. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Dhcbmbbb 5, 1818. The Florists^ Review 17. MIDGE ON MUMS. I am sending you a box of chrysanthe- mum buds and foliage from plants which I bought last year. I would like to know what the disease is which is affect- ing them, the cause and the remedy for it. I never have seen anything of the kind before, but this fall all varieties of mums in my house are affected by it. E. S.—Mich. The mums submitted are badly in- fested with midge, which has been re- ported this season from practically all sections of the country. The origin of this midge is in doub
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Dhcbmbbb 5, 1818. The Florists^ Review 17. MIDGE ON MUMS. I am sending you a box of chrysanthe- mum buds and foliage from plants which I bought last year. I would like to know what the disease is which is affect- ing them, the cause and the remedy for it. I never have seen anything of the kind before, but this fall all varieties of mums in my house are affected by it. E. S.—Mich. The mums submitted are badly in- fested with midge, which has been re- ported this season from practically all sections of the country. The origin of this midge is in doubt; no one seems to know where it came from. Some growers seem to think it was imported, but I never heard of its being on mums in any other country, so I doubt if it was brought into this country on stock. There is just one way of getting rid of this midge, and that is by fumigating with tobacco dust. In most cases this will clean the stock, providing the tobacco dust used is of sufficient strength. It kills the pest as it hatches out every day. The specimens submitted were badly infested and I question if you would be able to cut any flowers from such plants. I doubt if it would pay to keep the stock. I would simply place it on the rubbish heap. C. H. T. CHBYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. Work of the Committees. The examining committees of the C. S. A. have submitted reports on new varieties as follows: At Cincinnati, November 16, Titanic, white, Japanese Incurved, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & Adrian. Mich., scored as follows on the commercial scale: Color, 18; form, 13; fullness, 9; stem, 14; foliage, 12; substance, 14; size, 10; total, 00. At Cincinnati, November 16, Silver Ball, white, Japanese incurved, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian. Mich., scored as follows on the commercial scale: Color, 18; form, 13; fullness, 9; stem, 14; foliage, 12; substance, 14; size, 10; total, 90. At Chicago, November 16, Robert E. Mills, a yellow sport of William Turner, Japanese
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