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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



April 25, 1912. 



STIGMONOSE ON ENCHANTBESS. 



I am enclosing under separate cover 

 some samples of Enchantress carna- 

 tions that are affected with a disease 

 with which I am not familiar. The 

 leaves begin drying at the tips and the 

 trouble seems to be general throughout 

 the varieties of Enchantress. I have 

 some fly in my carnation houses, due 

 to the fact that I cannot fumigate with 

 gas on account of the night man. Could 

 this be the reason for the trouble? I 

 shall be grateful for any help. 



W. T. M. 



Your plants are suffering from stig- 

 monose, which is causing those yellow 

 spots and 4he yellow tips on the leaves. 

 If you cannot fumigate, try spraying 

 with one of the nicotine preparations. 

 Go after them strongly now, or you 

 will have a hard time with them after 

 warm weather sets in. A. F. J. B. 



EIGHT TIME TO WATER. 



Which is considered the better time 

 to water carnations, in the morning 

 or evening, from now till June? Will 

 the plants need spraying in the middle 

 of the day? J. A. & S. 



There is no question that the proper 

 time to water almost any plant, and the 

 carnation in particular, is in the fore- 

 noon. This does not necessarily mean, 

 however, that watering should not be 

 done in the afternoon under certain 

 conditions or at certain times of the 

 year. The idea to keep in mind, when 

 arranging your watering schedule, is to 

 allow no undue drying out at the roots 

 at any time, and to prevent that it be- 

 comes necessary at times to water in 

 spots in the latter part of the day. This 

 usually happens on windy days. It is 

 also expedient to have the foliage dry 

 by night, if possible. Wet foliage dur- 

 ing the night is not a good thing for 

 most plants, and specially for carna- 

 tions. It is apt to bring on diseases, 

 such as leaf -spot, fairy ring, etc. 



Spraying during the middle of the 

 day to prevent wilting should be re- 

 sorted to only in extreme cases. You 

 will find that usually a good damping 

 down of the walks will answer the pur- 

 pose of moistening the atmosphere, 

 which is all that is needed. One of 

 the most severe cases of fairy ring I 

 have ever come across was brought on 

 by frequent spraying of the plants dur- 

 ing the heat of the day. These were 

 young plants, benched from pots, and 

 under this treatment they grew rapidly 

 until the disease started. To have al- 



lowed the plants to flag a little for a 

 few days would have hardened the 

 growth enough to withstand the hot 

 sun, and while the growth would have 

 been less rapid, it would have been 

 harder and less liable to disease. 



You will find that a good mulch of 

 loose material, about an inch thick, will 

 do your plants a world of good in the 

 way of preventing the soil from drying 

 out. With such a mulch on, one water- 

 ing each day should be enough, and let 

 that be given before noon if possible. 

 A. R J. B. 



FAIRY RING. 



Please tell me the name of the dis- 

 ease on the enclosed carnation leaves. 



W. B. 



The spots you notice on the leaves of 

 your carnations are fairy ring. Pick off 

 all you can and then spray the plants 

 thoroughly with Bordeaux mixture. The 

 weather ought to be in your favor 

 now and you should have no trouble 

 in ridding your plants of this disease. 

 Dispense with syringing altogether for 

 a while, unless you see red spider on 

 the plants. A. F. J. B. 



YELLOW TIPS ON ENCHANTRESS. 



I am sending you, under separate 

 cover, some carnation growths which 

 have brown tips and look as if they 

 had been burnt. Last season thrips got 

 the upper hand on my place, but this 

 season I sprayed with To-bak-ine every 

 two weeks and have kept the plants 

 clean, to the best of my knowledge. 

 The growths which I am sending you 

 are among the worst. The variety is 

 Enchantress. A. C. U. 



The yellow tips you complain of are 

 frequently seen on the Enchantress 

 varieties at this time of the year. I 

 am not quite positive, but think they 

 are caused by thrips. They get into 

 the young growth and feed the same 

 as they do in the buds. Your spraying 

 has undoubtedly kept them down 

 among the lower growth and, while 

 they do enough damage there, it is not 

 so bad as to have them feeding on the 

 blooms. It is rather late now to expect 

 to do anything which may improve the 

 cut before the end of the season. The 

 damage is done while the young shoots 

 are quite small and does not become 

 apparent until they grow out some time 

 later. 



You will, of course, want to rid your 

 place of the pest and perhaps the means 

 to accomplish this would be to use 



hydrocyanic acid gas. One or two appli- 

 cations should clear them out. 



A. F. J. B. 



WANTED— THE BEST RED. 



Which is the best all-round red car- 

 nation? I have seen it stated that 

 Beacon is a bad splitter. I want one 

 that does not split so much. W. B. 



Beacon and Victory have for several 

 years been considered the two stand- 

 ard scarlet carnations. Each has its 

 merits and its faults, but each is strong 

 where the other is weak and growers 

 have found it advantageous to grow 

 both. Last year Bonfire was dissem- 

 inated and it has found favor with 

 many growers. Its principal fault is in 

 its lack of size. Scarlet Glow would 

 be a winner in the commercial class, 

 except for a weak stem early in the 

 season. If your soil is heavy it may 

 prove satisfactory. St. Nicholas is a 

 new-comer and will yet have to prove 

 its worth away from its native heath. 



A. F. J. B. 



CUTTINGS NOT MADE RIGHT. 



Enclosed are two cuttings of White 

 Wonder. Kindly note the slit in the 

 stem and the brown fungus. This is the 

 way they came from the cutting bench, 

 most of them being lightly rooted. 

 After they were potted five days, they 

 withered up and died. I have 1,000 that 

 are more or less affected. Kindly let 

 me know what the trouble is. 



J. C. N. 



Your cuttings are not made right and 

 that is most likely the reason they are 

 acting the way they are. When trim- 

 ming the cutting, cut just at a joint 

 and then take off all of the lower pair 

 of leaves clear to the stem. Do not 

 leave the stub of a leaf on the stem, 

 as it will rot and cause you just the 

 kind of trouble you are complaining of. 

 There is also some leaf-spot on them, 

 which is prcfbably caused by too much 

 spraying overhead. Cuttings like these 

 will not make first-class stock, even if 

 you succeed in getting them to grow. 



A. F. J. B. 



Canton, HI. — The greenhouses estab- 

 lished over thirty years ago by Bal- 

 thasar Jacobs are now the property of 

 Geo. W. Jacobs, the eldest of the five- 

 sons. Mrs. B. Jacobs, who has man- 

 aged the business as administratrix for 

 the last fourteen years, will enjoy a 

 well-earned rest. 



