October S, 1910 



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ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Wm. Bouche, one of the best land- 

 scape gardeners about here is travel- 

 ing in the east looliing over landscape 

 work. 



Ostertag Bros, had a few large dec- 

 orations last week for downtown open- 

 ings. The Greenfelder Bros, was the 

 largest, costing $S00. 



H. C, Irish, superintendent of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, is back 

 from a trip to St. Paul where he at- 

 tended the Conservation meeting. 



L. P. Jensen, gardener for the Busch 

 place, has written a fine article on 

 Lawn Making in Bulletin No. 10. which 

 is issued by the Missouri State Board 

 of Horticulture. 



The Florist Club will hold its regu- 

 lar monthly meeting on Thursday af- 

 ternoon, Oct. 13th. Secretary Beneke 

 says watch for the special notice in the 

 monthly Florists' Bulletin which comes 

 out Oct. 11th. 



Robert F. Tesson. at one time in the 

 floral business, made a trip recently 

 to Texas. Robert now operates a large 

 farm in St. Louis County and reports 

 that a recent hail storm did a lot of 

 damage at his place. 



C. Young & Sons Co. have had a 

 big force at work decorating the hall 

 in the Coliseum for the Veiled Proph- 

 ets ball for Tuesday, Oct, 4th. Besides 

 several dozen wagon loads of plants. 

 1000 Beauties were used. 



The Retail Florist Association, of St. 

 Louis, held its regular monthly meet- 

 ing on Monday night, Oct. 3, in the 

 K. of C. Hall. The meeting was well 

 attended and many important matters 

 came before it for discussion. 



Gustave Gross, brother of Hugo and 

 Rudolph Gross, has just completed 

 three new houses, 32 x 100, which will 

 be planted in violets, carnations and 

 sweet peas. His consignments will be 

 sent to the W. C. Smith Wholesale 

 Floral Co., who have the majority of 

 the Kirkwood growers' consignments. 



Visitors: Julius Dillhof, represent- 

 ing Schloss Bros., New York; Ed. J. 

 Fancourt, of S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 Philadelphia; M. F. Widmer, Highland, 

 111.; W. J. Vesey, Jr., Fort Wayne, 

 Ind.; Parker T. Barnes, Harrisburg, 

 Pa. 



The New York horticultural import- 

 ers get in some peculiar shipments at 

 times. One from Europe recently, con- 

 sisted of 21.5 bags of garden soil for 

 rhododendron growing. On the other 

 hand a shipment from this side to 

 Europe was a consignment of 300,000 

 galax leaves. 



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INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE 



REGULATIONS OF U. S. DEPT. 



OF AGRICULTURE. 



At a public hearing on October 20, 

 1910, manufacturers and vendors of in- 

 secticides and fungicides will have an 

 opportunity to present their views 

 concerning the regulations that are to 

 be promulgated for the enforcement 

 of the new "insecticide law." The 

 hearing will be held in the room as- 

 signed to the "food board" at the 

 Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. 

 C. The new law, approved April 2C, 

 1910, is similar in form and substance 

 to the Food and Drugs Act, and for- 

 bids the adulteration or misbranding 

 of insecticides and fungicides that 

 pass in interstate commerce. A com- 

 mitte appointed by the Secretaries of 

 the Treasury, Commerce and Labor, 

 and Agriculture will draw up the regu- 

 lations. The committee is composed of 

 R. E. Cabell, Commissioner of Internal 

 Revenue; Chas. Earl, Solicitor of the 

 Department of Commerce and Labor, 

 and Geo. P. McCabe, Solicitor of the 

 Department of Agriculture. The latter 

 is chairman of the committee. 





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