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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw42amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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COMET WINDOW OF W. J. PALMER & SON, BUFFALO, N. Y. stumps place alternately red and white geraniums and lobelias for a red, white and blue effect. Place a mirror below for a reflection and finish with some moss of the southern variety. Blue hydrangeas should be used for the background on either side in groups, and between these groups suspend a large silk American flag. AN AUTOMOBILE WINDOW. Have a wire frame made to resemble ;in automobile. Do not moss it too thickly. For the body use scarlet car- nations, for the wheels scarlet geran- iums, using the single flower; make the axle of some yellow flower. Also make the front extension of geraniums in a flat mass of the single flower. For the canopy use ivj- or galax leaves, with sprays of ivy leaves to wind around the canopy supports. For the dash- board and wind guard use ivy with an edge of some yellow flower—using this combination for the miniature lamps. Bank handsome tall palms in the cen- ter of background with smaller groups in either corner. Cover the floor of the window with sand or fine gravel and a wide border of grass—using very small ferns, etc., to finish where necessary. A. E. Kluxder. MIDDLEPOET, N. T.—J. G. Gould and M. Spangenberg have interests in com- mon in the Wholesale Cut Flower Co., of 495 Washington street, Buffalo, and Mr. Spangenberg and wife have mov- ed to the latter city. FLORISTS' PALMS. Fighting: Insect Pests. As the weather grows warmer there is likely to be a fresh outbreak of in- sects in the palm house, for, even though the plants have been carefully cleaned before repotting, there are sure to be some of these pests that have been passed over, and few of them are needed in order to re-col- onize the house. The various prepar- ations for spraying and dipping have different degrees of value as insect- icides, some being efiicacious against some insects only, while others will endure more insecticide than the plants are able to stand. Speaking in a general way, the various oily t)rep- arations must be used cautiously on foliage plants, for while the mature leaves may be able to stand a given strength of the insecticide, the young leaves that are just unfolding will not bear nearly so much, the consequence being that the plants are subject to injury in the part that shows the most. Even too much soap allowed to soak down in the heart of a young palm will frequently rot off the cen- ter leaf. But used carefully, the sulpho-tobacco soaps have much value as a dip, and will go a long way to- ward keeping a house of palms in a clean condition, always provided that the treatment is commenced before the plants get badly infested, and is continued afterward at regular inter- vals. Prompt treatment before the insects get control is the proper meth- od, and will do away with a lot of scrubbing and cleaning, to say noth- ing of avotling a lot of injury to the foliage. An aphis that varies in color ac- cording to the plant upon which it feeds, being sonretimes gray or slate- colored and sometimes nearly black, is frequently found upon the young and unexpanded leaves of the palms during the spring and summer months, and not only weakens and discolors the foliage, but also makes it very dirty. This insect is readily disposed of by means of fumigating with nico- tine paper, or by spraying with nico- tine solution, the fumigation being the easiest method from the fact that the smoke will reach all around the growth, while the spraying may only strike one side of a leaf. Yellow thrips is another warm weather pest that is liable to do much harm to arecas and kentias in particular, though not confining its attacks to those palms. This insect may also be destroyed by fumigating or spraying, or by both combined, the fumigating being more effective if the foliage of the plants and the atmosphere of the house is moist at the time of the ap- plication. Thorough syringing will do much to prevent attacks of red spider on the palms, but during the winter latanias are quite likely to develop

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