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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



SiomiUBaB 18^ 1809. 



the removal of an exhibit which is in bad 

 condition. ' ' 



Since issuing the preliminary schedule, 

 the following prizes have been filed: 



The Waban Rose Conservatories, of Natlek, 

 Mass., offer a silver cup, valued at $50, for 

 the best fifty blooms of White KlUarneys, 

 Waban variety. 



Alexander Montgomery, of Natlek, Mass., of- 

 fers a silver cup, valued at $25, for the best 

 new rose of American origin, of the year 1909- 

 1910. 



For the prettiest exhibit of roses in the ex- 

 hibition, to be decided by the ladles' vote, a 



$10 gold piece, given by Miss Marian I. Ham- 

 mond, of Kisbkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



The H. F. Mlcbeil Co., of Philadelphia, Fa., 

 offers a silver cup, valued at $25, for fifty 

 blooms of Kiliarney roses. 



The happiest woman in the county 

 of Dutchess and the state of New York 

 was Mrs. Amelia Lefevere, who received 

 a recognition of a medal from the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society for a dooryard of roses, 

 so well kept that it was the admiration 

 of the neighborhood. This award has ex- 



cited considerable interest and is one of 

 the ways to build up u^e American Rose 

 Society in popular estee^. Let one jtet- 

 son in a neighborhood det an example 

 like this and others are sure to follow. 

 The good work grows and the result is 

 in' a practical way a benefit to the com- 

 mercial flower growers, aside from the 

 pleasure which a well kept dooryard gives 

 to every passerby. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



CARNATIONS IN POTS. 



Kindly let me know if carnations can 

 be grown with any success in pots, and 

 what kind of fertilizer to use and how 

 often it should be applied. I am located 

 in a flooded district and may have to 

 move them before they bloom. This is 

 the reason I want to plant in pots. My 

 house is 10x40, running north and south, 

 nine feet high at the gable and five feet 

 at the eaves ; raised benches, with eighteen 

 inches of glass above the benches on the 

 sides. I have some planted now in 5-inch 

 pots plunged up to the rim in soil on the 

 benches and set so the plants stand 9x12 

 inches apart. I am located in West Vir- 

 ginia. G. H. 



Carnations can be grown successfully 

 in pots, but will require much closer at- 

 tention and more labor than when grown 

 in the regular way on benches. 



Pot them at once into 5-inch pots and 

 stand them on your benches on sand as 

 you would any other pot plant. Stand 

 them far enough apart to allow good cir- 

 culation of air between the plants. Water 

 carefully, as they will dry out more 

 quickly than they would if growing on 

 benches. After they become fairly well 

 potbound shift into 7-inch pots and do 

 not feed with liquid manure until the 

 plants are potbound in the 7-inch pots. 

 Use a good, fibrous loam for potting, such 

 as you would use in your benches. No spe- 

 cial fertilizer is needed other than what 

 you would use on the bench-grown stock. 

 Keep them supported nicely and you will 

 get some good blooms. Do not plunge 

 the pots until toward spring. 



A. F. J. B. 



THRIPS NOT TO BLAME. 



Since reading Mr. Baur's carnation 

 notes of August 26 I am inclined to 

 think I have thrips in my carnation house. 

 I housed them the first week in August 

 and the warm weather led me to believe 

 that was the cause of so many of the 

 buds drying up. I purchased my White 

 Enchantress from a grower who was 

 troubled with thrips last season. The 

 buds and tops of the plants seem to die 



and dry up. I have examined them care- 

 fully, but cannot find insects of any kind, 

 but I am not sure I could tell thrips if I 

 should see one. I have been careful 

 about keeping the house watered and can- 

 not account for so many buds dying. I 

 have frequently dusted the plants with a 

 dry Bordeaux powder, but the trouble is 

 spreading to other varieties than White 

 Enchantress. J. L. M. 



The specimens forwarded do not show 

 any signs of thrips. This insect does 



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 present* his Ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



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 leam fastest by an 

 exobance of experiences. 

 Many valuable jralnts 

 are bronsbt out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling snd 

 grammar, though desirable, are not 

 necessary. Write as you would talk 

 wben doing your best. 



WK BHAXX BK GI.AD 

 TO HEAR FROM TOU 



not aflfect the buds in the manner in 

 which these are affected. Instead of the 

 young buds drying up, as these are, they 

 puncture the petals and cause spots of 

 dead tissue to show when the bloom un- 

 folds. 



There are quantities of red spider on 



these leaves and they may be partly re- 

 sponsible for your trouble. The blasting 

 of the buds may be attributed partly to 

 them and partly to the root disturbance 

 in transplanting, and the accompanying 

 conditions. 



I would advise you to go over the 

 plants and take off every shoot and every 

 leaf which shows the trouble. Then syr- 

 inge them as hard as you can with the 

 hose in the morning of a bright day. 

 After dinner spray the plants thoroughly 

 with Bordeaux mixture and scatter slaked 

 lime in the walks and under the benches. 

 If you run any artificial heat, paint a 

 pipe with sulphur and lime in equal por- 

 tions, made into a thick paint with water. 

 Keep picking off the affected leaves if 

 any more appear. Give plenty of air and 

 water carefully but not too sparingly. 



A.P.J.B. 



FOR A CRISTMAS CROP. 



When shall I discontinue topping my 

 carnations in order to have a good crop 

 for Christmas f D. S. 



You will likely do well to discontinue 

 topping your carnations now. Much will 

 depend on how close you top and then, 

 too, varieties differ greatly in the time it 

 takes them to produce a crop of blooms. 

 If you merely remove the blooming shoots 

 just before the bud shows color you can 

 take them off until a month before you 

 want blooms, but if you take them off 

 when the bud first shows, then you must 

 allow fully two months. Beacon ought 

 not to be topped after this date except as 

 first stated, else you are likely to miss 

 Christmas. A. P. J. B. 



WHITE SPOTS ON "^LEAVES. 



Will you please tell me what are the 

 white specks on the enclosed Vietorj ear- 

 nation leaff This is the first instance 

 of the kind I have ever seen. A. V. 



The specimen leaf you forwarded was 

 badly wilted when it arrived here, and 

 did not disclose anything serious. It did 

 revive enough in water, however, to show 

 some malformation in its structare. Thia 



