. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. NEMATODES IN CABNATION Do you know of anything that can be mixed with the soil, either in the compost pile or on the benches, to kill nematodes? The soil in which our carnations are growing is badly infested with them and the trouble is cutting our carnation crop in half. H. B.—Ala. The Louisiana state experiment sta- tion has done a great deal of work in the control of this pest and can prob- ably advise you better than anyone else. Address it at Baton Rouge, La. This trouble seems more prevalent in the southern states, though I am not sure
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. NEMATODES IN CABNATION Do you know of anything that can be mixed with the soil, either in the compost pile or on the benches, to kill nematodes? The soil in which our carnations are growing is badly infested with them and the trouble is cutting our carnation crop in half. H. B.—Ala. The Louisiana state experiment sta- tion has done a great deal of work in the control of this pest and can prob- ably advise you better than anyone else. Address it at Baton Rouge, La. This trouble seems more prevalent in the southern states, though I am not sure that it is entirely confined to that section. All the cases that have come to my notice have been below the Ma- son and Dixon line. A. F. J. B. SPACE FOB CARNATIONS. How large a space would 5,000 car- nation plants take up and how large a greenhouse would be required for that number? How many blooms would each plant produce and what would the re- ceipts and the clear profit be? M. B.—Can. It would reouire three benches 5x200 to hold 5,000 carnation plants, setting seven plants across the bench and spacing the rows ten inches apart. These benches would hold 4,682 plants, to be exact. A fair average of blooms per plant would be fifteen, depending entirely on your success as a grower. Their market value would depend on prevailing prices in your market and your profits would depend on the quality of your product and your economy in producing it. My advice to you would be to look about you and see how others are faring. If other growers are growing carnations and selling them profitably in your market, you can prob- ably do the same. A. F. J. B. CARNATION TEMPERATURE. "We are sending you two branches from our carnation plants, which seem to be affected with some disease. The shoots, you will notice, cramp and curl. Can the plants have suffered from cold? Our night temperature runs from 42 to 55 degrees, but it might have fallen below 42. In an adjacent service building we k
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