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Jolt 6, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



THE GEBMAN GOODS GET IN. 



In The Eeview for June 1 it was re- 

 ported that Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, had finally secured from the 

 British government a permit to bring 

 over, via Rotterdam, their Qerinan 

 goods held up since the inception of 

 the British blockade and that the Eyn- 

 dam had sailed May 27 with 1,291 cases, 

 or approximately one-third the quantity 

 covered by the permit. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the Ryndam's cargo arriving at the 

 Bayersdorfer headquarters. The ad- 

 joining building, at 1131 Arch street, 

 has been leased as means of taking in 

 the merchandise. 



FEVERFEW FOB MEMOBIAIj DAY. 



Will you please inform me what size 

 of feverfew I would have to plant in 

 a bench April 15 in order to get flow- 

 ers for cutting for Memorial day? They 

 are to be planted in a carnation house 

 in a temperature of 50 to 52 degrees 

 at night and 56 degrees in the daytime, 

 with a higher temperature on bright 

 days and full ventilation. 



R. K. S.— la. 



April 15 is entirely too late a date 

 to plant feverfew for Memorial day. 

 It ought to be in the benches in Feb- 

 ruary or, at the latest, the first week 

 in March, if you want to get much from 

 it. Plants set out as late as April 15 

 would need to be of good size, from 

 4-inch or 5-inch pots, and even theft 

 they would not give you satisfactory 

 returns. C. W. 



BID MANT7BE PILE OF FUES. 



The vast majority of house flies de- 

 velop from eggs which are laid in horse 

 manure. There are two simple ways 

 of destroying the larvae. Sprinkling 

 the manure heap with a solution pre- 

 pared by adding one-half pound of pow- 

 dered hellebore to ten gallons of water 

 will destroy, according to recent ex- 

 periments, from eighty-eight to ninety- 

 nine per cent of the larvae in the ma- 

 nure. The use of a simple maggot trap 

 will prove equally effective. At the 

 Maryland Agricultural College, it was 

 found that the trap used there de- 

 stroyed fully ninety-nine per cent of 

 all the maggots or larvae breeding in a 

 given lot of manure. 



Such a trap is simplicity itself, con- 

 sisting merely of a slatted platform 

 standing about one foot high upon a 

 concrete floor which is surrounded by 

 a rim or wall of concrete four inches 

 high. The floor slopes a little toward 

 one corner, in order to allow liquid from 

 the manure to be drained off into a 

 small cistern. Ordinarily this drain is 

 plugged with a stopper and the con- 

 crete floor filled with water to a depth 

 of one inch in the shallowest part. 

 The larvae, when about to enter the 

 pupal or resting stage, preliminary to 

 emerging as adult flies, invariably crawl 

 about in search of a suitably dry spot 

 in which to enter into pupation. In the 

 maggot trap, therefore, as soon as the 

 larvae attempt to leave the manure on 

 which they have been feeding, they fall 

 through the openings in the slatted 

 platform into the water below and are 

 drowned. Each week the drain should 

 be opened and the dead maggots washed 

 from the floor of the trap into the 

 cistern. 



Experience with maggot traps has 

 brought out the fact that these are 



Unloading the German Imports at the Bayersdorfer^ Annex. 



most effective when the manure is kept 

 compactly heaped and well moistened. 

 This is due to the laxvae 's desire to find 

 a comparatively dry place in which to 

 pupate and, consequently, they crawl 

 away from wet manure. In the second 

 place, the platform should stand not 

 less than one foot above the concrete 

 floor, in order that the floor may be 

 more easily cleaned. A third point is 

 that old manure does not attract flies 

 for breeding. A lot of manure need re- 

 main on the maggot trap but ten days 

 in order to prevent any breeding tak- 

 ing place in it. 



In cities and towns it is probable 

 that the treatment of manure with hel- 

 lebore will usually be found more ad- 



vantageous. Ten gallons of the solu- 

 tion already described, composed of one- 

 half pound of powdered hellebore to 

 ten gallons of water and allowed to 

 stand twenty-four hours, will be suflS- 

 cient for the treatment of eight bushels 

 or ten cubic feet of manure. A weaker 

 solution than this is not so effective. 

 The hellebore does not alter the com- 

 position of the manure in any way and 

 does not cause any injury to crops on 

 which the manure is placed. The cost 

 of the treatment, with hellebore selling 

 from 12 to 16 cents a pound, and in 

 large lots for 10 cents or less, is esti- 

 mated at a little over 1 cent for every 

 two bushels. 



Bochester, N. H. — E. A. Corson now 

 is well established in his new head- 

 quarters in the Jones block, on Central 

 square. 



Newport, Vt.— J. R. Farrant is mak- 

 ing arrangements to erect a large green- 

 house, to replace several that were 

 burned last March. 



Hartford, Conn. — ^The McManus Posy 

 Shop has been incorporated at $2,000 

 by Florence Hagarty, Mary McManus 

 and William McManus. 



Baldwlnsville, Mass. — Two 100-foot 

 houses have been acquired here by 

 Frank Cogswell, formerly of New Sa- 

 lem, who will grow cucumbers exclu- 

 sively. 



Barton, Vt.— John R. Farrant has 

 closed a contract for the erection of a 

 range of houses here. He is the son 

 of J. Farrant, who for many years has 

 conducted a florists' business at New- 

 port, Vt. 



Foxboro, Mass. — Twenty-seven years 

 ago M. B. Faxon sent a basket of pansy 

 plants to the White House at Washing- 

 ton and received a letter of thanks 

 from Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. Recent- 

 ly he sent another lot and a few days 

 ago was rewarded by a warm note of 

 appreciation from Mrs. Wilson. 



Union, N. H. — Frank Varney is con- 

 templating the removal of his houses 

 to a better location south of the town. 



Ne-wton Upper Falls, Mass. — Despite 

 the cold and wet spring, business in this 

 section has been good, according to 

 J. W. McNeally. The condition of 

 stock has been satisfactory, consider- 

 ing the little sunshine during the last 

 two months. 



Hollis, N. H. — Rain has been too 

 plentiful this spring for the good of 

 outdoor stock and, if the deluge does 

 not stop soon, many growers will reckon 

 a complete failure of outdoor plantings. 

 G. W. Coburn & Son report a successful 

 season in pot plants. They also are 

 growers of vegetables, principally cukes. 



Worcester, Mass. — A veritable shower 

 of verbal bouquets recently descended 

 on the heads of Harold J. Neale, the 

 municipal forester, and Frank Chase, 

 foreman of the city greenhouses, in the 

 form of a newspaper write-up exposi- 

 tory of the good work of Messrs. Neale 

 and Chase in beautifying the city. A 

 public official was quoted: "There" is at 

 least one department of the outdoor 

 work carried on by the city by which 

 the voters are actually receiving $2 for 

 every $1 invested, and that is the city's 

 greenhouse and nursery department." 



