. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 16 The Florists* Review NOTSICBBB .2, cially good. We also use Paris green and sugar. Drop a pinch of either o£ the two remedies here and there, where the bugs are likely to get it, and in a few days they will disappear; if not, repeat the application. A. F. J. B. CARNATION BUST. I am sending some carnation leaves which have spots on them. There seems to be a brown powder coming out of the infected places. Would a nicotine spray or Aphis Punk fumigation do any goodf Please inform me as to the cause and the best remedy. J. M. D.—N. M. The dis
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 16 The Florists* Review NOTSICBBB .2, cially good. We also use Paris green and sugar. Drop a pinch of either o£ the two remedies here and there, where the bugs are likely to get it, and in a few days they will disappear; if not, repeat the application. A. F. J. B. CARNATION BUST. I am sending some carnation leaves which have spots on them. There seems to be a brown powder coming out of the infected places. Would a nicotine spray or Aphis Punk fumigation do any goodf Please inform me as to the cause and the best remedy. J. M. D.—N. M. The disease you complain of is the common carnation rust. The nicotine or Aphis Punk would have absolutely no effect on it. Bordeaux mixture is the best remedy yet discovered. Pick off as many of the affected leaves as practical and then spray once in ten days with the Bordeaux. Also paint one of your steam pipes with a thick paint made of equal parts of sulphur and lime, using water to make the liquid. A. P. J. B. DIED AFTEB BENCHINa. I am enclosing a carnation plant and should like to know what is the trouble with it. I have 500 of these plants. The variety is Enchantress. When I planted them they were clean and healthy, but after a few days they wilted and started to become dry, like the one sent you. M. W.—N. J. The specimen submitted does not dis- close any reason for its dying. There is no stem-rot or branch-rot visible and there are only a few specks of leaf- spot, which may have appeared during the last stages of the plant's existence. Neither does your letter give any defi- nite clue. The fact that the plants wilted badly after benching might indi- cate that they wilted so severely as to ruin them. Certainly there has been no growth of either root or top. Bet- ter throw them out and use the room for some other crop. A. P. J. B. LEAF-SPOT ON CARNATIONS. The enclosed foliage was picked from a number of carnation plants that seem to be withering and drying up—evi-
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