. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. are given more time. Such trumpet narcissi as Trumpet major and Golden Spur will come in earlier than Emperor and Victoria. Treat them the same as hyacinths. Paper Whites do not need to, have their flats covered with coal ashes or other materials; other narcissi and tulips do. C. W. BUG. Will you kindly tell me how to rid mums, stevia and crotons of mealy bugf They cluster around the mum buds and completely destroy them. M. J. R. B. A good pressure of water properly directed through a spray nozzle on the hose should clean your plants. On cro
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. are given more time. Such trumpet narcissi as Trumpet major and Golden Spur will come in earlier than Emperor and Victoria. Treat them the same as hyacinths. Paper Whites do not need to, have their flats covered with coal ashes or other materials; other narcissi and tulips do. C. W. BUG. Will you kindly tell me how to rid mums, stevia and crotons of mealy bugf They cluster around the mum buds and completely destroy them. M. J. R. B. A good pressure of water properly directed through a spray nozzle on the hose should clean your plants. On cro- tons use some kerosene emulsion or other insecticide occasionally, but do not try this on the other plants. Hydro- cyanic acid gas and nicotine extracts can also be used to kill mealy bug. Joseph TrepeFs Little Daughter and Her Daddy's Four Brooklyn Stores. Spraying solutions would have no effect whatever on the condition of the plants. Have you kept the surface soil stirred persistently through the growing sea- son t ^ this were done by every grower I am sure we would have fewer poor asters. It is really astonishing how much drought plants will stand when the cultivator is kept going constantly. C. W. HER DADDY'S FOUR STOBES. Joseph Trepel, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is just about as proud of his little daugh- ter as she is of her daddy's four stores, and in the composite photograph repro- duced herewith, she forms the center- piece around which are grouped the four retail establishments of Mr. Trepel, who is styled on the postcard from which the accompanying illustration was made "Brooklyn's largest ; At his four stores, two on Broadway, one on Manhattan avenue and one on Lewis avenue, Mr. Trepel disposes of large quantities of flowers, such large quanti- ties, in fact, that he, like his brother, C. C. Trepel, is welcomed on West Twenty-eighth street when there is a surplus of stock on the New York wholesale market. Mr. Trepel is a vet- eran in the florists'
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