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HORTICULTURE 



April 2S. 1914 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 



New Appointments In the Department 



of Floriculture. 



At a recent meeting of the Agricul- 

 tural Council of Cornell University 

 two appointments to the staff In the 

 Department of Floriculture were made. 

 These were the appointment of Etevld 

 Lumsden of the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, as assistant pro- 

 fessor of floriculture, and Clark L. 

 Thayer of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College as assistant in investi- 

 gation. Mr. Lumsden comes to the 

 University splendidly fitted for the 

 work. He is a man of wide experience, 

 of pleasing personality and speaks 

 easily and clearly. He is a graduate 

 ot the Sleaford Collegiate School of 

 London, England, and also of the 

 Veitchian School of Horticulture 

 where he specialized in floriculture. 

 For a number of years he was em- 

 ployed in glass houses on private es- 

 tates in England, and for two years be- 

 fore coming to America was in charge 

 of the glass-house department for 

 growing flowers and fruits and also in 

 charge of the room and table decora- 

 tions of the Duke of Westminster, 

 from whom he holds a testimonial of 

 high efliciency. Since coming to this 

 country nineteen years ago, Mr. Lums- 

 den has spent thirteen years in practi- 

 cal work on commercial places and six 

 years at the New Hampshire Agricul- 

 tural College where he has been in 

 charge of the work in floriculture. He 

 has been very active in grange and 

 extension work in New Hampshire, 

 and for several years has had the man- 

 agement of the horticultural exhibit at 

 the state fair. 



Mr. Lumsden comes to the Univer- 

 sity highly recommended for his strong 

 moral character, his efliciency as a 

 grower of cut flowers and potted 

 plants, also as a designer. President 

 Fairchild of the New Hampshire Ag- 

 ricultural College, Director Kendall of 

 the Experiment Station, W. N. Craig, 

 secretary of the Boston Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club; Wilfrid Wheeler, sec- 

 retary of agriculture of Massachu- 

 setts; Peter Fisher, W. H. Elliott, 

 Thomas F. Galvin and the W. W. Ed- 

 gar Company are among the many who 

 have given Mr. Lumsden strong recom- 

 mendations for the position at Cornell. 

 Mr. Lumsden is a member of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society of London 

 and of many American horticultural 

 societies. His work at Cornell will 

 consist mainly of teaching, extension 

 lecturing, and the greenhouses will be 

 under his direct supervision. 



Mr. Thayer is a native of Enfield, 

 Mass., and a graduate of 'the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College in the class 

 of 1913. During the past year he has 

 been doing graduate work at the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College and 

 has assisted in teaching. The short 

 courses during the past winter were 

 under his direct supervision. Mr. 

 Thayer will study for an advanced de- 

 gree at Cornell and assist in investiga- 

 tional work. 



The staff of the Department of Flor- 

 iculture at Cornell is now the largest 

 of any in the United States. It con- 

 sists of the following: 



Professor Edward A. White, head of the 

 department; Dr. Alvin C. Beat, professor of 

 Investigation ; David Lumsden, assistant 



professor; Roland H. Patch, Instructor; 

 Alfred C. Hottes, instructor In Investiga- 

 tion; Miss Lua A. Minns, instructor; Clark 

 L. Thayer, as.sistant in Investigation ; Miss 

 Julia Z. Kelly, secretary and curator; 

 Arthur B. Cornelius, gardener; David Mur- 

 ray, assistant gardener. 



LEAF-TYERS AND LEAF-MINERS. 



Parker Thayer Barnes, of the Penn- 

 sylvania State Department of Horti- 

 culture writes that he has found con- 

 siderable damage in two establish- 

 ments in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, 

 from a small gray moth known as 

 the greenhouse leaf-tyer. It seems to 

 be most fond of chrysanthemums, but 

 Infests other stock. The larvae, a 

 green worm about one-half an inch 

 long feeds on the under side of the 

 leaf, eating up through to the skin or 

 epidermis of the leaf, but not through 

 it. Most of these feeding places are 

 about three-eighth of an inch long and 

 half as wide. 



Mr. Barnes says; "I understand that 

 the pest is generally distributed 

 among growers ot chrysanthemums. 

 One place complained very bitterly be- 

 cause it was introduced from a big 

 chrysanthemum specialist. 



"The leaf-tyer is very easily held in 

 check or entirely destroyed by spray- 

 ing Infested plants with arsenate of 

 lead — one ounce of the paste to a gal- 

 lon ot water. If the dry arsenate of 

 lead is used, one-half that quantity is 

 sufficient. Personally, 1 prefer to use 

 the dry, or powdered form of the 

 poison. When spraying, hit the under 

 sides of the leaves. It is of no use on 

 the upper sides of the leaves because 

 the larvae do not feed there. 



"Apparently a new pest has shown 

 up to bother the Indian azaleas. One 

 large importation last fall contained 

 some small white cocoons. Samples 

 submitted to the office did not bring 

 a reply and I have since found that 

 they proved to be leaf miners, and 

 Prof. Chittenden has been unable as 

 yet to locate just what the little beg- 

 gar is. But it has seriously damaged 

 the looks of the azaleas by making 

 small brown spots in the leaves. I 

 would advise anyone importing 

 azaleas this fall to carefully examine 

 the plants and if these little white 

 cocoons are present, either pick off 

 leaves having them and destroy them, 

 or fumigate the plants with hydrocy- 

 anic acid gas." 



Dan bury, Conn. — Fire caused from 

 au overheated chimney caused dam- 

 ages of $1,500 to the office building 

 and boiler room of E. E. Mathewaon's 

 greenhouse on North street April 14. 



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