. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. »' V " 't^ -???'. •>.^.i* •>.??;:-x^' vi:^"^,"^''' T-?> -4,. ? » 20 The Florists^ Review OCTOBBS 5, AIiONa THE HUDSON. There has been a great deal heard of late with regard to the decadence of the violet-growing industry along the Hud- son. Bad news travels fast and, like the snowball rolling downhill, it grows as it goes. "The conditions among the growers in the Ehinebeck and Bed Hook district are not nearly so bad as has been reported. It is quite true that the profits in the last few years have not been so gre
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. »' V " 't^ -???'. •>.^.i* •>.??;:-x^' vi:^"^,"^''' T-?> -4,. ? » 20 The Florists^ Review OCTOBBS 5, AIiONa THE HUDSON. There has been a great deal heard of late with regard to the decadence of the violet-growing industry along the Hud- son. Bad news travels fast and, like the snowball rolling downhill, it grows as it goes. "The conditions among the growers in the Ehinebeck and Bed Hook district are not nearly so bad as has been reported. It is quite true that the profits in the last few years have not been so great as they were in the earlier days of the violet industry; it also is true that some of the growers have dropped violets and are growing sweet peas or carnations. But the number who have changed crops, really is not important; it is doubtful if it represents so much as ten per cent of the glass area in that district. There has been some renting to new growers on the part of those who have tired of the business, but the changes in the violet district probably are not so numerous as the changes in the trade at large through the country; most of those who started have succeeded and are still at it. It has been a not uncommon experi- ence for a man to have his greatest suc- cess in his first years of violet growing, but there are many whose crops are better today than when they started in the business. The principal cause of trouble has been the spot disease, commonly called leaf spot or black spot, though the circular spots are whit- ish with concentric rings of a darker shade. The root rot has been a much less serious menace. Some years there also has been much trouble with a blue- black grub that eats the roots of the plants, in some cases destroying forty per cent of the plants in a house, but its ravages have not been severe this season. The district as a whole may fairly be said to have healthier plants than in any of the last few years. There is less of the spot and t
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