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HORTICULTURE 



September 5, 1914 



THE BOSTON S. A. F. CONVENTION- 



Report of Committee on Final Resolu 

 tlons. 



The delegates to the convention of 

 the S. A. F., Boston, August 18th to 

 21st, 1914, having been the recipients 

 of many courtesies, desire to express 

 their thanks. 



We admire the hearty and efficient 

 co-operation of the Allied Horticultural 

 Interests of Boston, which made pos- 

 sible the delightful succession of en- 

 tertainments during our entire visit. 

 It is gratifying to note the sympathy 

 and co-operation of the municipal au- 

 thorities, which made possible the 

 Convention Garden, which was so de- 

 sirable a feature that it should be. if 

 possible, continued at all future con- 

 ventions. We appreciate the presence 

 of the Hon. James M. Curley. Mayor of 

 Boston, whose hearty words of sympa- 

 thy and welcome signalized the formal 

 opening of the Convention Garden. We 

 also thank His Excellency David I. 

 Walsh, the Governor of the great Com- 

 monwealth of Massachusetts, who, 

 leaving the pressing duties of his 

 office, came to express his welcome 

 and his high appreciation of the work 

 in which the members of the Society 

 are engaged. 



Mr. Joseph J. Lannin. president of 

 the Boston American Baseball team 

 deserves the thanks of a very large 

 number of the visitors, who availed 

 themselves of the invitation to games 

 in progress during our visit. The la- 

 dies of the S. A. F. are enthusiastic in 

 expressing their delight at the results 

 of the efforts made in their particular 

 behalf. In summing up we may say 

 that nothing was left undone to make 

 our stay in Boston both profitable and 

 enjoyable. 



Robt. Craig, E. G. Hill, Olaf J. Olson, 

 Committee. 



Addition to Report of Judges of Trade 

 Exhibit. 



We have examined the bolted steel 

 purlin clamp exhibited and used in the 

 construction of John C. Moninger Com- 

 pany greenhouses, and after carefully 

 considering the good features of this 

 ■fitting, we do recommend that a certifi- 

 cate of award of the highest mention 

 be given to the John C. Moninger Com- 

 pany, Chicago and New York, for this 

 •fitting. This fitting is made for any 

 sized pipe, and is of steel, galvanized. 

 This bolted clamp fitting takes the 

 place of the old-style split tee. and is a 

 great improvement. The pipe support 

 Ts placed directly underneath the pipe 

 purlin, and the split fitting goes 

 around the pipe purlin and down 

 on the sides of the support. A 

 ■bolt then passes through the split fit- 

 ting and the pipe support. When this 

 bolt is tightened and considering that 

 the pipe support is close to the purlin, 

 there is no possibility of the support 

 swaying. The fitting cannot loosen 

 and thus makes a tight clamp. 



W. H. Siebrecht, Prank H. Traendlv 

 Joseph A. Manda, Judges. 



Department of Plant Registration, 

 Public notice is hereby given that 

 as no objection has been filed against 

 the registration of the Sweet Pea, 

 Selma Swenson, by Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, New York and Chicago, same 

 becomes complete. 



John Young, Sec'y. 

 Aug. 22, 1914. 



MYRIOPHYLLUM PROSERPINA- 

 COIDES. 



For many years past the splendid 

 specimen of Myriophyllum proserpina- 

 coides, or parrot's feather, which 

 grows in the bowl of a fountain at 

 the North front of the Treasury De- 

 partment, has attracted thousands of 

 visitors. Great care is given it and it 



responds with rapid and luxuriant 

 growth. Although beautiful at the pre- 

 sent time it will require about two 

 months more before it reaches its 

 zenith and covers the entire bowl, it- 

 self of large dimensions. 



REPLANTING RASPBERRIES AND 

 ASPAfiAGUS 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



I have an old ra,spberry bed that I would 

 like to lift this fall and replant in another 

 part of llie Rarden. By doinc this will 

 I hey fruit next year as well as if I did 

 i.ot move them? Would you advise laying 

 the oanes down and protecting them this 

 winter? 



We also have an old asparagus bed that 

 is surrounded by trees. Can these old 

 plants be lifted and successfully replanted 

 in another place? 



Any information you can give me on the 

 above subjects will be sreatly appreciated 

 by A SUBSCRIBER. 



If the raspberry canes are not too 

 weak and if "Subscriber" can lift 

 them carefully with considerable earth 

 on the roots and then give them very 

 careful winter protection, I am sure 

 he would get a fair crop, but not a 

 full one. as so much depends upon how 

 the moving is done and also upon 

 what kind of a winter we have. I 

 would risk it and expect a fair crop. 

 Lay the canes down. 



The old asparagus roots cannot be 

 moved with any degree of success. 

 "Subscriber" had better start a new 

 bed with good healthy young roots. 

 He should plant one-year roots. 



Wilfrid Whekler, 



Concord, Mass. 



THE WHITE FLY PROBLEM. 



Editor Hobticulture: 



The many times that the question 

 was put to me at the S. A. F. trade 

 exhibit in Boston, "What can be done 

 to destroy the white fly?" leads me 

 to believe that many of our florists 

 have not yet discovered that nothing 

 short of a continuous warfare, until 

 all vestige of the pest disappears 

 from the house, is the only successful 

 remedy for combating the white fly. 

 This is necessary whether the method 

 employed is spraying or fumigating. 



The following facts may prove in- 

 teresting to some of your readers: 

 Both the adult and young white fly 

 succumb readily to most insecticides 

 recommended for sap-sucking insects, 

 but when spraying careful application 

 is requisite so as to come in contact 

 with them. After such an application 

 the white fly will disappear from the 

 house for some days only to reappear 

 in most instances; but this is another 

 brood hatched from the eggs which 

 seem immune even from the deadly 

 cyanide gas. As the fly is hatched 

 out, spraying or fumigating should 

 immediately follow and this should be 

 persistently kept up, until all signs of 

 the presence of the fly disappear, at 

 intervals of five or six days. To over- 

 come this pest a half dozen sprayings 

 or fumigations are sometimes neces- 

 sary. Many growers seem to be under 

 the impression that the remedies 

 tliey use merely "dope" the fly and 

 that the return of the insects in a 

 short time is due to their surviving 

 from the "dope." This is not so. for 

 the growers have several generations 

 to fight until the eggs present in the 

 house are all hatched and the broods 

 destroyed as they make their appear- 

 ance. 



A new formula for spraying has re- 

 cently been introduced, in the form of 

 using cyanide of potassium diluted in 

 water. 1 am not aware whether its 

 advocates have experimented to dis- 

 cover what the effects would be on 

 human life if this were applied to 

 fruits and vegetables, or even to flow- 

 ers which are freely handled and at 

 times reach the mouth. There would 

 appear to be much damage if they 

 were sprayed even with a much di- 

 luted form of liquid containing the 

 deadly cyanide of potassiimi. There 

 can be no doubt that for leaf-eating 

 insects cyanide diluted in water would 

 be most deadly; but a warning 

 should be sounded through the trade 

 l)apers to those who may attempt to 

 use it in this form that there is no 

 poison more dangerous to handle, and 

 that even an infinitesimal part reach- 

 ing the tongue will prove fatal. 



M. C. Ebel, 



The Official Trade Register for 1914 

 of the New Zealand Association of 

 Nurserymen has been received. This 

 includes the Seventh Annual Report 

 and Balance Sheet of the Association. 



RECORD PRICE FOR POTATOES. 



There is alwiys soniethinj,' nvw "under 

 tlio sun" and the latest game has been 

 played on Mr. Blakemore. owner of the 

 greenhouses on Speen street. West Natick. 

 Some ingenious rascal pulled up his pota- 

 toes and then put tlu^ vines back in the 

 ground ag.iln. so as to give the appear- 

 ance of being undisturbed. 



The loss of a considerable portion of 

 the crop was discovered last week, and at 

 the same time a lady's gold watch was 

 found in the potato patch. The owner of 

 the watch, evidently, has no desire to re- 

 cover his or her property in view of the 

 fact that a prosecution for theft probably 

 liangs over them. 



Notwithstanding the rise in the price of 



