Septb»ber 28, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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the introduction of the paper bouquet 

 holder, which was hardly nice enough. 

 To fill this want Mr. Eice has had 

 the embossed paper bouquet holder 

 made. It combines much of the beauty 

 of the lace and satin bouquet holder 

 with a better grade of material than 

 the one made of paper. 



While in Holland Mr. Eice secured 

 some pretty Delftware vases, blue and 

 white china in quaint design, the 

 smaller sizes pleasing for favors. 



Bed maidenhair, velour finish, is an 

 addition to the scarlet material avail- 

 able for Christmas work. Fhil. 



SOW BUGS OR WOOD LICE. 



Will some reader of The Eeview give 

 me a remedy for sow bugs or wood lice? 

 I have used all the usual remedies, 

 which seem to be of little avail. 



L. G. B. 



Eye flour is a delicacy much relished 

 by sow bugs, sometimes called wood 

 lice, according to Frank Felke, Wil- 

 mette. 111. If it has been sweetened to 

 their taste, they will gorge themselves 

 with it and will roll up and die of the 

 poison also included. He uses two parts 

 rye flour, two parts sugar and one part 

 Paris green, mixing only so much as is 

 to be used at one time, as it deterior- 

 ates if it stands any length of time. 

 The mixture is scattered along the top 

 of the edge-board of the bench in the 

 evening, being careful to see that the 

 board is dry, else the mixture will be- 

 come lumpy and unpalatable to even 

 the most voracious of the sow bugs. 

 "Try it," says Mr. Felke, "and you 

 will be surprised to find how many it 

 will kill; you wouldn't have believed 

 there were that many on your place." 



A WOMAN GLADIOLUS GROWER. 



One day last week a few growers of 

 the gladiolus met at the home of Mr. 

 and Mrs. A. H. Austin, of Wayland, O., 

 to see the gladioli and the grower, Mrs. 

 Austin. A brief account of what we 

 saw will be of interest as showing what 

 a woman can accomplish when her 

 heart is in the work. 



The farm, which has been in the 

 Austin family about 100 years, is on 

 high ground, sloping to the southeast. 

 The soil is a clayey loam, but the fre- 

 quent cultivation it receives makes it 

 look much lighter than it is. In fact, 

 it has the appearance of having been 

 passed through a sieve. 



Some years ago, when Mrs. Austin 

 came onto the farm — and she is yet a 

 young woman — she commenced with a 

 few bulbs, and seeing the possibilities 

 of this flower, she continued to increase 

 her stock, raise new seedlings, test the 

 best obtainable and weed out and de- 

 stroy the undesirable. In the mean- 

 time the farm was successfully managed 

 by Mr. Austin, but the time soon came 

 when the few acres of gladioli became 

 important as a moneymaker, besides 

 being one of the attractions of that part 

 of Portage county. Many of the lead- 

 ing growers and seedsmen of the coun- 

 try have been purchasers of bulbs 

 grown there. Last year she had orders 

 for almost 100,000 of a single variety 

 after the stock was exhausted. She 

 has now growing about a million bulbs, 

 including all sizes of America. All 

 the varieties on the farm seem to be 

 in perfect health, although there is a 

 general complaint this season that gla- 

 dioli are not their best, on account 

 of the drought and extreme heat. 



Mrs. A. H. Austin. 



Mrs. Austin's bulbs are all gro.wn 

 in rows three feet apart, and about 

 fifty rods in length. Grown in this 

 way an acre will make less than three 

 miles of a row, so that the time re- 

 quired to cultivate that area is not 

 long. A well stirred surface is con- 

 ducive to a steady and healthy growth. 



Besides growing a large area, Mrs. 

 Austin keeps up with the times by 

 testing most of the new introductions 

 offered in America and Europe, besides 

 raising choice seedlings from hand- 

 fertilized seed. Nowhere else have I 

 ever seen such fine seedlings. We 

 looked at them in the forenoon, then 

 talked of them after dinner, and went 

 again later in the day to take a last 

 look. We saw yellows as deep as the 

 daffodil, others pure white and no end 

 of fine colored varieties. I didn 't dare 

 to ask what they were worth, but great 

 prices have been paid for some not half 

 as good. I saw some fine ones at Balti- 

 more, but they were nowhere beside 

 Mrs. Austin's. M. Crawford. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



["Ganlon Planning," by W. S. Rogers. Poublc- 

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"Garden Planning," by W. S. Eogers, 

 is one of the latest additions to the ex- 

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 which have been favorably noticed in 

 The Eeview. The present book is bound 

 in the same tasteful style as the others 

 and its contents are of the same use- 



ful character. It was written by a 

 gardener in England and was carefully 

 revised by the American publishers, so 

 as to adapt it to American conditions. 

 The illustrations were made from the 

 author's own drawings and really il- 

 lustrate the text. 



Though the book is not a cumbrously 

 large one, it is comprehensive enough 

 so that it treats the subject from both 

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 of the book, while the concrete exam- 

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 the mere planning or outlining of gar- 

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 is supplied, with reference, for instance, 

 to the nature of the soil and its treat- 

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 of lawns, the selection of plants and 

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 the paths and their construction, the 

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 I The book is comprehensive enough, 

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