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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 21, 1912. 



should do with the plants. I have been 

 thinking of taking them up, packing 

 them in boxes and storing them in a 

 light cellar until time to plant them 

 out and use them for cuttings this fall. 



G. L, E. 



You could lift the stock plants, plant 

 them in boxes and store them in a cool 

 greenhouse or light cellar; or, better 

 still, you could pot them singly. The 

 latter plan would be much the better, 

 as by using pots of moderate size and 

 keeping the plants a few weeks in a 

 greenhouse they would become nicely 

 established and could then be moved 

 to a coldframe to be gradually hardened 

 off. If you do not care to go to the 

 trouble of potting each off, you can 

 adopt the boxing plan, but if you can 

 spare a place for them in a cool house 

 for a short time it would be a decided 

 advantage. C. W. 



DISEASED FOLIAQE. 



Kindly tell me what the white dis- 

 ease is on the edge of the enclosed 

 leaves. Please state also the cause and 

 remedy. A. E. B. 



The geranium leaf was attacked by 

 a fungoid growth not uncommon at this 

 season. Keep water off the foliage as 

 much as you can, pick off affected 

 leaves, keep the plants well spaced and 

 run them a little drier at the root. A 

 dry and airy atmosphere, with plenty of 

 sun, is what the plants need. On the 

 cyclamen and other leaves I could not 

 detect any disease, but I noticed quite 

 a few white flies on them. You should 

 try to exterminate this pest, or it will 

 speedily ruin much of your stock. Hy- 

 drocyanic acid gas, used as often rec- 

 ommended in The Review, is the only 

 sure remedy for it. Choose a cool night 

 for the operation, and, as this is a dead- 

 ly gas, use the greatest caution when 

 applying it. C. W. 



GERANIUM LEAVES TUEN EED. 



I should like to know what causes 

 geranium leaves to turn red, like the 

 enclosed sample. " "^ 



F. D. 



The most likely causes for the foliage' 

 turning red on geraniums are an inade- 

 quate water supply and lack of food in 

 the soil. Some varieties, however, seem 

 naturally to put on these autumnal 

 foliage tints in winter and it is not 

 always caused by either too little water 

 or lack of feeding. C. W. 



DAISIES FOR THE GREENHOUSE. 



• Is there any kind of daisy that can 

 be grown in the greenhouse? 



C. G. P. 



The word daisy, as a popular name, 

 is applied more or less to quite a num- 

 ber of plants. The white and yellow 

 marguerites are often called daisies 

 and have the greatest commercial value 

 of any of their class of flowers. Arti- 

 cles dealing on their culture appear 

 from time to time in the columns of 

 The Review. There are now both sin- 

 gle and double forms of marguerites. 

 The little double daisies which flower 

 in spring, and are used in cemeteries 

 and for spring bedding, can be grown 

 in a cold greenhouse with pansies and 

 violets. They are usually carried over, 

 however, in coldframes. The Barber- 

 ton daisy or gerbera and the newer 



dimorphothecas, also called South Af- 

 rican daisies, are other representatives 

 which are grown commercially in a 

 moderate way; also various forms of 

 Chrysanthemum maximum, commonly 

 known as the Shasta daisy. The mar- 

 guerites, however, are by far the most 

 important from a florist's point of 

 view. C. W. 



ANNUAL LUPINES FOR FORCING. 



Can you give us information regard- 

 ing the culture of lupines, stating how 

 they are propagated and grown, the 

 right temperatures and the varieties 

 best suited for forcing? 



L. C. S. & S. 



Annual lupines are becoming more 

 popular each year for forcing purposes. 

 Of course, there is not the same de- 

 mand for them as for roses, carnations 

 and some other staples, but they are 

 popular with critical flower buyers. 

 Their culture is not at all difficult. 

 They succeed well with snapdragons 

 and annual larkspurs. A night tem- 

 perature of 45 to 48 degrees is better 

 than 50 to 52 degrees in winter, and 

 during the darkest months I find they 

 do particularly well on raised benches. 



The early forcing varieties, such as 

 Pink Beauty, Snowdrop and others, are 

 easily flowered for Christmas. Seed 

 should be sown in pots outdoors about 

 August 10 and they should be trans- 

 planted into the benches a . month or 

 five weeks later. Succession batches 

 can be started in pots or may be sown 

 thinly in rows eighteen inches apart in 



the benches. L. mutabilis, pink and 

 white, are not good midwinter bloomers, 

 but after the end of February are fine. 

 These require considerably more space 

 than the more slender growing, early 

 forcing sorts. After the main stem 

 has been cut the plants break strongly 

 and will furnish quite a number more 

 flowering shoots. These do best in a 

 night temperature of 45 degrees, al- 

 though some growers get good success 

 in a carnation temperature. The annual 

 lupines are always propagated from 

 seeds. C. W. 



OBITUARY. 



Michael Lawlor. 



Michael Lawlor, one of the oldest 

 residents of Flushing, N. Y., died March 

 13, after a lingering illness from liver 

 trouble. He was born in Ireland sixty- 

 three years ago, and after coming to 

 this country made Flushing his resi- 

 dence. He had lived there for half a 

 century and had been engaged in the 

 florists' business up to ten years ago. 

 Mr. Lawlor is survived by three sons, 

 Gustav, Frank and Frederick, and two 

 daughters, Miss Agnes Lawlor and Mrs. 

 Penning. 



Binghamton, N. Y. — C. H. Wilbur, 

 who purchased the Oak street green- 

 houses recently, has erected a store and 

 workroom. It is unique in design and 

 adds greatly to the attractiveness of 

 the old stand. He says increasing busi- 

 ness is the result. 



