Decbmbbb 21, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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until winter, and then take possession 

 of the only house I keep warm for win- 

 ter. They even come into our dwell- 

 ing and give the family an all-winter's 

 fight and are worst on fuchsias. We 

 cannot use the gas in our home and 

 we fight them with nicotine, which is 

 an up-hill tussle. They just love let- 

 tuce, and during the past fall, when I 

 was most alert, they had a feast on 

 some plants in flats. Elmer D. Smith, 

 in a recent article in The Keview, about 

 mums, says he prefers the sodium to 

 the potassium form of cyanide for fight- 

 ing aphis. In my small way and small 

 house I have little opportunity for ex- 

 periment, and I am reading all I see 

 in all the printed matter, hoping for 

 the best and ready to adopt anything 

 that will kill the plant-grower's ene- 

 mies, F. P. Avery. 



WHITE FLY ON COLEUS. 



Two weeks ago I received a shipment 

 of plants, including some coleus, from a 

 large wholesale house. In looking over 

 the plants a few days ago, I found the 

 ooleus had some insects on them, I have 

 not been able to find out what the pests 

 are, so I enclose some of the old ones 

 and those just hatching out. Please let 

 me know what they are and how to get 

 rid of them. L. M. D. 



The leaves forwarded were badly in- 

 fested with white fly, one of the worst 

 pests we have to control under glass. It 

 is specially bad on coleus, calceolarias, 

 cinerarias, show pelargoniums, alter- 

 nantheras, heliotropes, fuchsias and to- 

 matoes, but attacks quite a few other 

 plants. You can reduce their numbers 

 considerably by spraying with ordinary 

 soap and water (such a soap as Ivory 

 answers well), but the only way to 

 really exterminate them is by the use of 

 hydrocyanic acid gas. Formulas for the 

 use of this gns have frequently ap- 

 peared in The Review, It must be used 

 with great care, being deadly to animal 

 life of every kind. It will also scorch 

 some plants of a tender nature. It 

 should be used on a cool night, when 

 danger of injury to the plants is much 

 minimized. C. W, 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business was not at all brisk last 

 week. On the two closing days almost 

 continual rain greatly affected trade, 

 and there was a considerable unsold sur- 

 plus in many lines. The present week 

 sees a little more activity prevailing, 

 but considerable more life must be put 

 into the market before the week closes. 

 Carnations are not in particularly heavy 

 crop and the Christmas supply will not 

 be so large as in some recent years. 

 The unusually warm weather has made 

 flowers soft and there are many com- 

 plaints of their going to sleep soon after 

 arrival. So far there is no notable 

 advance in price, but colored varieties 

 are expected to make $8 to $10 per hun- 

 dred, while others will probably mako 

 $3 to $6. Whites will be the hardest to 

 move. Eoses are abundant, but sell quite 

 well. Beauties are fine and sell well, 

 Eichmonds from some growers also are 

 superb, as are Ehea Eeids. White Kil- 

 larney sells slowly. Pink moves much 

 better. All the yellow varieties are 

 in good demand. Brides and Maids have 

 practically disappeared from this 

 market. 



Thomas Pegler. 



(President-elect Boston Oardeners' and Florists' Club.) 



Violets have sold only moderately of 

 late. Growers are holding them for 

 Christmas, Paper Whites are druggy 

 and there are too many Eoman hya- 

 cinths. Some small lots of white tulips, 

 yellow trumpet narcissi, sweet scented 

 jonquils, iris and freesia are arriving. 

 All these are in demand. Yellow mar- 

 guerites are eagerly bought and so is 

 pink snapdragon. There is a fine sale 

 for calendulas, but cosmos moves poorly. 

 Good mignonette sells well. Stevia is 

 good, but too abundant. Poinsettias are 

 ofifered all the way from $2 to $6 per 

 dozen. Cattleyas are not plentiful, but 

 the demand is only moderate. There 

 are far too many cypripediums. Sweet 

 peas are as abundant as in summer, 

 with a weak demand as the week opens. 

 Valley is abundant. Good lilies have 

 been in demand. Gardenias when good in 

 quality bring excellent prices. No one 

 seems to want the seconds. 



There has been a brisk demand for 

 Asparagus Sprengeri and plumosus, as 

 well as smilax. The latter is now little 

 grown here. Holly and other Christmas 

 greenery never sold so well before. 

 Plant business has been unusually 

 heavy, and the warm weather has 

 greatly favored growers, little wrapping 

 being necessary. Poinsettias are about 

 all sold out and the demand for azaleas, 

 primroses, begonias, ardisias and other 

 seasonable plants was never better. As 

 illustrating the difference in climatic 

 conditions, we may say that December 

 16, 1910, the maximum temperature was 

 13 degrees and the minimum 10 degrees 

 below zero, the lowest of the winter. 

 The same day this year the thermometer 

 was in the forties all day. 



Club Meeting. 



There was a splendid attendance at 

 the meeting of the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club December 19, when one new 

 name was added to the membership roll. 

 OflScers for 1912 were elected as fol- 

 lows: President, Thomas Pegler; vice- 

 president, Wm. J. Kennedy; secretary, 

 W, N, Craig; treasurer, Peter Fisher; 

 executive committee, P, M. Miller, H. H. 

 Bartsch, Wm. Sim, W. J. Patterson. 



Exhibits were numerous. Baur & 

 Steinkamp, Indianapolis, showed St. 

 Nicholas, the blooms showing up splen- 

 didly though they were the same flow- 

 ers that had been on exhibition at Fram- 

 ingham when the club held its outing 

 December 16. W. W. Edgar Co. showed 

 a fine collection of azaleas, begonias 

 and poinsettias. R. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co, showed Begonia La Patrie, Thomas 

 Coles showed Coleus thyrsoideus and 

 Primula malacoides, W. N, Craig ex- 

 hibited a collection of twenty-five zonale 

 geraniums, receiving a report of merit. 

 F. E. Palmer showed a scarlet tulip and 

 a fine type of solanum. Gerhardt Bleick- 

 en showed new hybrid freesias. H. 

 Huebner showed a new winter flowering 

 snapdragon, well thought of by the com- 

 mittee. James Wheeler also showed 

 splendid snapdragon. 



F. E. Palmer gave a talk on the use 

 of dynamite as an aid in horticulture. 

 Numerous questions were answered. It 

 was decided to hold a banquet after 

 Easter, 



Club Field Day. 



After two weeks of warm weather, 

 a rain started December 15 and lasted 



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