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HORTICULTURi: 



January 12, 1907 



Wild 5milax, J^h'^^,. 



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 long stemmed PalHl LCaVeS, $2.50 per 100. MagUOlia, S2.50 per case, 16 cubic 

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CALDWELL, THE WOODSMAH, 



Introducer of the Wild Smilax. 



Caldwell, the Woodsman Decorating Co., Inc. 



EVERGREEN, 

 , ALA. 



NAPHTALIN AGAINST PLANT ENE- 

 MIES. 



By F. Ledien, Botanical Garden, Dres- 

 den, Germany. 



(Translated from "Moller.« Deutsche Gart- 

 ner Zeitnng," by G. Bleicken) 



Naphtalin is now often used as iii- 

 secticide rather to keep insects away 

 than to kill them, for it has been 

 demonstrated that insects do not 

 alight, and furthermore will not lay 

 their eggs, where a strong smell of 

 naphthalin prevails. 



For this reason I would at present 

 only recommend experiments against 

 such insects as have ability to move 

 about quickly; for instance, the 

 troublesome fly upon the mushroom 

 beds, or the asparagus bug, the fly 

 that produces the tine thread worm 

 in hothouses which destroys so easily 

 orchid seedlings and other germinate 

 ing plants, the white azalea moth, etc. 



In France they use naphtalin 

 against the cockchafer. The mixture 

 consists of 1000 kilo, naphtalin (2000 

 pounds), 8 hektoliter of sawdust (1 

 hektoliter equals nearly 100 quarts), 

 and .500 kilo, of sulphate of lime (1000 

 pounds). This is enough for about six 

 acres and costs in Europe about $40. 

 The strong odor prevails nearly four- 

 teen days and is sufficient to keep 

 away the female during the time of 

 egg-laying. To be economical, one 

 must, of course, use it at the exact 

 lime of the egg-laying of the cock- 

 chafer. 



As we know, there exists a multi- 

 tude of plant diseases, spread by fly- 

 ing insects, and often due to the in- 

 sects themselves. Whoever will find 

 on economical use of naphtalin 

 Hgainsc them should certainly achieve 

 big results. Sander & Sons, of St. Al- 

 bans, England, last summer tised 

 naphtalin against thrips in orchid 

 houses and against everything else 

 which crawls or flies. Mr. Sander 

 said to me that "even the frogs tum- 

 ble over." 



Upon a portable stove a tin sheet is 

 heated, and at a distance of five to 

 ten steps a quantity of naphtalin is 

 poured upon it and evaporated. Care 

 must be taken not to have the least 

 particle fall into the stove: also the 

 work must be done very rapidly, as 

 no human being can long endure the 

 gas following the evaporation of the 

 naphtalin; the house must be shut up 

 for several hours afterwards. The 

 exact portion of naphtalin to be used 

 for a specified space remains to be 

 found out by experiment; but as the 



stuff is very cheap and the results 

 obtained very lasting the expense need 

 not deter free experimentation by any- 

 one interested in the subject. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Eugene Haenlin will soon start in 

 business in Oneida, N. Y., on Glenwood 

 avenue. 



Miss Eda Burn, Nashville, Tenn., 

 has moved from Church St. to 107 

 Eighth Ave., N. 



Murray Patterson has purchased 

 the business of E. A. Fetters, 275 

 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



The basement of the Music Hall 

 Market, Boston, has been leased by T. 

 F. Galvin Corp., for a storeroom. 



W. A. Sefger, Jr., is the manager of 

 the Mullanphy Flower Co. doing busi- 

 nes.s at 24:!>1 N. Grand Ave., St. Lous. 



W. D. Chase of Chase & Son. New 

 London, 0.. drilled tor water and in 

 addition unearthed a fine vein of cop- 

 per. 



A petition has been presented to 

 the three park boards of Chicago to 

 increase the wages of gardeners to 

 $75 a month. 



A. Schmidt withdraws from the Riv- 

 erside Floral Co., with the opening of 

 the new year, and will be located at 

 his new houses in Riverside, 111. 



The bid of E. R. French for the 

 erection of a horticultural building at 

 the Exhibition Grounds, Toronto, 

 Canada, has been accepted by the 

 Board of Control; price $90,000. 



Benj. Hammond is sending out a 

 neat pocket calendar which contains 

 also an identification slip, weather 

 signals, interest laws and other in- 

 formation briefly stated for the busy 

 man. 



Misses Julia and Susan Wood of 

 Muskegon, Mich., have purchased the 

 two greenhouses at Ben ...ac Dhui, 

 the country estate of Rev. Dowie, the 

 self-styled Elijah. They will be moved 

 to their fruit farm at Valley View. 



The fifteenth announcement concern- 

 ing garden pupils, for January, 1907, 

 has been received from the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden. Young men desir- 

 ous of becoming gardeners should send 

 for a copy. They will find it very in- 

 teresting. 



W. L. Rpinenter, late of Lansdowne, 

 was in Philadelphia last week visiting 

 his old friends. He is now in a good 

 position and doing well. He intends 

 soon to branch out again on his own 

 account. Family differences were the 

 main reason for giving up the old busi- 

 ness. 



OBITUARY. 



George Gunderman, landscape gar- 

 dener, died on January 7, in Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., aged 88. One daughter 

 survives him. 



Alex. J. Park of South Chelmsford, 

 Mass., died at his home on December 

 30. He is survived by a wife, two 

 daughters and a son. 



Frederick A'ervaene, landscape gar- 

 dener, died at the home of his daugh- 

 ter in Bridgeport, Conn., on Decem- 

 ber :;0, at the age of 70. 



Charles Barton, night watchman at 

 Wessling's greenhouse, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., died on December 26, from in- 

 juries received by the explosion of a 

 lantern. 



Miss Clara Eaton Cummings. Hun- 

 newell professor of cryptogamic bot- 

 any at Wellesley College, died recently 

 in Concord, N. H., after an illness of 

 several months. 



Jerome Bock, who tor the past fifty 

 years has been a nurseryman in Bur- 

 lington, la., died in that city on De- 

 cember 22, at the age of 84. Three 

 daughters and a son survive him. 



Patrick Smith, well known as a land- 

 scape artist and gardener, died at his 

 home in South Bethlehem, Pa., on 

 December 28. Mr. Smith was born in 

 County Fermanagh, Ireland, on March 

 7. 1S:>3, and for thirty-seven years has 

 been a resident of South Bethlehem. 



INCORPORATED. 



A new company, of which D. Fuer- 

 stenberg is president. Eugene Bern- 

 heimer secretary and H. C. Geiger 

 treasurer, has been formed under the 

 name of The Florex Gardens, and fifty 

 acres of land purchased at North 

 Wales, Pa., 22 miles from Philadelphia. 

 They have found that the damp atmos- 

 phere from the Delaware river at 

 Edgely, where the Floral Exchange 

 greenhouses are located, is not con- 

 ducive to the best growth of American 

 Beauties, and they will grow them in 

 this new location, where they expect 

 to erect a house 150 feet wide in one 

 span by 425 feet long, covering over 

 one and a half acres, and stock it with 

 40,000 Beauties. The house will be of 

 truss coiistruction. Tea roses will 

 still be grown at Edgely. George 

 Samtman, late of Myers & Samtman, 

 will be superintendent of the new 

 place. 



