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HORTICULTURE 



July 29. 1916 



Est. 1765 



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the tops with a cultivator of the sweep 

 type. 



There still may be a few plants car- 

 ried over by hard-shell bulbs which 

 have been very slow in germinating. 

 The farmer, therefore, should be pre- 

 pared to repeat the deep plowing late 

 in the fall, and to use a cleanly culti- 

 vated crop the second spring. This 

 treatment, which can be carried out 

 with little extra labor and expense, 

 has proved in practice an almost cer- 

 tain method of eradicating wild onions 

 in two years. 



Experience has shown that in the 

 case of small grains on infested fields 

 if plowing is delayed until a late date 

 in the fall and the land is then planted 

 to small grain, only a few onion plants 

 will ripen their early bulblets by har- 

 vest time the following summer. Since 

 the plowing to be effective against the 

 onion must be done at such a late 

 date as to interfer with the best de- 

 velopment of fall-sown grains, spring 

 grains should l)e planted where it is 

 possible. If fall grain must be sown 

 the farmer should bear in mind that 

 the delayed planting probably will re- 

 duce the yield. 



Grain raisers in wild-onion districts 

 should be particularly careful to keep 

 their seed free from the bulblets. This 

 can be accomplished by thorough dry- 

 ing before cleaning, as the bulbs when 

 ■ dry are lighter than the grain and can 

 be winnowed out. The safest way, 

 however, is to obtain seed from an out- 

 side source where no onion exists or 

 to produce seed grain on a separate 

 patch kept absolutely free from the 

 onion. 



In lawns the aerial bulblets are sel- 

 dom produced because the tops are 

 kept cut back with the lawn mower, 

 but the plant propagates by producing 

 underground bulbs and is most often 

 found growing in clusters. To eradi- 

 cate from lawns where the onions are 

 not too plentiful, a good plan is to dig 

 out the entire cluster with the mat- 

 tock when the soil is soft. The hole 

 thus made should be filled with soil 

 and planted to grass seed. Another 

 •successful method for killing onions in 

 lawns is by the use of chemical plant 

 poisons, as coal-tar creosote oil or car- 

 bon bisulphide. A small amount of 

 the poison should be applied directly 

 to each cluster. This can best be done 

 by using a small spring-bottom oil can. 

 After the onlors are dead the bare 

 spot left should be seeded to grass. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



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1,190,605. Protecting-Shield for Plants 

 John Stockfleth, San Francisco, Cal. 



l,l!il.643. Lawn and Garden Sprinkler. 

 Andrew Wilson and Albert Pinkava. 

 Springfield, N. J. 



1,191,814. Leaf-Gathering and Lawn- 

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FLORICULTURE IN OHIO STATE 

 UNIVERSITY. 



Mr. Alfred Vivian, Dean of the Uni- 

 versity, writes that the College of Ag- 

 riculture of Ohio State University is 

 undertaking to develop the work of 

 instruction in Floriculture in a much 

 more elaborate way than has been 

 possible in the past. The Floriculture 

 business of Ohio is very large, but up 

 to the present time, it has not been 

 possible to give this work the consid- 

 eration it deserves for lack of proper 

 facilities. The new horticultural build- 

 ing, with its excellent greenhouse 

 eciuipment, now makes it possible for 

 the College to take up this work and 

 put it on a firm basis. Alfred C. 

 Hottes, of Cornell University, has 

 been engaged to take charge of the 

 development of the work in Floricul- 

 ture. 



Mr. Hottes received his secondary 

 education in the high schools of 

 Ithaca. N. Y.. and was graduated from 

 Cornell University in 1913, receiving 

 his Master's degree in the following 

 year. Since that time he has been 

 instructor in floriculture at Cornell 

 University. He is enthusiastic regard- 

 ing the possibilities of floriculture in 

 Ohio, and comes to the College with 

 the heartiest recommendations of 

 such men as Dean L. H. Bailey. He 

 is a member of the Nomenclature 

 Committee of the American Gladiolus 

 Society. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 



Minot, N. D.— Geo. E. Valker. addi 

 tions. 



Webster City, la.— Curtis Floral Co. 

 additions. 



Youngstown, O.— W. D. O'Connor, 

 one house. 



Maywood, III.— Wm. Wichtendahl 

 house 27 x 100. 



Elkhart, Ind.— C. G. Conn, one house 

 and conservatory. 



Old Bennington, Vt.— Edward H. 

 Everett, enlarging. 



Chestnut Hill, Mass. — Andrew Adie, 

 conservatory 18x75. 



Steilarton, N. S. — Stellarton Nurse- 

 ries, house 23 x 100. 



Baltimore, Md.— George Morrison, 

 additions and alterations. 



Norwalk, Ct.— R. E. Morrison. 58 

 Van Zandt avenue, one house. 



Dallas, Tex. — Lang Floral & Nursery 

 Co., Haskell avenue, two houses. 



Providence, R. I. — Estate Louise 

 Evans, 27 Calla street, one house. 



Spokane. Wash. — Peters & Sons, 

 Wellesley avenue, range of houses. 



NON-KINK WOVEN HOSE 



In any length (one piece) 

 with couplings. 14c. per 

 foot. Unequalled at the 

 price. Remnants, shorter 

 than 50 feet, 10c. per toot. 

 with couplings. 



HOSE V.4L,VE— 10c. 



All !»ras9 except the hand 

 wheel. Has a removable 

 leather disk which Is easily 

 replaced to keep water 

 tight. Stuffing box pre- 

 vents leaks at stem. 



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 Hose "RIVERTON." 



lurnishcil in lengths up 

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^-inch, per ft., 15 c. 

 keel of 500 ft" " i4Mc* 

 2 Ree!s, loooft., " 14 c. 

 H-inch. •' 13 :. 



Keels. 500 ft., " 1354c. 

 Couplings furnished 



RENRY L DREER, 



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Evans 20th Century Arm 



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 others tried to imitate it. Write for our 

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POTS 



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 ^ Mth • M 8to., WMhinrton, D. O. ^ 



The Annual Meeting of the 

 Florists Hail Association of 

 America will be held at Con- 

 vention Hall at Houston, Texas, 

 at 9 a. m. Wednesday, August 

 16, 1916. 



JOHN G. ESLER, Sec. 



