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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Seftbubbr 14, 1911. 



the whole room, unless your photog- 

 rapher is equipped with a revolving 

 camera. For instance, a wedding altar, 

 a mantel or a doorway may be suffi- 

 cient for each picture. 



Free-hand Sketches. 



For new and original work, free-hand 

 sketches are the best. A certain class 

 of trade wishes designs never before 

 used in the city, and yoh must be able, 

 without previous study, to suggest 

 plans that are both novel and suited 

 to individual tastes. You must be able 



to ^aflp the architect's idea and sup- 

 plement his work with your decorations. 

 You must respect his structure and not 

 go contrary to his forms and lines. 

 You may talk to many jjersons of 

 what you propose to do for them till 

 you are black in the face, and if you 

 can not show them a picture or sketch 

 they are none the wiser. Therefore, 

 draw a few sketches — whether you can 

 or not. Whether the drawing is ex- 

 cellent or not, it shows your ability in 

 new situations and your general pre- 

 paredness. G. B. 



WHEN TO TAKE BUDS. 



"When is it safe to take buds on Shaw, 

 Enguehard and Yellow BonnafFon? 



S. S. 



It is safe enough to take the bud at 

 any time now on all these varieties. If 

 it is desired to have Enguehard and 

 Yellow Bonnaffon quite late, the pres- 

 sent late crown can be rubbed off and 

 thei grower can wait for the terminal, 

 which will appear in two or three 

 weeks, but, so far as safety goes, it is 

 perfectly safe to take the buds any 

 time now. 



Charles H. Totty. 



TAKING THE BXJDS. 



This beitfg our first season in growing 

 mums, we should like to ask you when 

 to take buds on the following chrysan- 

 themums, of which we have about 50,000 

 plants, with the stems so far in good, 

 healthy condition: One and a half 

 houses of Yellow Bonnafifon, one bench 

 of "White Bonnafifon, one large house 

 of Dr. Enguehard, one house of Presi- 

 dent Taft, one bench of Donatello, one 

 bench of Edmond Albe, one house of 

 Timothy Eaton and J. Nonin, four lower 

 benches of Ivory, two benches of Golden 

 Glow, with buds well matured, and 

 about three houses of singles, pompons, 

 etc. So far we have left the latter 

 varieties to grow at their will. If you 

 can help us to this information we shall 

 be grateful to you, as our success will 

 largely depend on the mums. Z. & S. ^ 



Any time now is perfectly safe^to 

 take the buds. Ivory, in fact, should 

 have been taken two weeks ago to get 

 the best results. 



The singles and pompons need but 

 little disbudding. The idea with them 

 is to cut them in sprays and it does 

 not pay to disbud them down, trying 

 to get large flowers out of them. It 

 left to grow much at their own sweet 

 will and loosely looped up, they will 

 make beautiful natural sprays that will 

 sell on sight. If it is desired to have 

 some mums in flower from Thanksgiv- 

 ing to Christmas, I would suggest that 

 Jeanne Nonin, Dr. Enguehard and Yel- 

 low Bonnaffon be left growing as long 

 as possible; that is, if the buds which 

 the plants are at present showing are 

 crown buds, these buds can be rubbed 

 off and the side shoots left on to 

 make a terminal bud. If the buds now 



showing are terminals, of course, this 

 can not be done, but the crop can be 

 held back by keeping the houses eold. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



BOTH HAVE FUNGOUS DISEASE. 



Enclosed you will find two leaves of 

 mums which are affected with some 

 disease. Please inform me as to a 

 remedy. E. D. R 



I am enclosing some leaves of the 

 mum, Pennsylvania. There is quite a 

 batch of this mum, the leaves of which 

 are turning brown in this manner. We 

 are careful in watering. When they 

 were planted the soil was mixed with 



well rotted cow manure, and within 

 the last few weeks they have had one 

 dose of weak manure water, one water- 

 ing of Totty 's fertilizer at the rate of 

 one pound to a barrel, and a coating 

 of lime. We have half of this bed 

 planted with Pennsylvania and the 

 other half with McNiece. The latter 

 are not aflfected, and are a dark, 

 healthy green down to the soil. What 

 is the remedy? R. E. 



The leaves sent by both of these in- 

 quirers are affected with a disease 

 which is common to chrysanthemums, 

 particularly at this season of the year, 

 and is called septoria. It is a fungoid 

 disease and is caused by moisture and 

 lack of air. At this season of the 

 year, when the plants have made con- 

 siderable growth, only a little air can 

 get through the foliage in the center of 

 the benches and it is there that most 

 of the leaf disease starts. If the plants 

 are not affected too far up the stem, 

 the disease does no great harm; in 

 fact, it is rather an advantage, if the 

 leaves are picked off, as it lets more 

 light and air get to the bed. If the 

 plants are Tiadly diseased, the*4ww«dy 

 is to pick off all affected leaves, keep 

 the foliage dry, and spray with a so- 

 lution of sulphide of potassium in the 

 proportion of one ounce to two gal- 

 lons of water. 



Pennsylvania, the mum which has 

 been bothering R. E. in this way, is 

 a weak grower and always was more or 

 less affected with this trouble. The use 

 of the solution of sulphide of potas- 

 sium, combined with care in keeping 

 the foliage as dry as possible, will 

 serve as a remedy. 



Charles H. Totty. 



SWEET PEAS DAMPING OFF. 



We have a house of sweet peas 

 which were planted twenty days ago 

 from 2-inch pots, in both pink and 

 white varieties. They are rotting off 

 at the ground. We mixed half rotted 

 manure with the soil and only watered 

 moderately, just as we would other 

 young plants at this time of the 

 year. "Would you kindly suggest a 

 remedy? We used four wheelbarrow 

 loads of manure to a 100-foot bench. 

 The soil is black loam. Would it be 

 advisable to plant in hills? 



Your soil would seem to have been 

 suitably prepared for sweet peas. Are 

 you quite sure that the drainage is 

 good, and also that the soil is not too 

 acid? It would be well to test it with 

 blue litmus paper and find its acidity. 

 If found acid, lime should be used to 

 correct it. Too deep planting would 

 cause damping off, especially if a spell 

 of sultry weather should ensue right 

 after planting. If your soil is all 

 right there should be no need of plant 



ing in hills; all growers of sweet peas 

 that I know of, sow or plant on level 

 ground. 



The danger of damping off is much 

 greater in hot than in cool weather. A 

 too close atmosphere is also bad; keep 

 an abundance of ventilation both at 

 the top and sides of the house and do 

 not use any shade on the glass. If your 

 peas had reached any considerable 

 length in the small pots and were 

 planted rather deep to somewhat im- 

 prove their looks, this alone would 

 cause the trouble. Do not coddle the 

 plants; better keep them at 40 to 45 

 degrees at night until the flower spikes 

 appear, then advance the temperature 

 a few degrees. 



C. W. 



Denver, Colo. — W. D. Black, who re- 

 cently opened a flower shop at 1455 

 Broadway, has named the establish- 

 ment the Bargain Flower Store. He 

 reports that business has made an en- 

 couraging start and he has prospects 

 for a good fall trade. 





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