NOVBMBBB 24, 1010. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



IS 



The Bowling Contingent of the Omaha Florists' Club, 



White — Mrs. David Syme, W. M, Moir, 

 Mrs. Norman Davis. Crimson — Pock- 

 «tt'8 Crimson, Leslie Morrison and 

 Pockett 's Surprise. Pink — Miriam 

 Hankey. Yellow — F. S. Vallis and Mrs. 

 J. C. Neill. Bronze — Eose Pockett and 

 Mrs. O. H. Kahn. Mrs. H. Stevens and 

 C. H. Totty, salmon and chestnut scar- 

 let, respectively. 



These can all be bought now at a 

 reasonable figure, as they have passed 

 the novelty class. Chas. H. Totty. 



BUDS EOT AND WITHER. 



Under separate cover, I am sending 

 some plants of Golden Eagle. Will you 

 kindly tell me the cause of the buds 

 rotting and not growing after forming? 

 This is the only variety that I have 

 any trouble with. The plants have 

 grown well and, as far as I can see, are 

 quite healthy. The terminal bud was 

 taken. The buds, after forming, seem 

 to rot and wither up. I tried some 

 without disbudding, but then all of the 

 buds rotted. The plants have some 

 thrips on them, but only a little. There 

 are Bonnaflfons on one side of them 

 and Golden Chadwicks on the other, 

 and both of these varieties are in good 

 shape. 



In another house I have a few Golden 

 Eagle that were started later and they 

 are acting the same way. I shall lose 

 seventy-five per cent of both lots. If 

 possible, I should like to know the 

 cause of the trouble and a cure for it. 

 I am located in southern Massachusetts. 



E. L. J. 



E. L, J. seems to be up against a 

 proposition that is difficult to solve. 

 Had any other varieties gone in the 

 same house, I would have said it was a 

 question of culture, but where Bon- 

 naffon and Chadwick come good there 

 should be no reason why Golden Eagle 

 should not come good also. It would 

 seem to me that the only thing for 

 E. L. J. to do is to get along without 

 Golden Eagle and stick to some varietur 

 that he knows will do well with his soil 

 and conditions. 



Personally, Golden Eagle never 

 amounted to anything with our cultural 

 treatment, but that does not alter the 

 fact that it grows finely through the 



middle west and seems to be a valuable 

 variety in that section. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



A TEXAS FAIB BOOTH. 



Corsicana is the county seat of Na- 

 varro county, Texas. Navarro is only 

 an average of the 206 counties in the 

 state and is itself about as big as the 

 state of Ehode Island, so that there 

 still is plenty of room in spite of the 

 rapidity with which that section has 

 been filling up the last few years. In 

 that part of the country the county 

 fairs are held a month or so later in 

 the season than they are in the north 

 and east, but the florists cannot at that 

 time do much in the way of showing 

 cut flowers; they make their displays 

 with plants. The accompanying illus- 

 tration shows the county fair booth of 

 the Corsicana Greenhouses, run by Mr. 

 & Mrs. Clowe, which, by the way, is 



unique as a firm name in this trade. 

 There were in the display twenty-five 

 varieties of ferns, including practically 

 every one of the Boston sports and 

 sports from Boston sports, that ever 

 has been put on the market. Every 

 plant was propagated by the exhibitors. 



THE OMAHA BOWLEBS. 



Those Omaha florists are a husky 

 bunch, believe us, but if you are from 

 the neighboring state of Missouri 

 (where they are said to be tiring of 

 the changes rung on this joke) you can 

 have the evidence of your own eyes; 

 all you need do is look at the picture. 

 These are the Omaha bowlers. They 

 haven't broken training since the only 

 time the S. A. F. met west of the Missis- 

 sippi, which was twelve years ago, and 

 are looking forward to the time when 

 the florists' national tournament will 

 again be pulled off in their territory. 



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SEASONABLE 



SUGGESTIONS 



Poinsettia£. 



Now that the bracts on poinsettias 

 are developing, the plants are benefited 

 by a higher temperature; 60 degrees 

 at night is about right. Of course they 

 will do 5 degrees lower and higher, but 

 60 degrees is a good safe figure. This 

 is the time that judicious feeding is 

 most effectual. Always avoid heavy 

 doses. It will cause the foliage to 

 yellow just as much as will careless 

 watering. Weak doses applied twice a 

 week are much to be preferred to 

 stronger applications at wider inter- 

 vals. Weak nitrate of soda water or 

 Bon Arbor, a teaspoonful of each to a 

 12-quart can of water, are good foods 

 to green up the foliage. Do not allow 

 any stems to become bent. Use short 

 stakes to straighten any which do not 



stand erect. Avoid fumigating with 

 tobacco stems, or you will lose a lot of 

 foliage. Poinsettias are much dam- 

 aged by heavy smoking. 



Gardenias. 



We are arriving at a critical time 

 of the year with gardenias, more espe- 

 cially those intended for midwinter 

 flowering, and, of course, a large pro- 

 portion of growers like to get a good 

 number of flowers in the cold months, 

 while prices are high. Cold weather 

 necessitates more fire heat. Those who 

 can give their benches a little bottom 

 heat now have an advantage. The 

 roots of gardenias love to be warm. 

 The soil dries out better and the per- 

 centage of dropped buds have always 

 been found materially less than on 



