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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 21, 1910. 



THRIPS. 



I am sending a package containing a 

 carnation bloom, bud and cutting. The 

 blooms do not open properly. The va- 

 riety is Lieut. Peary. Other carnations 

 in the same bench are free from the 

 trouble. The plants of Peary grow well, 

 but there are light spots on £ome of 

 the leaves, and the petals have dried 

 edges. Any information you can give 

 me will be greatly appreciated. N. E. 



The specimens forwarded showed 

 plainly the ravages of thrips. Whenever 

 you see those brown edges on white va- 

 rieties, or white spots on the petals of 

 colored varieties, you may take it as a 

 signal to get busy. Nicotine, adminis- 

 tered in any form, is the standard rem- 

 edy for destroying this pest. 



There is considerable difference of 

 opinion among growers as to the rela- 

 tive merits of fumigating and spraying. 

 Some use both methods, and sometimes 

 one method may be preferable and some- 

 times the other, according to circum- 

 stances. We use the spraying method 

 altogether, and we think that on places 

 where flowers are cut every day it is the 

 best. We can spray any day without in- 

 terfering with the cutting of the blooms, 

 as no odor is left on the blooms a few 

 hours after the spraying is done. The 

 odor from the fumes does not disappear 

 so quickly. We use a compressed air 

 sprayer and a medium spraying nozzle. 



Get a quantity at once and spray three 

 times each week until you see the trouble 

 disappearing. After that once each week 

 will likely be enough. Of the forty or 

 forty-five per cent solutions, use three tea- 

 spoonfuls to each gallon of water. Each 

 gallon of this mixture should spray 800 to 

 1,000 square feet of bench space thor- 

 oughly. . 



We have noticed that early in the 

 morning, before the sun is strong, the 

 insects are most numerous on the out- 

 side of the buds. When the sun gets 

 up higher they seem to disappear from 

 view. From this you can readily see 

 that the bejt time for spraying is early 

 in the morning or on a cloudy day. 

 Evaporation is not so rapid then, either, 

 and the effect should be better for that 

 reason. „ ., 



Get rid of them at once, for if you 

 wait until really warm weather sets in, 

 they will multiply so fast that you will 

 be unable to get rid of them at all. 



ROHRER'S STRASBURG PLACE. 



A N Kohrer is one of the well known 

 growers at Strasburg, Pa., where the 

 photographs for the accompanying illus- 

 trations were made, March 20 Mr 

 Bohrer's establishment consists of about 

 7 000 feet of glass. He is a carnation 

 specialist, one of those marketing stock 

 through the Leo Niessen Co., Philadel- 

 phia, but also grows bedding plants, and 

 sweet peas and asters in their seasons. 

 The illustrations will serve to show how 



thoroughly up-to-date are Mr. Rohrer's 

 houses. The varieties grown are Lawson, 

 Winsor, Enchantress, White Perfection 

 and Beacon, and the season's perform- 

 ance of Lawson shows that it is not yet 

 the least profitable of the quintette of 

 varieties. He employs field culture for 

 his stock, planting outdoors as early as 

 circumstances will permit and lifting 

 about August 1. In the larger illustra- 

 tion Mr. Eohrer stands in the path at 

 the left of a bench of Enchantress, with 

 his son, J. H. Eohrer, in the path at the 



HYACINTH SPIKES DECAYING. 



I am mailing you two samples of hya- 

 cinths and would like to know what is the 

 trouble with them. I potted them the 

 last week in October and placed them in 

 an underground cellar, and they grew 

 well. I have grown hyacinths for four- 



Cutting Carnations at A. N. Rohrer's. 



teen years and never had a failure be- 

 fore. Out of 100 bulbs I did not have 

 one fit to sell this year. I kept them 

 watered and brought them out to flower 

 for Easter, but the flowers never grew 

 after being brought up. They were 

 placed on a light bench in a temperature 

 of 45 degrees at night and from 50 to 

 60 degrees during the day. D. S. 



The bulbs sent had each an abundance 

 of healthy roots. The foliage also was 

 good, while the flower spikes had evi- 

 dently rotted after being so far ad- 

 vanced. The mere fact that the roots 

 and foliage were healthy and normal 

 would seem to indicate that an excess of 



water had been poured over the foliage, 

 which had caused rotting of the spikes. 

 In a light, sunny house water would not 

 much matter, as the moisture would soon 

 dry, but in a dark, damp ceUar it would 

 assuredly cause the trouble you have expe- 

 rienced. Applied to narcissi, tulips and 

 almost any other bulbs, water would do 

 no harm, but hyacinth spikes just push- 

 ing up are easily rotted, unless you water 

 around the sides of the pots. C. W, 



CAMPHORATED TOBACCO STEMS. 



I read an article some time ago which 

 stated that camphor water sprinkled on 

 tobacco stems would make them more 

 effective when burned. Please tell me 

 how the camphor water is prepared and 

 how strong it is used. E. A. W, 



The usrikl strength of camphorated 

 water to be used to sprinkle tobacco 

 stems is one ounce of camphor to one 

 gallon of water. It can be used much 

 stronger than this, however, with per- 

 fect safety. 



As to its efficacy when used in this 

 form, I have my doubts. Eibes. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



A heavy rain storm, the culmination of 

 the southern and western storms, swept 

 down upon New York and vicinity April 

 17, and before Monday noon had dissi- 

 pated all the bad effects of the late 

 heat and drought and evened up the 

 average April rainfall. Clearing skies 

 appeared late Monday — too late for the 

 opening ball game of the season — and 

 many a florist's heart ached with disap- 

 pointment, for though few of them are 

 baseball fans, like Will Gunther and his 

 brothers, yet most of them take in the 

 opening game of the Giants, just as they 

 did the debut of the American League 

 Thursday, April 14, and that seems to 

 satisfy most of these busy men for the 

 balance of the summer. The weather 

 must have been made to order for the 

 nurserymen and seedsmen. Everything 

 this year seems to be coming their way. 



Prices in the cut flower market are 

 better, and though the advance has been 

 only slight, it is encouraging to all con- 

 cerned. Beauties, if selected, sold at 

 25 cents Saturday, April 16, and fine 

 Bride, Maid and Killarney easily com- 

 manded 6 cents for the best. To quote 

 a price on small lots is not fair to either 

 grower or wholesaler. The quotations I 

 endeavor to give are at hundred rates. 

 The surplus and the thousand lots are a 

 problem that must be solved by those 

 most interested. 



Prices are better also for carnations; 

 2 cents to 3 cents was the asking price 

 Saturday for the selected stock. The day- 

 old and sleepy stock is on the street. 

 Dozens of merchants, with their stores 

 in their baskets, infest the leading 

 streets. Every one of them should be 

 forced to take out a license and pay for 

 his privileges. But they get rid of the 

 surplus; so, after all, it may be as well 

 to let them alone. They will soon be 

 off to the summer resorts, and we will see 

 no more of them until October. 



Fine gardenias still arrive in goodly 

 quantity and prices are now shaded so 

 that all the good stores handle them 

 freely. Cattleyas hold at 75 cents for 

 the best, and more of them could be sold. 

 Lilies bring better figures, 6 cents for 

 the best being easily obtainable. Valley, 



