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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 9, 1911. 



CATERPILLARS ON FERNS. 



We are sending you some ferns which 

 have been eaten by a green worm. We 

 have used all of the remedies of which 

 we have heard, but the pests still get 

 on the plants and they are ruining all 

 the new fronds. Can you tell me what 

 is the best thing to do? J. F. C. 



Hand-picking is the safest remedy for 

 these caterpillars on Boston ferns, and 

 the best time to do it is in the early 

 morning, for at that time the worms are 

 likely to be still feeding. The worms 

 could also be killed by thoroughly dust- 

 ing the plants with powdered hellebore 

 or with Slug Shot, but as these reme- 

 dies do not wash off readily, they' are 

 likely to spoil the appearance of the 

 plants to a greater or less extent. 



W. H. T. 



SPORES, NOT SCALES. 



I am sending you some maidenhair 

 fern. Can you tell me what to do for it? 

 Every leaf is covered with brown scales 

 and in time they all dry up. I have 

 tried warm soap suds with a little am- 

 monia water in it, but this does not 

 help. C. H. 



The brown scales referred to in this 

 query are not insects, but are the 

 sporangia, or spore cases, beneath 

 which the spores, or seeds, are formed; 

 the latter being found in the form of 

 brown dust when ripe. This is a nat- 

 ural growth on the fern leaf, and the 

 form and arrangement of these spore 

 cases on the leaves of ferns are marked 

 characteristics, by means of which the 

 botanist is enabled to classify the vari- 

 ous families of ferns. W. H. T. 



EVANSVILLE, IND. 



The Market. 



Business has improved considerably 

 of late and the florists have the happy 

 feeling that always comes after such 

 killing frosts as occurred last week. 

 During the greater part of the last ten 

 days the weather has been cloudy and 

 cold and the thermometers registered as 

 low as 24 degrees on twD mornings. 

 There have been several weddings and 

 receptions, and mums were used chiefly 

 for the decorations. All Saints' day 

 was celebrated here on Sunday, Novem- 

 ber 5, and an immense amount of mums, 

 roses and carnations were used in mak- 

 ing designs and sprays. Not much stock 

 had to be bought, as most of it is 

 grown here. 



Various Notes. 



Theo. D. Kuebler, of the Santa Eosa 

 Fruit Farm, has been bringing in some 

 good mums and carnations. The Black- 

 man Floral Co. takes all his carnations 

 and gets a large part of the mums. Mr. 

 Kuebler had a yellow sport of October 



frost this season; a plant with four 

 stems had one white flower, one fine 

 yellow flower and two that were not so 

 good. Mr, Kuebler has an automobile 

 delivery and his place is about nine 

 miles west of the city. 



Julius Niednagel & Sons were exceed- 

 ingly busy in preparation for All 

 Saints' day. Their business for this 

 day is always great. They are cutting 

 about 1,500 roses per day and have 

 sale for all of them. Their shipping 

 trade is increasing right along. 



The Blackman Floral Co. was espe- 

 cially busy on Saturday, November 4. 

 It is seldom that they are not busy. 

 They have large daily cuts of mums, 

 roses, carnations and green goods. The 

 smilax is extra fine, the strings being 

 long and heavy. The mums sell as fast 

 as they are brought to the store, $3 per 

 dozen being the best price so far. 



T. L. Metcalfe, of Hopkinsville, Ky., 

 has opened a store at 210 Upper Fifth 

 street, in this city. On Saturday, No- 

 vember 4, Mr. Metcalfe was here for the 

 opening. William Hewick has been en- 



irarVERY now and then a well- 

 IL9 pleased reader speaks the word 

 which is the means of brin^^ing a 

 new advertiser to 



ifVP^ 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver- 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of flotisf s use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 

 530-60 Cazton Bldg. Chicago 



gaged as manager and lives here. Mr. 

 Metcalfe has large establishments for 

 the growing of stock at Hopkinsville 

 and Madisonville, Ky., 6,000 feet of 

 glass at Clarksville, Tenn., and a store 

 and greenhouse at Jackson, Tenn. He 

 also operates three laundries. He was 

 a printer, by trade, but has given it 

 up for his other enterprises, only doing 

 his own printing. For his opening he 

 had a large stock of mums, roses and 

 carnations from his plants at Hopkins- 

 ville and Madisonville. For decorative 

 plants he had palms and ferns. The 

 store is only a few doors from Main 

 street. The first day 's business was 

 satisfactory. 

 J. C. Elsperman is cutting some fine 



mums and has lots of them still to come. 

 His trade for All Saints' day was im- 

 mense, but he had plenty of flowers this 

 year, while last year he was short of 

 stock. 



Louis Fritsch is putting up another 

 small house, doing the work himself, 

 with the help of his father. His carna- 

 tions are fine. 



Ben Kramer is using lots of mums, 

 roses and carnations. He gets most of 

 his stock from Otto Kuebler, of New- 

 burg, Ind. 



Karl Zeidler was extra busy in the 

 last week of October. He returned from 

 his fishing trip on the Wabash and says 

 that some fine bass were caught. 



Mrs. Henry Seymour is out of the hos- 

 pital and at home. She is improving 

 slowly. 



Eoyston & Fenton say that the mums 

 hurt the sale of roses. Their roses are 

 going off crop now and they look for 

 a good Christmas crop. 



Miss Nellie Goodge is improving in 

 health steadily. She has a nice cut ot 

 mums. 



Frank Johnson, of the A. L. Bandall 

 Co., Chicago, was here calling on the 

 trade November 6. E. L. F. 



OBITUARY. 



Norman J. Coleman. 



Norman J. Coleman, secretary of 

 agriculture in the cabinet of President 

 Cleveland, died November 3 in a sleeper 

 on a Wabash train bound for St. Louis. 

 He was 84 years of age. Mr. Coleman's 

 first business connection was when he 

 started a nursery in partnership with 

 C. C. Sanders, of St, Louis, the firm be- 

 ing Coleman & Sanders. In 1882 he was 

 president of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen. Perhaps his widest fame 

 was as editor of Coleman 's Rural World. 



Elijah Huftelen. 



Elijah Huftelen, known to many in 

 the trade as a grower of hardy lilies, 

 died at his home, near Le Roy, N. Y., 

 October 26, after a brief' illness, 

 brought on by the general infirmities 

 of age. He was born near Le Roy, 

 April 25, 1838. In his youth his educa- 

 tion was limited to the common school 

 branches, but later in life he entered 

 Starkey Seminary and became profi- 

 cient in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He 

 was successful as a public speaker and 

 as a writer for the press. He was well 

 known locally as an importer and ex- 

 porter of bulbs and plants and his lily 

 farm was one of the attractions of the 

 neighborhood. He is survived by two 

 sisters, Mrs. Louisa Fisk, of Morgan- 

 ville, and Mrs. Ellen Bushman, of Staf- 

 ford, and by one brother, Adelbert 

 Huftelen, of Le Roy. He has been suc- 

 ceeded in business as a grower by Geo. 

 C. Richmond. 



John J. Murphy. 



John J. Murphy died at his home at 

 New Castle, Ind., October 28. He was 

 formerly employed by Julius Niednagel, 

 of Evansville, Ind., but at the time of 

 death was with the South Park Floral 

 Co., New Castle. 



Springfield, Mass.— L. D. Robinson, 

 Jr., claims to be the largest grower of 

 bulbous stock in the city, most of which 

 is disposed of over the counter. J. W. 

 Adams & Co. report an excellent fall 

 season for nursery stock, and have some 

 big orders ahead. 



