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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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/When that enthusiasm awakens, there 

 will be golden harvests for the nursery- 

 men and hardy plant salesmen who are 

 in the field and prepared for the de- 

 mand. 



Our trade in hardy herbaceous plants 

 has developed marvelously during the 

 last twelve years, probably quadrupled. 

 Our people are keenly interested; home 

 gardening is fashionable with the 

 wealthy and popular with the poor. 

 Some day these conditions will "catch 

 •on" in America. When William E. 

 Smith, of Washington, was over here a 

 year or two ago, he said the greatest 

 •change he noticed from his previous 

 visit was "the great variety of plants 

 in the well kept gardens of the 

 artisans. ' ' 



American City Parks. 



I was deeply interested in the large 

 public parks in all the cities I visited, 

 but, unfortunately, I was too early to 

 flee them in their verdant robes. You 

 have more very large parks than we 

 -can boast of and, generally speaking, 

 their extent gives them a grandeur all 

 their own; the judicious planting of 

 trees and shrubs completes the picture. 

 I fancy our parks show a livelier dis- 

 play of flowers in spring and summer, 

 as we make more ample provision in 

 that direction in the shape of flower 

 beds and borders. 



Chicago's system of small public 

 parks cannot be too highly commended 

 ■or too freely imitated. They are grand 

 assets to the well-being and health of 

 the community. 



Fairmount park, Philadelphia, is mag- 

 nificent. I wish I could see and enjoy 

 it in summer. Philadelphia may justly 

 be proud of the natural beauties and 

 «xtent of its pleasure ground. As I 

 was transported from one end to the 

 other in an automobile — a 10-mile 

 drive — the idea flashed through my 

 mind that it was more than "a Sab- 

 bath day's journey" for many Phila- 

 •delphians to reach it. What a pity 

 nature did not distribute it around the 

 city! 



Washington impressed itself upon me 

 as a "garden city." That impression 

 will always remain. Embosomed in 

 treies, it approaches the ideal that many 

 ■of UB are striving for over here in the 

 planning of cities and towns. Progress 

 in that direction is slow; perhaps it is 

 flure. 



The Boston Show. 



Boston show was a great show. On 

 its management I have no adverse crit- 

 icisms to advance and none reached 

 my ears. On the contrary, I admired 

 the order and good management that 

 prevailed, reflecting the highest possible 

 credit on all concerned in its organiza- 

 tion. I admit it was a great show, but 

 come over to London any year in May 

 and you will see a greater. The Temple 

 show covers a smaller area than did 

 the Boston show, but it provides more 

 variety, the cream of European products 

 in horticulture. True, the third week 

 in May is a more favorable date. 



The exhibits from Roland, Walsh and 

 Farquhar stood out preeminent. The 

 aweet peas from William Sim were most 

 remarkable and J was indeed glad to 

 be thus early an eye-witness of 

 Zvolanek's latest introductions, des- 

 tined to make their mark in the world 

 of sweet peas. The pink antirrhinums 

 again caught my eye and admiration. 

 The cut roses, taking them all around, 

 were superb. The carnations I have 



already expressed an opinion upon; the 

 huge masses of blooms were most credit- 

 able to the growers, but I certainly 

 would have appreciated more elegance 

 in the arrangement. Nephrolepis from 

 the F. R. Pierson Co. were extremely 

 interesting on account of the variations. 



Some General Conclusions. 



Taking the show all in all, it was a 

 gjrand testimonial to the enterprise of 

 American horticulturists and "Merit" 



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The Goldsboro Bride's Bouquet. 



gard to his six weeks' trip to the 

 United States.] 



was written in large letters on the ex- 

 hibits all the way around. 



When I try to compare floriculture 

 in America with floriculture in Eng- 

 land, I am led to the conclusion that 

 the differences are not very great. The 

 scale of operations may vary and meth- 

 ods may differ, but the results arrived 

 at are practically alike. There exist 

 wider differences in the fashions in 

 flowers and the flower shows of London 

 and Paris than are apparent between 

 those of London and Boston, and Paris 

 is only eight hours from the British 

 capital. May floriculture continue to 

 flourish in America and in all countries, 

 is the earnest wish of 



J. S. Bruntom. 



["Impressions" have become quite 

 the fad; the British visitors following 

 Mr. Brunton's lead are busy writing 

 their recollections for the English trade 

 press, from which they~ are being ex- 

 tensively copied, and The Review also 

 has received from W. E. Wallace, Dun- 

 ' stable, an appreciative letter with re- 



THE CONTEOL OF INSECT PESTS. 



[An extract from a talk by M. C. Ebel, before 

 the New York Florists' Club May 8.] 



Experience has taught me that en- 

 tirely too little thought and considera- 

 tion are given by the growers to that 

 important feature of the business, the 

 control of insect pests, and the neglect 

 of this at times causes them serious loss, 

 which might easily be overcome by a 

 little more attention to the preventing 

 of insects getting a foothold on their 

 plants. In every other branch the pro- 

 gressive growers are alive to the new 

 conditions and methods employed and 

 keep themselves in tune with the times, 

 but when it comes to controlling insects 

 it appears that too many of them find 

 that their grandfather's ways are still 

 good enough for them. But plants are 

 much like the human being who is not 

 content to bear only what his fore- 

 fathers suffered; they are continually 

 afllicted by new diseases and insects 

 and it is essential that the florist or 

 gardener who is ambitious to rank with 

 the successful of his profession should 

 study this important phase of plant cul- 

 ture as he does the temperature, fertil- 

 izer, etc. 



Some growers prefer fumigating or 

 vaporizing, and others spraying, as a 

 means of insect control. From the re- 

 sults that are being obtained there is 

 little doubt that both remedies are ef- 

 fective when properly applied, but im- 

 proper applications, no matter how good 

 the material employed may be, must 

 result in failure, and carelessness often- 

 times is the chief contributor when bad 

 results are obtained. Both the methods 

 referred to have their special merits, 

 fumigation being generally regarded as 

 the more economical from the labor- 

 saving standpoint. But on many of the 

 large places spraying is being resorted 

 to more and more, for it is found to be 

 the less harmful to plants, and with 

 proper system the labor of an establish- 

 ment can be engaged in the work 

 without additional cost above that of 

 fumigating; in other words, when every- 

 thing is done in its time and place 

 spraying can be made one of the rou- 

 tines of the regular work in a house. 

 Fumigating requires the filling of a 

 house, while spraying is necessary only 

 in that part of the house where the 

 pests have taken a hold, when cures are 

 sought. Still, every grower should bear 

 in mind that ' ' an ounce of prevention is 

 worth a pound of cure," and nowhere 

 can this old adage be more truly ap- 

 plied than in the control of insect pests. 

 Our most successful growers no longer 

 wait for the insects to put in an appear- 

 ance, but fumigate or spray regularly to 

 keep the pests down, as they realize 

 that clean plants make healthy growth. 

 Too much care cannot be exercised in 

 the use of insecticides to obtain proper 

 results. Many men are satisfled to make 

 a guess at the proportions required and 

 will not take the trouble of careful 

 measuring, and then when failure or, 

 worse, injury results, the remedies are 

 immediately blamed and the careless 

 management of those entrusted with 

 the work of applying them seems sel- 

 dom to be considered. Fumigation and 

 spraying are regarded by too many as 

 only boys' work, although no eareful 

 grower would set an apprentice at work 



to attend to the fertilizing of his 



houses and it certainly does not seem 



