scorched. If 

 the fumigation can be given with the 

 temperature in 'the hous6 below 60 de- 

 grees, the chances of injury are great- 

 ly reduced. To get the cubic contents 

 of your house, multiply the length by 

 the breadth and this by the average 

 height. Give two fumigations, at in- 

 tervals of three nights, and you will 

 give' the white fly its quietus. This 

 is now a common form of fumigation, 

 not only for white fly, but for other 

 pests, but must be used with great 

 care. 



I have found the following a safe 

 dose for use, giving an all-night ex- 

 posure: One pint water and one pint 

 sulphuric acid in a stone jar. Add to 

 this two and one-half ounces cyanide 

 of potassium. Place the jars fifty feet 

 apart in the house. I prefer to use 

 jars with sufficient mixture for at least 

 2,000 cubic feet of space. Having 

 placed the jars in position, see that 

 the ventilators are closed tightly. Drop 

 the cyanide, wrapped in oil paper, in 

 each jar. Walk along briskly. Make 

 a speedy exit. Lock the door and al- 

 low no one to enter until morning. To 

 breathe the gas is fatal. C. W. 



Latrobe, Pa. — Edward Leitzman says 

 that the business of the florists in the 

 Latrobe and Irwin district is at the 

 lowest ebb in years, because of the 

 miners' strike, which has now been in 

 force thirteen months. 



BLUEDORN'S AZALEA. 



The illustration on this page is re- 

 produced from a photograph received 

 from Herman Bluedorn, Eau Clatre, 

 Wis., who writes: "The plant stands 

 five feet four inches high and meas- 

 ures four feet six inches across the 

 head. I have no name for the variety. 

 Twelve years ago I received a number 

 of azaleas atid about two years later 

 noted that a branch of one of the 

 plants still on hand made an exception- 

 ally rapid growth. I took enough in- 

 terest in it to grow it on into a tree 

 [standard(t)] fo'rm and when it bloomed 

 it was a different color from the rest 

 of the plant, being a bright, dark 

 pink, with a still darker blotch in the 

 throat of the flower, I have raised cut- 

 tings of many different kinds of aza- 

 leas, but never have seen one like this. 

 All the cuttings from this plant go 

 naturally to the tree form and when 

 blooming they are all covered with 

 flowers, like the one in the photograph, 

 with hardly a leaf to be seen." 



Cambridge, Mass. — Herman A. Jor- 

 dan, proprietor of the Harvard Con- 

 servatories, at 22 Baldwin street, car- 

 ries on a successful business as a gar- 

 dener as well as a florist. 



Missoula, Mont — J. H. Smith, who 

 until recently was foreman at the 

 greenhouses of the Missoula Nursery 

 Co., is now store manager for the same 

 firm. He says there has lately been a 

 heavy demand for carnations. Owing 

 to unfavorable weather, the field plant- 

 ing of carnations was not begun till a 

 later date than usual. 



