June 6, 1912. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



87 



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NEWS NOTES 



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Edgely, Pa. — The Floral Nurseries 

 Co., with authorized capital stock of 

 $5,000, has been incorporated. The 

 treasurer is Albert K. Arnold, of Wyn- 

 cote. 



Waco, Tex. — An assortment of 180 

 varieties of new plants and shrubs, the 

 gift of the horticultural department at 

 Washington, were recently placed in 

 Cameron park by Landscape Gardener 

 Shimins. 



Kingsville, Tex. — At the May meet- 

 ing of the Rio Grande Valley Horti- 

 cultural Society, held here, it was an- 

 nounced that $1,500 in prizes had been 

 offered for exhibits of fruit by mem- 

 bers of the organization. 



Newtonville, Mass. — Geo. W. Harris, 

 successor to H. A. Mansfield at 77 Wal- 

 nut street, is erecting a building for 

 bis own use as a store. It faces on 

 Walnut street and is about five min- 

 utes' walk from Newtonville square. 

 He is also adding two greenhouses. 



Waynesbiirg, Pa. — The Waynesburg 

 Floral Co., a newly organized firm, has 

 opened a store two doors west of the 

 Citizens' National Bank. The business 

 will be run under the supervision of 

 B. W. Spragg. J. James, formerly of 

 Pittsburgh, will have charge of the 

 decorations. 



Forest City, la. — C. B. Simons, man- 

 ager of the Hill City Greenhouses, 

 states that though the warm weather 

 was slow in arriving, the total business 

 for the spring season has proved to be 

 the best in his experience. Decoration 

 day trade was unusually heavy, espe- 

 cially in the plant department. 



Trenton, N. J. — The two new green- 

 houses of the Blackmon Floral Co., on 

 Center street, are nearly completed. 

 The houses are 28x100 and 28x75. The 

 store conducted by the firm on North 

 Broad street was also remodeled re- 

 cently, and the equipments for the 

 transaction of business are now first- 

 class in all departments. 



Waterloo, la. — J. W. Galloway and 

 Paul F. Scheibe have completed the 

 «rection of two modern greenhouses, 

 40x100, in Prospect Hills, between 

 Chariton road, Berkshire road and 

 Prospect boulevard, close to the pro- 

 posed site of the new street par waiting 

 station. Eeception rooms for visitors 

 and customers are a part of the con- 

 struction, and a beautiful driveway 

 leads from the buildings to the boule- 

 vard. The owners expect to open a 

 downtown store next fall and also to 

 build two more greenhouses. 



Hartford, Conn. — John R. Coombs, 

 who recently moved into his new store 

 at 752 Main street, has now got it com- 

 pletely equipped for business and it is 

 said to be one of the handsomest and 

 most up-to-date flower stores in the 

 state. The interior is finished through- 

 out in mahogany, and the wall cases 

 and other furnishings are of the same 

 material. A conspicuous object is the 

 fine new McCray refrigerator, which 

 was built especially for tlie space it 

 occupies and has a capacity of 2,000 

 pounds of ice. The office is located in 

 a mezzanine balcony overlooking the 

 store from the rear. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



DISEASED MUSEMELONS. 



Can you explain what was the mat- 

 ter with my muskmelons last yearf 

 They grew nicely until they were full 

 of fruit, just ripening; then they com- 

 menced to die off. First the leaves got 

 brown and then the whole stalk died, 

 leaving the melons to wither. I had 

 some cabbage and potatoes in the patch 

 adjoining, and they acted in the same 

 way. 



When planting the muskmelons, I 

 put a shovelful of old rotted manure 

 in each hill. The field was in tomatoes 

 the year before, which did well. The 

 spring of last year was extremely dry, 

 but the fall was wet. The cabbage 

 plants which I planted adjoining the 

 melons seemed to be affected with a 

 blight when I set them out. They grew 

 fairly well until about ready to head 

 up, when the lower leaves commenced 

 to drop off and finally the whole head 

 would rot. Then the melon stalks be- 

 came affected and were soon ruined. I 

 think that the cabbage caused the 

 trouble. J. K. 



I have been unable during the last 

 eight years to grow enough melons and 

 cukes for our own kitchen, except in 

 two seasons. My trouble has always 

 been caused by the striped bug. The 

 bugs do not cause the damage by what 

 they eat, but by carrying the deadly 

 bacterial wilt disease, which liills a 

 vine in a week if they chew just a 

 part of one leaf, thus infecting the 

 plant with the disease, which is carried 

 from other fields, sometimes all winter, 

 as the first plants they touch in the 

 spring are quickly affected. Cutting 

 off the leaf or even a branch will not 

 save the plant when once infected. 



The disease is a kind of growth 

 which stops up the sap tubes in the 

 stalk and the plant really dies for 

 want of water, although wet enough. 

 These same striped beetles also lay 

 eggs that hatch out into a tiny, wire- 

 like worm, which crawls to the stalk 

 when it comes out of the ground and 

 burrows into the stalk, injuring it so 

 the plants often wilt and die. If they 

 can not spoil a crop one way they seem 

 determined to find another way to de- 

 stroy it. I have tried all possible 

 remedies and finally given it up as use- 

 less. All market gardeners around here 

 have quit trying to grow melons, cukes 

 and squashes on that account, but last 

 year I put out a few and they did 

 well; I did not lose a plant; so I am 

 beginning to think perhaps we can 

 grow vines here again as we used to 

 do. 



I have a suspicion that you had one 

 of these troubles with your melons, but 

 cannot say positively that you did. I 

 do not think that any disease of the 

 cabbage would spread to the melons. 

 Cabbage, if not perfectly healthy when 

 set out, cannot be expected to do well. 

 They are often affected with fungous 

 disease, which rots the stalks just at 

 the surface of the soil when in the seed 

 flats, or when transplanted to the frame 

 before putting them in the field. Im- 

 proper care of them when young is the 

 cause, and what are apparently sound 

 and healthy plants when set out die 

 before making a head. Potatoes are 

 sometimes affected in the same way by 



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another disease, called black leg, which 

 is, however, under the ground. I am 

 sure that different diseases caused your 

 three poor crops, not the same disease 

 in all three. H. G. 



DOUBLE SALVIA. 



I came into possession of some double 

 scarlet sage seed through a friend of 

 mine and it seems the florists here know 

 nothing about it. Is it a good commer- 

 cial kind? Of what species is it and 

 would it be profitable to put it on the 

 market! I now have a few plants of the 

 double. R. S. 



I am not acquainted with the double 

 flowering sage. Salvia splendens, you 

 mention. I should be pleased to see a 

 sample flower of it. If it proves florif er-' 

 ous and is a good bedder, why not stock 

 up on it and offer it through The Review t 

 C. W. 



Newtonville, Mass. — George W. Har- 

 ris is erecting a greenhouse on Walnut 

 street. 



St. Joseph, Mo.— The Stuppy Floral 

 Co. secured the contract for beautify- 

 ing the grounds of the Lotus Club. 



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