JUNE 23, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



and get a good sale for them if picked 

 off Jnto small boxes containing a dozen 

 plaiits each. You could, if you wish, 

 follow these plants with a crop of either 

 toi! .itoes or chrysanthemums, whichever 

 you would be likely to have the best 

 gal' for. If you do not want to grow 

 bed'ling plants or vegetable plants for 

 sal . it would be a good plan to take 

 off a crop of lettuce first, and follow 

 thi with tomatoes. The latter could be 

 put in the benches about the end of 

 Miiy, and would give a profitable crop 

 belore outdoor fruit comes in season. 



C. W. 



FANSIES. 



ITow many plants should I get from 

 an ounce of pansy seed? When should 

 they be sown, in Indiana, and trans- 

 planted to the field, to sell at wholesale 

 in the fall and spring? E. F. 



lou should get 3,500 to 4,000 plants 

 from each ounce of pansy seed if of 

 good quality, and sometimes more. In 

 your state, sow the seed on or about 

 July 20 and transplant to the field when 

 sufficiently large to handle, always se- 

 lecting cloudy and moist days for the 

 work. Transplant on ground with good 

 drainage and where no water can pos- 

 sibly stand in winter. You can sow 

 either outdoors or in coldframes. If 

 outdoors, it is an advantage to mulch 

 the seed bed with some light material 

 until the seeds germinate. C. W. 



GIiADIOLI. 



Kindly name some red, white and 

 pink gladioli to grow in a carnation 

 bench. Can the variety known as Baby 

 be grown in carnation benches? 



C. W. M. 



A few good gladioli to grow in a 

 carnation bench are: America, beauti- 

 ful soft lavender pink; Augusta, pure 

 white, blue anthers; Brenchleyensis, 

 bright scarlet; Shakespeare, white suf- 

 fused carmine; Octoroon, salmon pink; 

 May, white, marked rosy crimson. 



The so-called "baby" varieties of 

 gladioli are useful for either bench cul- 

 ture or can be successfully grown in 

 flats containing four inches of soil. 

 These are procurable in October, and 

 can be planted much earlier than the 

 large bulbed sorts. A few desirable 

 varieties are: G. Colvillei The Bride, 

 piire white; Colvillei rosea, delicate 

 P|i'k; G. nanus Peach Blossom, delicate 

 Pi'ik, the finest variety of all; Mathilde, 

 ^'lite, tinged with delicate lavender; 

 Blushing Bride, ivory white, with crim- 

 son flakes; Crimson Queen, orange bc&t- 

 let. C. W. 



TO DESTEOY CUTWOKMS. 



}Vhat can I do to destroy little, dark 

 co:ored, soft slugs in the soil? They get 

 on my sweet peas at night and cut the 

 ^ors of the tender shoots and leaves. 

 f i'e slugs are about three-eighths of an 

 inch long. R. G. 



The soft slugs referred to are un- 

 "l^ubtedly cutworms, which are unusu- 

 ally destructive this year in many parts 

 ^'i the country. If your sweet peas are 

 •lot yet in flower, spray them with ar- 

 senate of lead at the rate of four 

 pounds to fifty gallons of water. This 

 joniewhat whitens the foliage and is ad- 

 hesive, but it will effectually discourage 

 ^ne cutworms. Scattering soft coal soot 



Miss Noe With Her Wedding Flowers. 



freely around the plants and even dust- 

 ing it over them acts as a deterrent. 

 The soot is also a good fertilizer. A 

 mash made of fresh shorts moistened 

 with molasses and water, to which is 

 added some Paris green or strychnine, 

 will also poison many. Lay it here and 

 there between the rows on a cabbage or 

 lettuce leaf. C. W. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



The annual show of the Horticultural 

 Society of France was held in Paris in 

 the end of May. On this occasion more 

 space than usual was devoted to the 

 rose. This section was arranged by M. 

 Gravercaux, the proprietor of the fa- 

 mous rose garden at L'Hay, and formed 

 a complete history of the rose in all 

 its forms and in its influence on litera- 

 ture and art. The first section dealt 

 with roses of the ancient Greeks, the 

 Rose of the Magi, roses of the middle 

 ages, York and Lancaster types, the 

 earliest known tea roses, all represented 

 in plants or blooms, showing the de- 

 velopment of the queen of flowers 

 through many ages up to the modern 

 rose of today. The second section dealt 

 with the rose in botany, pharmaceutics 

 and perfumery, in poetry, song and 

 drama, in painting and sculpture, and 

 finally in decorative and applied arts. 



The international rose congress met 

 at Paris May 26, M. Viger presiding, 

 and during the week excursions were 



made to the Rosera'ie de L'Hay and the 

 famous gardens at Versailles. The 

 nurseries of Nomblot-Bruneau, Vil- 

 morin-Andrieux & Co., Croux & Son, 

 Truffaut & Sons and Moser & Sons were 

 visited, a great host of horticulturists 

 taking part in the proceedings. 



Perhaps the most popular form of 

 gardening in England at present is rock 

 gardening, but this is being closely 

 followed by a craze for Japanese gar- 

 dens. There were many examples of 

 both in the Temple Gardens show and 

 exhibitors did a splendid trade in book- 

 ing orders for rock plants, alpines, eto. 



The centenary of Louis Van Houtte, 

 born July 1, 1810, will be celebrated 

 June 26 in Ghent, Belgium. 



H. A. Dimmock, of the Yokohama 

 Nursery Co., is running an extensive 

 exhibit in London in conection with the 

 Japan-British Exhibition. Japanese 

 dwarf trees and Japanese stone garden 

 lanterns are the outstanding features. 



John Waterer & Sons, Bagshot, are 



running their annual exhibition of rho- 

 dodendrons at the Royal Botanical Gar- 

 dens, London, during the month of June. 

 They are showing upwards of 2,000 

 plants from two feet to ten feet in 

 height, in about 200 varieties, alto- 

 gether about 50,000 blooms, and they 

 claim that it is the largest flower show 

 ever made by any one firm in the world. 



Bee. 



