May 10, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



447 



BORROWED IDEAS. 

 A Commonsense Tip. 

 A writer in The Garden, the English 

 horticultural magazine, tells of a com- 

 monsense tip given him by an Amer- 

 ican farmer friend. He says all kinds 

 of insect's eggs and dangerous weeds 

 with their seeds, and creeping roots 

 that cannot be safely buried in their 

 fresh state without coming up again 

 from any depth can be effectually 

 killed and turned into splendid mar 

 nure by simply being mixed with or 

 covered by grass cuttings and other 

 green vegetable matter and trampled 

 down hard, which raises such a great 

 heat and fermentation as to kill them 

 outright It will be apparent that this 

 kind of burning has the great merit of 

 utilizing the whole of the . valuable 

 manuring quality of the weeds instead 

 of destroying ninety-nine per cent of 

 them as by the suicidal custom of dry- 

 ing and setting fire to them with a 

 match. Of course care must be taken 

 that the dangerous roots and seeds be 

 well buried in the hottest part of the 

 fermenting heap, and put back a sec- 

 ond time if any have escaped the first. 



Pruning the La France Rose 

 Some very interesting suggestions 

 about the pruning of the La France 

 rose are found in one of the English 

 Garden magazines. The writer says 

 that this old time favorite is rarely 

 pruned as it should be with a view to 

 the production of as many blooms as 

 possible. "I have never seen very 

 satisfactory plants," he continues, 

 "that were severely pruned nor light- 

 ly cut back. A medium course seemed 

 to be the best in my case, and I tried 

 such pruning, after reading the ex- 

 periences of a rose grower who had 

 several plants in very small beds in 

 different parts of his lawn. He had 

 tried hard pruning without success, so 

 he decided to thin out the weak 

 branches, and to shorten the remain- 

 ing ones, some being cut back to one- 

 third the weaker ones to two-thirds of 

 their length. In the course of a few 

 years after such annual pruning, the 

 bushes measured about four feet high, 

 and three feet through, forming splen- 

 did specimens and flowering profusely. 

 Every spring a good mulch of rotted 

 manure was put on, and covered 

 with a layer of good fibrous loam." 



Destroying the Strawberry Weevil. 



According to the New Jersey Exper- 

 iment Station, dusting the strawberry 

 plants as the buds appear will keep 

 the weevils away. The dust is com- 

 posed of one part dry arsenate of lead 

 and five parts powdered sulphur. This 

 does not kill all the weevils, but drives 

 them off. As for a device for apply- 

 ing the dust, the "News Letter" says: 



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 and other devices were used by grow- 

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COMING MEETINGS AND EXHIBI- 

 TIONS. 



New York City. — Hort. Society of New 

 York, flower show at Botanical Mu- 

 seum, Bronx Park, May 10 and 11. 

 Geo. V. Nash, Sec'y., New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y. 

 City. 



Boston, Mass. — Spring conference, Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners at 

 Hort. Hall, May 16 at 6 p. m. M. 

 C. Ebel, Sec'y, Madison, N. J. 



Chicago — American Seed Trade Ass'n, 

 annual convention, June 24 to 26. 

 Secretary, C. E. Kendell. 216 Pros- 

 pect Ave., Cleveland, O. 



Chicago — American Association of 

 Nurserymen, convention, Hotel Sher- 

 man, Chicago, June 25,. 26 and 27. 

 Charles Sizemore, Louisiana. Mo.. 

 Sec"y. 



Detroit, Mich.— S. A. F. and O. H. Con- 

 vention at Acadia Hall. Aug. 19. 20 

 and 21. Secretary, John Young, 1170 

 Broadway, N. Y. City. 



Hartford, Conn. — Conn. Hort. Society, 

 fall flower show, Sept. 9, 10 and 11. 



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