. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. STIGMONOSE. As we are beginners in the grow- ing of carnations, will you kindly tell us what ails the plants of which we are sending you samples? The varie- ties we are sending are White En- chantress, White Lawson and Lady Bountiful. They are all planted in the same bench. In another bench we have other varieties of Enchantress, Harlowarden and Victory, but they are doing well. Please give us the name of the disease and state whether it spreads, as we believe it does. Is there any cure for it? Would you ad- vise us to take cuttings from the plants
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. STIGMONOSE. As we are beginners in the grow- ing of carnations, will you kindly tell us what ails the plants of which we are sending you samples? The varie- ties we are sending are White En- chantress, White Lawson and Lady Bountiful. They are all planted in the same bench. In another bench we have other varieties of Enchantress, Harlowarden and Victory, but they are doing well. Please give us the name of the disease and state whether it spreads, as we believe it does. Is there any cure for it? Would you ad- vise us to take cuttings from the plants or not? J. IxM. The disease you complain of is stig- monose, which has been the subject of numerous discussions in these columns this winter. By looking up your back numbers you will find the information you seek. I might add that this dis- ease does not spread from one plant to another, except in case a plant is inoculated by means of the punctures of insects. Unless you keep your plants scrupulously clean, there is, of course, great danger of this. A. F. J. B. CUTTINGS OR BILOOMS—WHICH? I write to ask something about the rooting of carnations. I read each week what A. F. J. B. has to say and think he is O. K., but what I wish to know is this: My carnation plants are making a good many shoots around the bottom of the plants, about five to six inches long. Will these make good cuttings? Or, if left on the plants, about what month will they flower? I can sell 25,000 to 40,000 cuttings from March to the first part of May, if I had them. In other years I bought them unrooted and rooted them, but I have been thinking of taking those bottom shoots instead of buying unrooted ones. I also remem- ber that when I threw the old plants out, about the first part of July, there were about twelve to fourteen nice green tops on them, about twelve to sixteen inches long, and if these had been put in sand when four or five inches long I would have had more rooted cuttings and would thus have
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