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The Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBGB 7, 1912. 



The Misses Gusta and Therese Alost, 

 the first lady growers of mums in the 

 city, deserve all the praise they receive 

 for their success in their chosen work. 

 A. Alost is the president and his daugh- 

 ters, Therese and Gusta, are the treas- 

 urer and secretary, respectively, of the 

 company. R. E. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



TOMATO LEAF BLIGHT. 



Will you kindly tell me the name of 

 the disease that shows on the enclosed 

 tomato leaf? The plants are growing in 

 a greenhouse and are about three feet 

 high, with four spikes of fruit on them, 

 some of the fruit commencing to ripen. 

 Please tell me, also, what is the best 

 treatment for them. J. F. J. 



The tomato leaves are affected with 

 tomato leaf blight, the scientific name 

 of which is Cladosporium fulvum. When 

 a cro}) is badly affected with the dis- 

 ease, it does considerable damage and 

 is hard to exterminate. It is a fungous 

 disease. The spores are made on the 

 under side of the leaves and are car- 

 ried to, or fall on, the upper side of 

 the others. The fungus itself grows 

 between the upper and lower skins of 

 the leaves and breaks out on the lower 

 side in the form of a brown, mold-like 

 fuzz, covered with the spores or germs 

 of the disease. 



Spraying with Bordeaux mixture on 

 the upper side of the leaves does noth- 

 ing except to prevent the leaves from 

 being affected on plants that are per- 

 fect and healthy now. If the leaves are 

 sprayed on the lower side with a fine 

 spray, it will kill the disease which is 

 showing on the lower side of the leaf. 

 For the Bordeaux spray use what is 

 called the 5, 5, •'50 mixture; that is, five 

 pounds of lime, five pounds of blue vit- 

 riol and fifty gallons of water. Dissolve 

 the vitriol in five gallons of hot water. 

 Slake the lime in a little water in a 

 pail; when cooled off, add enough to 

 make five gallons. Do not mix the two 

 together until poured into the barrel of 

 water. Keep it stirred well while using 

 it and use it the day it is made. 



Spraying the upper side of the leaves 

 from the time the plants are small is 

 a pretty sure preventive and in this 

 case it is not necessary to spray the 

 under side, but when the disease is once 

 established it is almost impossible to 

 separate the affected vines. They will 

 live, but will not pay. H. G. 



THRIPS ON FIELD BEANS. 



Enclosed you will find a bean leaf. 

 Please state the name of the disease 

 and a remedy for it. L. G. 



The forwarded leaf was covered with 

 thrips. These sometimes attack beans 

 ^nd other crops •during spells of warm, 

 ^ry weather. Lack of moisture at the 

 root makes plants an easier prey to 

 this pest. Spraying with cold water 

 through a fine nozzle, and also with 

 one of the nicotine or soap sprays, will 

 help considerably to reduce the num- 

 bers of the thrips, but to completely 

 destroy them on outside crops is almost 

 impossible. C. W. 



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VALLEY PIPS 



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Columbia City, Ind. — Hugh Sherwood 

 has just completed a greenhouse 30 x 100 

 feet on East Elsworth street. He did 

 all the work himself except for an 

 assistant six and one-half days. He will 

 start -with vegetables but work into cut 

 flowers. 



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