The Weekly. Florists' Review, 



Jan OAKY 7, ISO*. 



the f.^ If ^°^/a student to take up 



thus losing no time ^^ to the 



The subjects most ^pp ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 



Sf 'f 'tbe'^corre pondenee course are: 

 of in the <:°" ,^ . propagation of 

 Plant lif?'X/„^:°°cUme?cial fertil- 

 plants, .^"^J;„;\°"' 'insects and insecti- 

 iPJ^' '?^ wsons-' farm manures, seven 

 cides, SIS lessons i growing, six 



l-^""!: CeUbTe gardrnini, nine les- 

 lessons; 7«?etao'« o lessons. 



sons; and tile ^^^^^.f ' . „ny time, per 

 Students may enroll at any^^_^^,^P,,. 



sonally or by better, m ^^ 



tificate of '"/'^.^\\tborks necessary in 



to secure any °^ ^^lJ°^\nce from the 



fSnVa%rpT- -' - - - 



^rt:;rn::S^Is^^^^ 



tention teing givei to a°y ^ j „„ 

 study except th-e be ring ^^ 



agriculture, ^f'^.^'i'^';' ^osfible in the 

 practical kno.^dge as possib^^. ^^^ 



-^uirbW^ef Of a.ri^^^^^^^^ 



courses. ■ ■ „ +n take the coUegi- 



Students desiring to take t^ ^^ 



ate course of tour ^^1 „_trance. These 

 p,ss an ™-Xir "v-ruB parts 



"^Tl^r ta?e The time and place can 

 of the state. i_ . ^ the college. 

 be ascertained by ^"Jin^ v 



There is a P^^^P"^^ "^^ xTm fatLn. No 



faiUng . to Pff „ f ,"^itlon in this or any 

 charge is made for tuition ^^^^^^ 



other course m ag"eulture ^^^ 



college expenses ^^iJ^jJ'^^^.^ in the 

 stationery, fo'^, <=°*°" ^-ri-ils etc., used 

 ^^^nte^S^ctTc^^tm^lt^tn: of the 



luid?el '^ B^rd f^'^o.ald StS 



than $6 or «J P% ~ is required to 

 giate course each stuaeni, ^ ^ ^ iU 

 Iny a military uniform, mibtary ^^^ 

 being compulsory m thi^ cour ^^^.^_ 

 TSf armrstSiotrat° the college 

 ^ho Isln^cormand of the college bat- 



'"instruction in the agricultural branAeB 

 is ^^videynto classroom wc^^^adp^^^ 



tical work m tne '^ ^^ j^ the 



greenhouse. ^^^F^ • Jj^f "^ l^tures .vith 

 classroom IS principally oy ^^^^_ 



text books fo^ «^«;;°^f-to the class- 

 i^,^L":dr"C:otstothepi.eH- 



'^\:te special studies relating to the 

 agriciaturalcours^^be^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



'^Srat%to^^f^din. ;eterina^^ 

 -;? '\:' t" nlrafhTad of ngricul- 



various crops. Also commercial fertil- 

 Izis thiir manufacture, composition 

 anT'how to use them intelligently and 

 understandingly. He will fudy farm 

 management, implements and machinery, 

 SiliT material and construction of 

 Snfs, surface and tile drainage 

 grasses and forage plants, weeds and 

 their eradication, different methods of 

 plowing and preparing the ground for 

 ?he various crops, and the la-s rdat" 

 ing to drainage, roads, fences, timber, 



'*lgrieultural chemistry treats of how 

 plants grow. And this, I think is the 

 keynote of all agricultural or horticul- 

 tural education. How Plants grow, how 

 thev live, and how they feed, to have 

 a Thorough knowledge of the workings 

 of the digestive organs of the plant; to 

 understand the chemical changes of the 

 fo d as it is absorbed by the roots, 

 transferred to the leaves and then for- 



NOTE 



The Editor is pleased 

 when a Reader 

 presents his ideas 

 on any subject treated 

 in the KEVIEW. As 

 experience is the hest 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 exchange of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brought out 

 by discussion. 



aary. Write as you would taiK wneu 

 doing your best. 



WE SHALL BE QLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM YOU. 



warded to the different parts of the 

 Xnt as it is needed to make roots 

 % tLi flowers If we understand 



twf^: cln'^rorr more intelUgently and 

 consequently more effectively m any 

 branch of borticulture or agriculture we 

 may choose to follow Agri ultura 

 cheLstry includes <=bemistry of the sm 

 the manufacture and chemistry of com 

 mercial fertilizers, chemistry of fruits, 

 farm products, etc. 



In horticulture the student will be 

 taught botany, floriculture propagation 

 of plants and fruits, treatment of in- 

 sects, spraying for fungous diseases and 

 insects, etc. 



I have not tried to give a complete 

 list of subjects covered in any of the 

 agricultural^ourses at State College, bu 

 merely a rough outline of the work. The 

 field Lvered is very broad and compre- 

 hensive. I neglected to menUon land- 

 scape work, which comes under horti 

 culture. , J „ „* 



Apart from the actual knowledge of 

 plants fertilizers, etc., obtained through 

 rcou^se at the 'college, the benefit of 

 the student's increased >°terest m h s 

 work cannot be overestimated. For just 

 Is his knowledge of plants becomes 

 ^renter, so wall his love for_ them in- 

 crease and a workman who is in love 

 with his work is surelv worth more than 

 one who works only for wages. From 



my own experience, I say to the young 

 mln, go to State College if you possibly 



can. 



THAT LITTLE WHITE FLY. 



I would like to know how to get rid of 

 the little white fly in the houses of mixed 

 ;' t plants. We have used tobacco smoke 

 and strong spraying but cannot get riJ 

 of them. They deposit their eggs on the 

 nndersTde of the leaves of ^egomas and 

 other plants and nothing seems to disturb 

 them. Last summer was the first i saw 

 of this pest, on tomatoes, and m the fall 

 they moved into the greenhouse. 



In addition to the above, I have jast 

 received another complaint fjom a Mr 

 Robert J., enclosing a leaf 0*7^^*^^^ 

 be a greenhouse hibiscus. Whatever it 

 may be H's a dreadful sight. The sur- 

 fece of the leaf is almost hidden with this 

 Utt'e wh te pest. We have never been 

 troubled .^-ith this fly and, therefore, I 

 "nnot speak with accuracy regarding its 

 extermination or, what i%/f,""'.^*' 

 prevention. As it seems to be wide 

 spread there must be some who hav^ 

 found the way to its destruction. Now 

 let us hear from them. 



It seems to me that t^e hydrocyanic 

 acid gas should and would ki 1 it. Ihere 

 seems to be a dread of this gas with 

 many people and on the part of some 

 whos"^ opinion and experience I arn ^omad 

 to respect. We all know a ^o|et leaf 

 s as susceptible to injury as most of our 

 areenhouse plants and by using the gas 

 ly'X f ollWing formula I have only 



Xe'^rhaTU^ertli^^Ub^^^^^^ 



flv " But, remember, it won t kiU tne 

 e|gs, so the gas should be appbed about 

 th?e^ times at intervals of about ten 

 day? The formula quoted has been usea 

 b7 several persons to whom I recom- 

 Jfended it and they wrote that it answered 



finely. , , . -A 



1 quart sulphuric aciQ. 



1 quart water. 



5 ounces cyanide of potassium. 

 r^Iix the acid and water in a two-gallon 

 butter jar. ^Vhen your ]ars are all m 

 pla": walk along and drop m the five- 

 ounce parcels of cyamde. Don t linger 

 over the jar, because the fumes are not 

 healthy for anything that has lungs. 



The above quantities are for 2000 cubic 

 feet of air space in the house. Keep the 

 house closed'all night. Now it you ar 

 afraid of burning any plants let t\e 

 above do for 3,000 cubic feet of air space 

 Last fall afte^ very slightly touching up 

 the tips of some violet leaves I cut down 

 the quantity to one pint water, one pmt 

 of acUl and two and a half ounces of 

 cvaS^^e to 2,000 cubic feet of atmos- 

 phere While this strength would not in- 

 jure the young fronds of an ad^antum, ^t 

 ias scarcely strong e'^O"/^, *» ?^" *^' 

 aphis down in the crown of the plant. 



There is a most useful ii^secticide sold 

 by seedsmen that only a very few of our 

 pLent day florists know «f or a least 

 use A European florist of thirty or 

 f^'r y years ago would not be without it 

 and it is made in a country where they 

 Continue to manufacture an article genu- 

 ine regardless of a world wide PoP"™. 

 Dundee marmalade, Bass pale ale, Cole 

 man's mustard, Worcestershire sauce 

 CroFS & Blackwell 's pickles and Guinness 

 Dublin stout are the same genuine stand- 



