0,,^,KR 21, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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0,1 1 batch of these plants -will fur- 

 °"h abum'ant material for cutting and 

 "'n bri"liten up many a dreary border 

 "f r tbi" tender stock has been cut down 

 "frost The habit of all the seedlings 

 ^-'Lod ;.ud the color of the whites and 

 '^in«^ i very clean now that the sun is 

 SEin; i n^power. C. H. T. 



CFOP TO FOLLOW MUMS. 



Woul" you kindly inform me what 

 uould ' 'lie a good, profitable crop to 

 ilant ill ">u"i benches after the mums are 



thrown i.it. 



A. H. M. 



There are several crops that can be 

 used to fill in a house after the mums 

 ire goii-'. but local conditions must sug- 

 trest to A. H. M. which would be most 

 profital-li' for him. Many growers use 

 tlie housi's for their bedding stock, and 

 where there is a demand for such stock 

 there is f,'ood money in it. A grower of 

 inv acquaintance uses his houses for let- 

 tuce nitrcly taking out the plants and 

 turning up the soil to give it a chance to 

 sweeten for a few days before planting 

 the young lettuce. 



Most growers today use the houses for 

 sweet pias, sowing the seed in pots five 

 iir six weeks before the mums are cut out, 

 and saving that much time on the crop. 

 The sweet peas can be sown at the rate 

 iif four seeds or so in a 4-inch pot and 

 the pots set out a foot apart in the rows, 

 iif course removing the pot afterward and 

 setting the ball in the bench. This effects 

 a saviiig of at least a month over waiting 

 and sowing the seed directly in the 

 bench. C. H. ToTTY. 



THE CELERY FLY ON MUMS. 



We found on our chrysanthemum 

 leaves spots which looked as if they had 

 becu l)urnt by the sun. Upon investi- 

 giitieii we discovered that small maggots 

 had started at the edge of the leaf, 

 burrowing toward the center and lifting 

 the top skin off the leaf, but making no 

 opening. At this date they are about 

 "ne-fdurth inch long. As we cannot get 

 at tliein with edible poison, and as they 

 are ]irotected against fumigating, we 

 have hdcn picking off the infested leaves. 



This is the first time Ave have ever 

 been Iroublea with it. What kind of 

 insect is it and what are the proper 

 remedies? A. F. C. 



Tlir insect is the larva of Tephritis 

 ono]M,,.iinis, I believe. It is the same 

 pest ihat causes lots of trouble to the 

 cek'i\ grower and is occasionally met 

 ^^ith ii other fleshy leaved plants, such 

 'IS li irarias. The egg is deposited in 

 the ]. f^ between the two layers or skins, 

 ''"d soon as the larva; are hatched 

 ""^y it away all the tissue between the 

 "I'P' i and lower skin of the leaf, skele- 

 tuiu/ jr the leaf if left alone. Poisons 

 ^^ " ; touch them, because they do not 

 eat 11,. outer skin, and if a strong dose 

 "* 1 'dicide is used, while it will kill 



""^, 'lib, it will also render the leaf 



uspI. . ,_ 



I "■■ only safe cure is to pick off and 

 l^'l'" he infested leaves, though one can 



ami 



•eezing the leaf between the thumb 

 ^^ ' linger kill the grub if the leaf is 

 !^- .^'i.ghtly marked, and thus retain 

 ],„■ ^"liage that may be necessary. I 

 ^^^' not heard of any preparation that 

 Pcsi 1 ^^^^'y used in combating this 

 ]>n ' .^^^^^ oi necessity any insecticide 

 '^^"I'ul enough to penetrate the skin 



PHONE 



LAKE VIEW 



557 



Now is ihc time to plant your Shrubs, Trees. Plants 

 and Bulbs for Spring. 



They will be ready to grow the very first thing next 

 Spring. 



You can decide on the varieties that you want and 

 have them set without any nuh or hurry 



Fall is Nature's tima fo. planting. 



Maybe you would like a plan for planting your ^aiden. 

 We'll furnish a plan free. All you have to do is to phone 

 for our Landscape Man. He will make you a plan and 

 give you all the information that you desire without any 

 cost to you. 



Don't put it off 'Phone us to-day 



Phont Lake View SS7 



Next apnng you will apprecute this suggestion of (all planting 

 when you see how the Shrubs. Ftants oi Trees will slait to bud and 

 vigorously grow all summer 



Send for ouf beautiful am- 

 cotor calajog It gives ttie 

 common uid the L.atin names 

 and the description of all the de- 

 arable Shrub Trees and Rants. 

 You %vill be surprised and 

 delichted wkh the information 

 Sead forowmaa. 'PtMoeus- that it contains. 



PHONE LAKE VIEW ii7 



WITTBOLD 



7)7-739 Buckingham PUce 

 CHICAGO 



BRANCH NLffUERY N..^ ..d Cwid Sim>. Cmm 

 PHONES EVANJTON ttt ..d WILMETTE i;04 



We do Soddng. Grading and Tran i planlmg. in fact everything 

 ' > widi L.aadKape Gardening. 



Tlwte is nothing prettief in 

 Am Spring than a bed of Tulips. 

 Hyadndis. Cracus. Dafodib 

 ,elc 



Mow is the tine diey aMsl 



m 



A Catchy Advertisement Used by the GeOa Wittbold Co.* Chicago. 



of the leaf and kill the grub will also 

 kill any leaf that it might come in con- 

 tact with. C. H. TOTTY. 



AUTUMN PLANTING. 



The business of the George Wittbold 

 Co., Chicago, has been growing at a rapid 

 rate the last few years, but in no one 

 of the many departments into which the 

 business is divided has there been more 

 rapid increase than in the garden work. 

 There are not many firms in their city 

 that are equipped to take care of any 

 order that may come along, an order for 

 a single load of soil, or an order for a 

 complete landscape plan and its execu- 

 tion; nor are there many firms which 

 advertise as persistently as do the "Witt- 

 bolds. 



For many years the Wittbold establish- 

 ment has done a big business in spring 

 planting — bedding out, as it usually is 

 called — and even with the increased fa- 

 cilities provided by the Edgebrook nurs- 

 ery, and the increased staff, the spring 

 trade is all that can be handled in the 

 limned time. It early was apparent that 

 the greatest opportunity for development 

 of the outdoor work lay in pushing the 

 fall planting, and each year the amount 

 of hardy stock and bulbs planted in 

 autumn has increased rapidly. In addi- 

 tion to newspaper advertising, the Witt- 

 bold Co. has a list of addresses of cus- 

 tomers and possible customers, to whom 

 a letter or circular is sent once a month, 

 sometimes advertising one department of 

 the business and sometimes advertising 

 another. The accompanying illustration 

 is a reproduction of a circular sent out 



early in October in the interest of the 

 fall planting. 



The circular was 10x12, printed in 

 three colors, and was prepared by C. S. 

 Richardson, the advertising designer in 

 the Marquette building, Chicago, who 

 works up these drawings for the Witt- 

 bolds. The circular was made to enclose 

 itself by tucking two folds together, so 

 that no envelope was required. On that 

 part which then became the front of the 

 circular, in the upper left-hand corner, 

 was a neat card reading "Plant now 

 for spring," and in the lower comer, 

 with the firm 's name and address, "was 

 a notice to the postmaster to notify in 

 case of nondelivery, so that return post- 

 age could be sent. By this method and 

 at the expense of only a penny for each 

 dead name the mailing list is kept re- 

 vised to date. 



NAME OF FUCHSIA. 



I am sending you a sample of a fuch- 

 sia flower. Please give me the name of 

 the variety. I have been growing it for 

 eight or nine years and find it the best 

 single fuchsia. L. P. F. 



The name of this variety of fuchsia is 

 Black Prince. C. 



Bridgeton, N. J. — Theodore E. Ed- 

 wards, the Irving avenue florist, will 

 open a store on East Commerce street. 



WiLLOUGHBY, O.— The H. E. Carlton 

 greenhouses and residence property havo 

 been purchased by James B. Knight and 

 Archie B. Wilson, of Mentor, O. 





