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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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variety being cpnsid-ered by some as an earlier producer ofgood flowers than Marie Louise thoughit runs out sooner in the spring. AboutOctober i a nudch of half rotten horsemanure is given covering the entire sur-face of the soil and thereafter water isused most sparingly until the warm daysof spring. In this age of national trade organiza-tions and the popularity and utility oflocal florists clubs in places where thetrade is well represented, it is indeedmost surprising and lamentable that thislarge and important community of vio-let growers is without an organizationof any kind to promote their connnoninterests, and the mere mention of theprobability of such a society here is meteverywhere with a dissenting voice in-dicating the utter futility of such an at-tempt, were it made. But, reflectingseriously upon the whole situation hereas conditions really exist, and afterclosely examining the chief factor inplant growin.g, the soil, and finding itas diversified in its composition as is
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CHRYSANTHEMUM OCTOBER FROST. found elsewhere, and having interviewedthe successful growers here, many ofthem mere boys, the wonder is all thegreater why Rhincbeck has produced inthe past, and some of its growers arestill producing with apparent ease andunconcern, the finest violets in the coun-try. J. F. S. Diseased California Violets. Ed. American Floeist :— California violets, showing a goodstrong growth and otherwise in a heal-thy state, have yellow diseased leaveslike those enclosed herewith. Pleasestate the cause and remedv. N. E. D. The California violets arc sufferingfrom what is called Mosaic disease.The unfavorable condition is under-stood to have some connection with thenutrition of the plants, but no methodof controlling the trouble can be sug-gested. If grown for flowers the yieldwill not be much aftected, but if forleaves, the plants may as well be at onceilestroyed. for while such plants some-times recover, usuallv they do not. B. T. G. Chrysanihemum October Frost. The

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