. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. '..;,T Dkcbmbbb 24, 1914. The Florists^ Review 19 into flats and later pot the plants off. Bench them before they become pot- bound. Allow them a space 8x10 inches in the benches. A night temperatun* of 45 to 48 degrees suits them; it should not exceed 50 degrees in winter. Pink is the favorite color. Next in favor come white and yellow. There is little call for other colors and none at all for mixtures. C. W. MILLEPEDES. We are sending under separate cover some specimens of worms which we are unable to get rid of. We have tried almost every
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. '..;,T Dkcbmbbb 24, 1914. The Florists^ Review 19 into flats and later pot the plants off. Bench them before they become pot- bound. Allow them a space 8x10 inches in the benches. A night temperatun* of 45 to 48 degrees suits them; it should not exceed 50 degrees in winter. Pink is the favorite color. Next in favor come white and yellow. There is little call for other colors and none at all for mixtures. C. W. MILLEPEDES. We are sending under separate cover some specimens of worms which we are unable to get rid of. We have tried almost every method of fumigat- ing. Please tell us what to do to kill them and what they are, as we have never seen them until this season. H. F. C. The worms are millepedes, sometimes called thousand-legs. Tobacco dust sprinkled on them will kill them. They can be poisoned by scattering corn meal dough, well sweetened and mixed with Paris green sufficiently strong to give it a greenish color. When in the soil they can be suflfocated by using bisulphide of carbon, which is a thin liquid which volatilizes at an extremely low temperature. Pour a teaspoonful into holes twelve to eighteen inches apart each way in the beds or benches. Immediately fill in the hole after pour- ing in the liquid. The fumes soon per- meate all the soil. As this carbon is inflammable, do not use any naked lights while applying it. C. W. MOTT-LY MUSINGS. W. Brown, of Mann & Brown, Eieh- mond, Va., says there is "one blamed pest after another to ; In ad- dition to rust, the snapdragon has de- veloped spot, which is equally destruc- tive. Also, there is a mysterious visi- tor that deposits an egg in the calyx of the carnation, when or how has not been discovered, but the effect is seen when the bloom opens covered with a mildewy substance. As a considerable number are affected, this means serious loss. The plants could hardly be finer, especially their white seedling. The chrysanthemums at Thanksgi
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