STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. \ ' //-l^T 





European experience, because much of what is learned to^e/Wuld 0'j\ ^* 

 prove worse than useless here. The English or German flomi^^ z> ^ ^ 

 here to contend with unfamiliar conditions of climate and a mann< 

 of doing business that is novel to him. Again he has been trained 

 to more deliberate methods of working, and when I told the story a 

 few 3^ears ago of a workman who had potted 10,000 cuttings in two 

 inch pots in ten consecutive hours, it was stigmatized in nearly 

 every horticultural magazine in P^urope as a piece of American brag- 

 ging. As a matter of fact this same workman, two years later, 

 potted 11,500 plants in ten hours, and since then several other 

 workmen have potted plants at the rate of a thousand "^per hour all 

 day long. 



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But beneath these flitting fancies is the substantial and unchang- 

 ing love of flowers that seems to be an original instinct in man, and^ 

 one that grows in strength with growing refinement. Fashion may 

 now and again condemn one flower or another, but the fashion of 

 neglecting flowers altogether will never prevail, and we may safely 

 look forward in the expectation of an ever increasing interest and 

 demand, steady improvement in methods of cultivation, and to new 

 and attractive developments in form, color and fragrance. — Peter 

 Heyiderson. in Garden and Forest. 



SPRAYING WITH ARSENICAL POISONS. 

 As to the use of Paris green, it is only twent3-two per cent 

 arsenic ; it is insoluble in water and soon sinks to the bottom. 

 Arsenic is all that does any good. As it is the arsenic that is effec- 

 tive, what is the use of using anything else than arsenic, which costs 

 only a few cents per pound. In quantities it can be bought for six, 

 five, even three cents per pound. In California they use one pound 

 to four hundred gallons of water. They say there is no advantage 

 in a strong solution. A week solution does not injure the foliage of 

 the trees. Even one-half pound of the white arsenic to four hun- 

 dred gallons of water would be effective. Let us make a perfect 

 solution. Alkali will make arsenic completely soluble in water. 

 Use one pound can of concentrated lye to four hundred gallons of 

 water. One ounce of arsenic to a fift}^ gallon barrel of water — the 

 expense is really nothing. Dissolve the lye in the water first. 

 There is no chemical change in the arsenic. Dissolve the lye in cold> 



