. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. RATS EUIN CABNATIONS. For several days I have noticed that buds on our carnation plants have been nipped and partly eaten by rodents dur- ing the night. Chickweeds also are touched, but nothing else seems to be disturbed and I have found no tracks in the beds. I have noticed a few rats around the place. Do you think they are to blame? A. E. P. ers and use it according to directions. There is nothing like it for preventing red spider. A. F. J. B. The rats you see in your greenhouses no doubt chew your carnation blooms. Bats are fond of the j'oung se
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. RATS EUIN CABNATIONS. For several days I have noticed that buds on our carnation plants have been nipped and partly eaten by rodents dur- ing the night. Chickweeds also are touched, but nothing else seems to be disturbed and I have found no tracks in the beds. I have noticed a few rats around the place. Do you think they are to blame? A. E. P. ers and use it according to directions. There is nothing like it for preventing red spider. A. F. J. B. The rats you see in your greenhouses no doubt chew your carnation blooms. Bats are fond of the j'oung seeds of the blooms they chew off. A. F. J. B. AVERAGE CUT OF CARNATIONS. I have a small greenhouse planted with White Enchantress and Herald car- nations. This is my first experience in carnation growing; so I should like to ask some questions on the subject. How many blooms should one plant produce, under ordinary conditions? How long should they keep on blooming? I plant- ed mine about the middle of October. I was advised to put three inches of ma- nure in the bottom of the bench and fill the rest of the space, three inches, with sod soil. Was that right? In three months I have cut about two blooms per plant. The Enchantress plants look per- fectly healthy, but the Herald plants do not look quite so well. The blooms are not so large on either variety as they were at first. What is the best way to get rid of red spider? I have a hot water boiler and keep a temperature of about 50 de- grees at night and 60 to 80 degrees dur- ing the day. The stems are rather weak. Shall I apply lime, and in what form? W. P.—Neb. A fair, average cut from carnations planted in July or early August would be about fifteen blooms to the plant. Since your plants were not benched un- til October, you could hardly expect so many. Ten blooms per plant would per- haps be a fair average in your case. These late planted plants could not be expected to give as steady a cut of blooms as the earlier benched
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