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OCTonEK 19, 1911. 



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A. Gilchrist and hit Gladiolus Display at the Recrnt Toronto Exhibition. 



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have now advanced to the time of year 

 when this would have no bearing on 

 the case. C. H. T. 



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MILDEW ON MUMS. '-' '' 

 Will you kindly inform me what' 

 causes mildew on mum plants, and the 

 remedy for it? H. J. H. 



Mildew is often caused by a cold 

 draft striking the plants when the fo- 

 liage is wet. It is also caused by lack 

 of air and it will often be noticed that 

 mildew comes on the center of the 

 bench, where the air cannot possibly 

 circulate, owing to the crowded con- 

 dition of the leaves. 



One remedy for mildew is to run a 

 little sulphur along the steam pipes and 

 the fumes from the sulphur, when the 

 pipes are turned on at night, will kill 

 the spores. 



If H. J. H. has no heat on his houses, 

 he can spray the plants with Fungine 

 in the proportion as recommended by 

 the introducers. This preparation is 

 an extract of liver of sulphur or 

 sulphur of potassium, the difference 

 being that where the liver of sulphur 

 leaves quite considerable marks on the 

 foliage, the other preparation leaves 

 none at all and is consequently more 

 desirable. C. H. T. 



WORMS ON MUMS. 

 Will you please tell me what to 

 use on my mums? Two different kinds 

 of worms, one green, the other green 

 and black striped, are eating the leaves 

 and buds. We have used nicotine, 

 Aphine and arsenate of lead and have 

 smoked the house about every second 

 or third night. Please state what will 

 kill the worms and not injure the 

 plants. F. W. F. 



I am at a loss to understand why the 

 arsenate of lead was not effective in 

 the case of worms. It is readily under- 

 stood that nicotine or Aphine are not 

 of much use unless the worms are 

 sprayed directly with the preparation, 

 which is a diflBcult thing to do, but the 

 arsenate of lead, which is a poison, if 

 applied in su£5cient strength, should 

 certainly hatve cleaned out the worms. 



I would suggest that the best rem- 

 edy of all is Paris green, but this must 

 be used carefully; just enough to color 

 the water is plenty. A small teaspoon- 

 ful in four gallons of water is plenty 



strong enough of most brands. This can 

 be used in a good sprayer and the un- 

 der side of tbejeaves sprayed as well 

 as the top side, and thoroughly covered. 

 Paris green varies so much that what 

 is enough of one brand would be too 

 much of another. The best way would 

 be for F. W. F. to test the strength be- 

 fore using it extensively; then he will 

 not be bothered with burning of the 

 foliage. C. H. T. 



CANADIAN GLADIOLI. 



When the big annual national exhibi- 

 tion was held at Toronto this year A. 

 Gilelirist, of that city, was awarded 

 a gold medal for the display of gladioli 

 shown in the accompanying illustration, 

 which was said to be the largest and fin- 

 est collection of the flower ever staged 

 in Canada. Mr. Gilchrist, who also is seen 

 in the picture, is planning to show his 

 stock at Chicago next August, when the 

 American Gladiolus Society holds its 

 exhibition in conjunction with the con- 

 vention of the S. A. F., but he says he 

 does not hopfe to capture any sweep- 

 stakes in such fast company as will be 

 found at that time. 



A feature of the Toronto exhibition 

 was the showing of Gladiolus Panama, 

 sent by Frank Banning, Kinsman, O. 

 Mr. Gilchrist says the box of flowers 

 was four days on the road, including 

 the delay in the custom-house, but 

 that the blooms arrived in fine condi- 

 tion and stood a week in the exhibition. 

 The judges recommended that a cer- 

 tificate of merit be awarded Mr. Ban- 

 ning- 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



If Billy Sunday were in Washington 

 now it might be suspected that a re- 

 vival had swept the ranks of the flo- 

 rists, but the suspicion would hardly 

 be warranted, although they are as 

 godly a set of men as one will find in 

 any line of business. The fact is that 

 the supplications arising from them are 

 for a frost to kill off the outdoor stock 

 and make a decent market for the 

 finer stock, which is at present almost 

 going a-begging for buyers. 



Business is really dull, with a bright 

 spot here and there to save it from the 

 utter anathema of the trade. The first 

 frost will give it a good boost. Mean- 



time an occasional wedding helps to 

 create a demand for stock, and this 

 week there are several funerals, nota^' 

 bly that of Justice Harlan, who was 

 mu6h beloved and who has many sin- 

 cere mourners. There are two funerals 

 of firemen, also, who died in the dis- 

 charge of their duty, and the death of 

 a prominent man in Kichmond made a 

 call on Washington florists. Things are 

 decidedly better, on the whole, than 

 they were, but there is room for a lot 

 of improvement yet. 



Various Notes. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. had a 

 man through the south last week and 

 he brought back optimistic reports of 

 the condition of trade in that region. 



The Washington Florists' Exchange 

 is doing an excellent business and the 

 manager, Albert Schnell, says it keeps 

 him busy filling orders. 



The Washington Florists' Club is 

 meeting in the greenhouse back of the 

 F street store of Gude Bros. Co., but 

 there is more or less agitation all the 

 time over securing a permanent hall to 

 meet in. As there is seldom a score of 

 members in attendance and it takes 

 something extraordinary to bring them 

 out, it may be that the club will delay 

 leasing a meeting place — at least as 

 long as Gude Bros. Co. is such an ac- 

 commodating landlord. Plans are being 

 made already for the annual election 

 and dinner. Of late years this has in- 

 cluded the ladies, and it has grown to 

 be a pleasant social event. 



The Washington Florists Co. opened 

 its uptown branch at B and Fourteenth 

 streets, northwest, October 16. There 

 was an excellent display of stock from 

 the concern 's own greenhouses. 



Z. D. Blackistone is an enthusiastic 

 baseball fan and he is taking in the 

 world's series. October 16 he went to 

 Philadelphia to see the game and while 

 there bought some supplies for his store, 

 the reconstruction work on which is. 

 proceeding rapidly. 



Sidney Holland has reopened his store, 

 at Eighteenth and Columbia road. He 

 closed his place during the summer. 



George Cook is not down and out, as 

 was reported recently. He suffered 

 blood poisoning in his hand, it is true, 

 as a result of a thorn prick, but he ia 

 attending to his business just as if 

 nothing had happened. 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Gude celebrated 



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