. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. December 18, 1919. The Rorists^ Review 23. and in the same proportions. With either, great care should be taken in handling it and the fumes should not be inhaled. If your local druggists do not carry either sodium or potassium cyanide, they should at least be able to procure the former from some wholesale house in Chicago or St. Louis. Care should be taken to obtain a grade that is nearly chemically pure. L. E. T. BIOABD QEBANIUMS. We are sending you a sample plant of Eicard geraniums, or such we believe it to be. We have been shipping it with the
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. December 18, 1919. The Rorists^ Review 23. and in the same proportions. With either, great care should be taken in handling it and the fumes should not be inhaled. If your local druggists do not carry either sodium or potassium cyanide, they should at least be able to procure the former from some wholesale house in Chicago or St. Louis. Care should be taken to obtain a grade that is nearly chemically pure. L. E. T. BIOABD QEBANIUMS. We are sending you a sample plant of Eicard geraniums, or such we believe it to be. We have been shipping it with the Eicard label for several years and yesterday had a complaint that it was not true to name. We are also sending its flowers. They are all from 2-inch stock and consequently small. V. V, G.—0. If the geranium is not Alphonse Eic- ard it closely resembles it, but the speci- mens were so dried up when received that it was almost impossible to tell what variety it is. I would suggest that V. V. G. buy a few Eicards from a geranium specialist and compare them with the stock he has on hand. The variety Decorator greatly re- sembles Alphonse Eicard and is often substituted for it. M. P. SCAU) ON GERANIUMS. I am sending you some leaves and stems of ivy-leaved geraniums. Please tell me what is the trouble with them and what the remedy is. These have been growing in the same house where other geraniums and many other plants are growing without any trouble. K. G.—Pa. The leaves and stems of the ivy-leaved geraniums have every appearance of be- ing affected with some kind of scald, such as would come from the action of the bright sun on the plants after a pe- riod of dark days and excessive mois- ture. Also, if the plants are standing on coal ashes, the action of the sun on the wet ashes will cause a gas to rise from them, affecting the plants in the same manner as were the specimens sent. I have seen a similar trouble stop when limestone screenings were used in place of coal ashes for
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