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APRIL 22, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



that I could not determine what had 

 caused the shriveling. Insects do not 

 trouble seedling asters much. Sometimes 

 if stood on a sunny shelf near steam 

 pipes and allowed to become dry at the 

 root, red spider will attack them. I am 

 inclined to the opinion that you have 

 allowed them to become too dry at the 

 root. After this date you will find that 

 seed sown in coldframes will do better 

 than if started in the greenhouse. C. W. 



HOW OLD IS ANN? 



Leonard Kill, manager of Peter Rein- 

 berg's Chicago store, will be 37 May 5. 

 He was born amid the ruins of the great 

 Chicago fire. 



April 29 William A. Peterson will have 

 lived 42 years at Peterson Nursery, Chi- 

 cago. His hobbies are his peonies, his 

 Indian relics and his directorship in the 

 State Bank of Chicago. 



Frank H. Traendly, of Traendly & 

 Schenck, New York, is 42. At the last 

 meeting of the S. A. F. he presided with 

 great dignity, but, for all that, no man 

 more dearly loves his little joke. 



Miss Martha C. Gunterberg, Chicago's 

 one woman commission man, was 27 a 

 few days before Christmas. She for- 

 merly was buyer for a retail store that 

 uses a lot of stock, so she knows all the 

 plays in the game. 



W. H. Elliott, Brighton, Mass., is 51, 

 born at Lancaster, Wis. He believes that 

 no matter how much money you are 

 going to spend for rose houses, one ridge- 

 pole is all you should buy — put it all 

 under one roof. His latest house is over 

 a quarter mile long. 



William K. Harris, the Deacon, was 

 75 March 10. Meeting him for the first 

 time, you wouldn't imagine his green- 

 houses in Philadelphia are glazed with 

 plate glass — but some of them are. The 

 Harrisii lily is named for him. 



Hugh Wood, well known in the Chi- 

 cago market, is almost 68 and a reader 

 of the Eeview since its first issue, al- 

 though he cannot see at all. He was 

 born in Lancashire, England. Since his 

 sight failed he has had the paper read 

 aloud to him each week by his caretaker. 



Eugene Dailledouze, of Flatbush, is 50 

 and president of the New York Cut 

 Flower Co. His recent appointment as 

 director of the S. A, F. revealed the 

 fact that he has two middle initials — 

 J. G. — ^he thought he had given the shake 

 long ago. E. J. G. Dailledouze! Do you 

 recognize himf 



SWEET PEAS DYING. 



Can you teU me why our sweet pea 

 leaves turn brown? There is no sign of 

 spider on them. We have been cutting 

 from these vines from Thanksgiving un- 

 til now, but have kept well cultivated 

 and fed. Our bench is down on the 

 ground, with six inches of cinders in the 

 l)ottom. Would the cinders affect them? 

 How long can the plants be kept in good 

 condition? J. G. B. 



The cinders are the most probable 

 cause of the foliage turning brown. You 

 do not state your reasons for using six 

 inches of cinders. If your land is well 

 'Irained there is no need of them, as 

 sweet peas are rather deep rooting and 

 will not find much stimulus from the 

 ashes. If your plants have flowered from 

 Thanksgiving until now and have car- 

 ried good stems, you have no cause for 

 complaint. This is as long a season as 



sweet peas can be expected to continue 

 in crop. 



Sweet peas like a generous soil. I 

 would advise removal of the ashes for 

 another season. Give your beds a dress- 

 ing of three inches of good cow manure. 

 Work over the soil two spits deep and 

 you will be surprised how your peas will 

 thrive in it. C. W. 



ASTERS UNDER GLASS. 



I would like your advice as to growing 

 asters in greenhouses. The soil is good 

 and enriched, lettuce now growing in it, 

 but when that crop is off I wish to put 

 in asters. The ridge is ten feet and the 

 side walls average two feet. I have 

 water in the house. The temperature in 

 hot weather is from 95 to 100 degrees. 

 Wonld you advise shading the house? 

 Last season I had asters in the same 

 house and kept it shaded, but they were 

 a failure. The asters frenched and would 

 perish away. The location is Tennessee. 

 M. E. H. 



There is no reason why you cannot 

 grow a good crop of asters in such a 



house as you describe. After clearing 

 off your lettuce crop, give the beds a 

 good dressing of well decayed manure 

 iand spade or fork it over. I presume 

 you have solid beds, not raised benches. 

 Lettuce succeeds best in the former, and 

 after this date the asters also prefer 

 them. The plants should not require any 

 shading until the flowers commence to 

 open, when a coating will be an ad- 

 vantage. Asters require abundant ven- 

 tilation and a good water supply, and the 

 soil must be constantly stirred to keep 

 them in a good growing condition. 



Red spider will occasionally attack 

 them under glass in hot, dry weather, but 

 if you keep a fairly moist, growing at- 

 mosphere and spray overhead regularly, 

 this should not trouble you. I think you 

 should be able to produce better asters 

 indoors than outdoors in your latitude. 



C. W. 



Worcester, Mass. — A. H. Lange esti- 

 mates that the people of Worcester spent 

 $7,000 for lilies alone this year. While 

 the lily was the leader, all ofher stock 

 sold well. 



