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The Florists^ Review 



Febru-\ky 20, 1013. 



night, with good soil. Use such varie- 

 ties as Brenehleyensis, Augusta and 

 America, which are all excellent sellers. 



C. W. 



PRIMULAS DOING POORLY. 



\Vill you please tell us what is wrong 

 with our primroses? They grew well 

 until potted from the seed pans to 3- 

 iiicli pots; then the leaves on a lot 

 of them turned brown, as if they had 

 been scalded. We sent some of the 

 affected plants to our experiment sta- 

 tion, but they could not help us in any 

 way, but said the soil was all right. We 

 dumpf'd ail the bad ones, hoping for 

 bettor results. Then we'potted a lot 

 of thoin from 3-inch to 4-inch pots, but 

 they nearly all went to the bad. We 

 still liave a lot of the same primulas 

 in 3-inch pots that are crowded and 

 covered with white fly, but are full of 



a liberal dash of sharp sand in it. The 

 obconicas will stand a little more feed- 

 ing than Sinensis. 



You can hardly have perfectly 

 healthy plants if they are covered with 

 white fly. You should get rid of these 

 at all hazards. Hydrocyanic acid gas, 

 applied as often recommended in The 

 Eeview, will externuaAte them, though 

 more than one dose mSfy be necessary to 

 do this. If you do not want to use gas, 

 you can much reduce the numbers of 

 the pest by spraying freely with com- 

 mon soap and water or by using fir 

 tree oil or some other of the many 

 insecticides on the market. 



One other point: Tl^ watering with 

 a can in preference to the constant use 

 of the hose. It may mean more labor, 

 but it will at the same time give you 

 far better plants, as the best plants- 

 men in the country can testify. 



C. W. 



PROPAGATING CINCINNATI. 



Please let me know about propagat- 

 ing Begonia Glory of Cincinnati from 

 leaf cuttings. Should I leave the cut- 

 tings in the sand until the yoUng shoots 

 appear, or should I pot them as soon 

 as they are rooted? L. V. 



It is better to wait until the young 

 shoots appear at the bottom of the leaf 

 stalk. If you have cut oflf the entire 

 leaf stalk, with a portion of the stem 

 on which it was produced attached, you 

 will get the earliest and best results. 



C. W. 



ON VALENTINE'S DAY. 



One of the accompanying illustrations 

 shows a portion of the store of the 

 E. C. Amling Co., Chicago, photographed 

 on the afternoon of St. Valentine's day, 

 while the other picture shows the ofiice. 

 At the right sits E. C. Amling, presi- 

 dent of the corporation. In the left 

 foreground is John Michelsen, manager. 

 From the appearance, the camera caught 

 the gentlemen in the midst of an im- 

 portant business discussion, but the 

 chances are that the serious expression 

 is merely the result of an attempt to 

 keep from grinning when the snapshot 

 artist said, "Look pleasant, please." 



A St. Valentine's Day View in the Store of the E. C. Amling Co., Chicago. 



GOWEN'S INVENTION. 



Fred Gowen, who does a prosperous 

 general florists' business at Peabody, 

 Kan., recently has turned inventor and 

 has procured a patent on what he calls 

 the Yankee glazing strip. He describes 

 it as follows: 



' ' A company has been formed to 

 manufacture the article and we expect 

 to begin the manufacture by March 

 15. The factory^ and headquarters will 

 be located in Kansas City, Mo., and 

 the business will be conducted under 

 the name of the Yankee Glazing 

 Strip Co. 



' ' I believe we have an article which 

 will appeal to the majority of owners 

 or operators of greenhouses. It is in- 

 tended to be placed in the roofs of 

 greenhouses and is inserted between the 

 edges of the glass, where the panes lap, 

 forming a combination lock, stop and 



hmls and bloom and seem perfectly 

 liealthy. We are afraid to touch them, 

 through fear of their hitting the same> 

 trail. AVe try to hold the temperature 

 at 50 degrees at night and from 10 to 

 20 degrees higher in the daytime. Our 

 Cliineso primroses are in the colder 

 end of tlio house, where the plants of 

 this kind have always been kept with 

 success, but they decay at the top of 

 the ground and then pine away and die. 

 All the ydants liave been watered alike 

 with the hose when dry. A dose of 

 cyanido. according to your directions, 

 failed to kill the flies, after some of 

 the jniniulas had turned brown, with 

 few. if any, flies on them. O. A. K. 



Tho trouble, I shouM say, is in your 

 soil. It is probably too heavy, too 

 acid or too full of manure. Most likely 

 too great acidity is the cause of the 

 plants acting as they have done. Prim- 

 ulas require a light and only moderately 

 rich soil, not so strong as you would 

 use for calceoKtrias, cinerarias or gera- 

 niums. To the loam should be added 

 some loaf-mold; or, if that is not to be 

 had. some fine, well-decayed manure, 

 dried well and free from worms, with 



Office of the E. C. Amling Co., Chicago, with President and Manager in Foreground 



