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HORTICULTURE 



March 14, 1914 



WATCHING FOR THE INSECT 

 PESTS. 



In the report submitted by C. L. 

 Marlatt, chairman of the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board, on the pests collected 

 during the month of January, 1914, 

 attention is called to the fact that one 

 egg mass of the Gypsy Moth was de- 

 tected on cedar from Japan, and a 

 single Brown Tail nest (?) has been 

 taken on Mahaleb stock from France. 

 The European Tussock Moth (Notolo- 

 phus antiqua Linn.) has been inter- 

 cepted on two shipments of Holland 

 rose stock, and the Oriental Moth 

 (Cnidocampa flavescens Walk.), which 

 has an extensive distribution in the 

 ■Orient, has been detected on plants 

 from Japan. The European pear scale 

 (Epidiaspis piricola Del G.), a coccid, 

 which has in recent years become es- 

 tablished in certain sections of Cali- 

 fornia, has been reported on pear seed- 

 lings from France. 



STORM DAMAGE IN MARYLAND. 



The great storm of March 1 did con- 

 siderable damage to florists. James 

 Glass had two greenhouses destroyed, 

 which contained sweet peas and dah- 

 lias which were all ruined, the loss 

 running into thousands. John A. 

 Nuth's chimney stack was blown 

 down; Walter Richmond had an end 

 of a big greenhouse blown down entire- 

 ly; John G. Killian's boiler set a fire 

 ■which destroyed two buildings — loss 

 over $2,000. All these were on Erdman 

 avenue. A score of other florists suf- 

 fered minor trouble, such as broken 

 panes and destroyed hotbed sash. It 

 is reported that in the peach growing 

 countries in western Maryland fully 

 half the fruit buds in the orchards are 

 frozen. 



Washington, D. C. — A heavy wind 

 storm which visited Washington last 

 week did a great deal of damage. At 

 Garrett Park, Md., it ruined a house of 

 violets that had been brought to per- 

 fection by David Bissett for the Easter 

 trade. In Anacostia, a building on the 

 grounds of Fred H. Kramer was un- 

 roofed and considerable glass broken; 

 Gude Bros., M. J. McCabe and others 

 lost glass. The wind was particularly 

 destructive in the grounds of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture where the 

 large banana house was ruined. The 

 large display window at the store of F. 

 H. Kramer, 916 F street, was blown in. 



Madison, N. J. — Among the many 

 losses in this section frpm the heavy 

 snow and ice and falling trees in the 

 "blizzard of last week, was the wreck- 

 ing of one of the greenhouses on the 

 D. Willis James estate by a falling 

 :tree. 



Short Hills, N. J.— The side-hill 

 range of greenhouses originally erect- 

 ed by Pitcher & Manda, and occupied 

 in recent years by J. J. Wilson, were 

 •crushed in and practically ruined by 

 the weight of snow on the night of 

 March 1. 



Auburn, N. Y. — A rose house belong- 

 ing to Dobbs & Son was broken down 

 with weight of snow on the night of 



■Sunday, March 1, causing heavy loss 



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