October 20, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



11 



charniiug. The flower is rather flat, of 

 Brunner type, of good size and said to 

 be of excellent keeping qualities. 



While a prediction on fickle fashion 's 

 fancies is a risk, Princeton has so many 

 trraces that a social success in Decem- 

 ber seems assured. 



The growing qualities of Princeton 

 are full of interest. The young plants 

 do not thrive under the usual culture 

 given Toses in pots. "When planted out, 

 Princeton grows like a weed; grows, too, 

 with a vigor that is amazing after a 

 crop has been produced; grows with a 

 freedom from blind wood that warms 

 the grower's heart. 



Old plants, cut back to produce stock 

 for this season 's planting, were the pic- 

 ture of health despite the tremendous 

 slaughter they had endured. Young 

 plants planted out of the cutting bed 

 were growing freely, while the bulk of 

 the stock produced under usual condi- 

 tions was excellent. Princeton, like Kil- 

 Jarney, requires disbudding to produce 



stems, and, to judge from a single visit, 

 requires plenty of water during the 

 growing season. 



Stockton & Howe have some 3,G00 

 plants of Princeton, set out in tables in 

 one house 20x316. They plan commenc- 

 ing to send cut flowers to their whole- 

 sale commission merchants in December. 

 Whether they will reserve this rose for 

 their own growing or will distribute it 

 next season, will be decided later. 



Phil. 



INSECTS ON KILLARNEYS. 



Enclosed you will find a young Kil- 

 larney bloom. It looks as if it were 

 eaten, but I can find nothing upon the 

 plants, which are healthy and beautiful. 

 They are second-year stock, on a solid 

 bed. Please tell me what the trouble is, 

 and the remedy. C. E. Y. 



This bud has been bitten by some 

 insect, probably a grasshopper, though 



there are some small caterpillars that 

 cause the same kind of destru-ction. 

 Spray the bushes witli the following 

 mixture, using a fine spraying nozzle: 

 Soft brown sugar, one pound; Paris 

 green, one teaspoonful. Mix these to 

 gether and use a tablcspoonful to every 

 two gallons of water. Spray twice a 

 week. " Ribes. 



ROSE APHIS. 



Our roses are troubled with the little 

 green lice or bugs. We have used a 

 kerosene emulsion and also tobacco 

 smoke, but without effect. What would 

 you advise using? They are on tin' 

 tender young leaves and seem to hf 

 sucking them. S. & L. 



The green bug or rose aphis can be 

 easily destroyed by using any of the 

 tobacco preparations, either in the form 

 of a spray or as a fumigant. Burning 

 tobacco stems or tobacco will also \w 

 effective. Ribes. 



SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 



Exhibition Plowers. 



In about two or three weeks more the 

 exhibitions will be claiming our atten- 

 tion and the interest in chrysanthemums 

 will be at fever heat. The weather has 

 been wretchedly bad for the proper de- 

 velopment of the flowers, in all sections 

 along the eastern seaboard. A day tem- 

 perature running up to the top of the 

 bulb and a night temperature of 70 de- 

 grees will never give the grower a 

 chance to show his best results. Many 

 reports contain bitter complaints that 

 all the best flowers have damped off and 

 that many of the flowers remaining do 

 not show the length or breadth of 

 petals usual to the variety when condi- 

 tions are favorable. 



Shading is essential on the roof of the 

 house where exhibition flowers are be- 

 ing grown. It will assist materially in 

 keeping down the temperature and will 

 protect the flowers from the blistering 

 sun. 



The grower this year who was a little 

 late in getting his buds will probably be 

 in a position to laugh at the man who 

 got his buds before the middle of 

 August, and is now reari)ing a whirlwind 

 of blasted hopes. 



One peculiar result of the intensely 

 hot spell is that the flowers are from 

 ten days to two weeks late in develop- 

 ing. This I have noticed in my own 

 stock, as well as in other stock I have 

 seen. This is, however, not a new expe- 

 rience, but has been noted in these 

 <olumns before. 



Some of the Newer Sorts. 



Looking over some of the newer things, 

 from an exhibition standpoint, it would 

 seem that Mrs. D. Syme is going to 

 make good where it has had the least 



ghost of a chance. The foliage and 

 stem are perfect and half a dozen flow- 

 ers that have already been cut were 

 simply models of perfection. 



W. Wood Mason, in the crimson sec- 

 tion, will be in a class by itSelf if it 

 finishes in the condition it now shows 

 promise of. The bugbear of all crim- 

 sons, damping, has so far not made its 

 appearance on this variety and the 

 petals are dropping down in a way to 

 gladden the heart of a mum enthusiast. 

 Another of last year's novelties, Mrs. 

 W. A. Read,' opened with splendid prom- 

 ise, but the larger flowers are damping 

 and it does not appear that this variety 

 will be shown as well as it deserves 

 to be. 



The giant Onunda is building up its 

 flowers the same as it did last year, and 

 w^e can look for some enormous flowers 

 to be staged of this particular variety. 

 Mrs. H. Stevens, W. Mease and W. Hots- 

 ton are each in line. 



The finest flower it has been my 

 pleasure to see so far this season is the 

 variety C. H. Totty. This does not 

 appear to mind the heat so much as 

 some other varieties that shade on the 

 same color. Leslie Morrison, Mrs. O. 

 H. Kahn and Yellow Miller are all 

 showing excellent promise at this time, 

 and our old friend Beatrice May will 

 unquestionably continue in her winning 

 ways. 



Beware of Overforcing. 



Chrysanthemums love a cool, moist 

 atmosphere, and heat is not desirable in 

 any stage of the plants' growth. Grow- 

 ers, occasionally, who are late with their 

 early stock, try to force it along by 

 the application of artificial heat. Such 

 heat is worse than wasted, for the 

 chrysanthemum, as has been repeatedly 

 ])roved, will not live up to its reputa- 

 tion unless it gets the proper natural 



conditions of cool, or even frosty nights 

 and clear days. 



It is a pity, after the work of a wliolc 

 season, that the pleasure of the flowers 

 should be crowded into a few weeks at 

 the most, but the' chrysanthemum en- 

 thusiast for the next week or two will 

 surely say to himself that life is well 

 worth the living. 



Where flowers that are wanted for 

 exhibition are opening too rapidly — and 

 this is quite liable to hapj>en — they can 

 be set away in a cool cellar from which 

 the most of the light has been excluded 

 and kept in perfect condition from two 

 to three weeks. I have often had flow- 

 ers kept in this way that traveled to a 

 show and remained in perfect condition 

 during a four or five days' exhibition, 

 while stock not so treated wilted down 

 the second day. Chas. H. Totty. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



Before the Philadelphia committee 

 October 13, a white sport of Glory of 

 Pacific exhibited by H. Weber & Sons 

 Co., Oakland, Md., scored for commer- 

 cial purposes as follows: Color, 17; 

 form, 13; fullness, 8; stem, 14; foliage, 

 13; substance, 13; size, 8; total, 86. 



Before the New York committee Oc- 

 tober 15, Chrysolora, Japanese incurved, 

 yellow, exhibited by Elmer D. Smith & 

 Co., Adrian, Mich., scored for commer- 

 cial purposes as follows: Color. 18; 

 form, 14; fullness, 10; stem, 14; foliage, 

 14; substance, 14; size, 9; total, 93. For 

 exhibition purposes as follows: Color, 

 9; stem, 5; foliage, 5; fullness, 15; form, 

 12; depth, 12; size, 29; total, 87. 



Before the Cincinnati committee Oc- 

 tober 8, Unaka, incurved Japanese, 

 satiny pink, exhibited by Elmer D. 

 Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored for 



