. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 881 the best. As regards rust, the Aphine Mfg. Co. has a new solution that erad- icates rust. I am glad to say that we are seldom affected with either of the two pests. I would just like to mention here, from a shipper's point of view, how hard it is to please everybody. A lot of growers will invariably buy the cuttings out of the sand. They have them expressed to them, and perhaps on arrival they lay around a few hours, then they are taken and potted and very often placed in a bright h
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 881 the best. As regards rust, the Aphine Mfg. Co. has a new solution that erad- icates rust. I am glad to say that we are seldom affected with either of the two pests. I would just like to mention here, from a shipper's point of view, how hard it is to please everybody. A lot of growers will invariably buy the cuttings out of the sand. They have them expressed to them, and perhaps on arrival they lay around a few hours, then they are taken and potted and very often placed in a bright house with no papers over them. If people will buy rooted cuttings, they must ex- pect a certain amount of loss. One cannot guarantee, under the best of •conditions, that they will be all right after their transfer to perhaps an en- tirely different continent. Speaking of this reminds me, we sent orders of 3,000 carnations to \^. W. Wells, In England, and they were delayed. In addition to the ordinary voyage, ten •days and we had word to say they were in tine condition on arrival and not one cutting lost. We had the same report from Germany. This is very en- •couraging, especially when others are shipped twenty miles and the con- •signee loses practically all of them. My advice when buying rooted cut- tings is to pot them up in moist soil and place them in a north house for a week, afterwards they can be brought out in the sunshine, and you will find that your percentage of loss is very small. Mothers' Day. The increased demand for white flow- -ers and especially white carnations on May 14, the day selected as Mothers' day, on which to commemorate the best mother that ever lived, one's own mother, is reported from all over the country, from large cities and small towns, -whether preparatory work in advertising had been done or not. Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, the origi- nator of the day, has always advocated the wearing of white carnations, which was her mother's f
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