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NOVEiMBEH 9, 1916. 



The Florists' Rc^^ew 



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as had been satisfactorily done in other 

 years. In the aggregate it meant many 

 hundreds of dollars. 



And Fischer's customers were only a 

 few of the total number interested, as 

 the conditions must be the same with 

 other German houses having customers 

 here. 



Most of the remittances were in the 

 form of bank paper or postoffice money 

 orders. 



The Review Starts Investigation. 



No doubt in the course of time it will 

 be possible for those who purchased 

 funds payable in Germany to secure the 

 repayment of sums the paper represent- 

 ing which has been destroyed, but to 

 expedite the matter The Review made 

 inquiry of the U. S. Department of 

 State to ascertain what disposition the 

 British government is making of Amer- 

 ican mails for Germany taken off the 

 Dutch and Danish steamers, more par- 

 ticularly as to what the British do with 

 enclosures representing money. It was 

 explained that this trade is interested 

 in a large number of comparatively 

 small sums which have been detained 

 and j)erliaps destroyed. Few, if any, 

 are of sulKcient size to justify legal ex- 

 pense for their recoA'ery. 



State Department Will Help. 



The government of the United States 

 stands ready to assist any who will sup- 

 ply sufficiently complete and accurate 

 (lata to make it possible to trace in- 

 dividual remittances. In a letter to 

 The Review Alvey A. Adee, Second As- 

 sistant Secretary of State, makes its 

 offer as follows: 



DEPAUTMENT OF STATE 

 WA.SHINGTON 



October 30, 1016. 

 Florists' Piiblishiiijr Company, 

 ChicflKo, Illinoih. 

 Oontloiiicn: The Dopartment has received your 

 letter of the 12th instant in which you ask to be 

 advised as to what disposttion the Kritish (Jov- 

 ernnient is ninkinK of the (iernian mail it tultes 

 off neutral st"i\mers, more particnlurly, what 

 heconii's of the remittances contained in this 

 mail. 



In reply you are informed tliat if you have in 

 mind a particular case in which you are inter- 

 ested and will furnish the Department with a 

 complete statement of all tlie facts In con- 

 nection therewith, the Department will be glad 

 to consider the matter and to advise you as to 

 wliether, in its opinion, it can be of any assist- 

 ance to you. 



I am, Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



For the Secretary of State: 



Alvey A. Adee, 

 «41. 711/1119 Second Assistant Secretary. 



The representatives of the United 

 States in England will ask to be in- 

 formed regarding remittances that can 

 be shown to have been forwarded by 

 steamers from which the mails were 

 taken by the British. 



How to Proceed. 



Each reader who would like to have 

 his loss investigated by the government 

 should write the Department of State 

 enclosing a copy of the order sent to 

 (Jermany, with full information as to 

 the character of the remittance, includ- 

 ing date and number of the draft or 

 money order as well as the amount. 

 Also, it will be well to ask the post- 

 master how a letter posted on a given 

 date was forwarded; the postoffice rec- 

 ords will in most cases make it possible 

 to determine on what steamer the letter 

 traveled. 



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E. J. KYLE. 



IF there is anything in physiognomy the florists of the great southwest will not be 

 disappointed in their reliance upon E. J. Kyle for the solution of the cultural 

 problems peculiar to their section ; he of the rugged features is dean of the School 

 of Agriculture and professor of horticulture at the Texas A. & M. College, and it 

 is at College Station the Texas State Florists' Association hopes»soon to have in 

 full oi)eration a range of greenhouses fcr floricultural experimentation similar to 

 the one at Urbana, 111. Professor Kyle is an active friend of the florists of his 

 state, is thoroughly conversant with their troubles and in sympathy with their aims. 

 He has been and will continue to be of much assistance to the growers of the larges^ 

 state in the Union. 



plants in a greenhouse ,' Do you advise 

 its use for privet, conifers, lawns and 

 southern field crops? T. T. G.— Ga. 



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PACKING HOUSE TANKAGE. 



Please advise me as to the fertiliz- 

 ing value of packing house tankage. 

 How much of it should be used for 



Packing^Jbiouse tankage varies wide- 

 ly in composuion, the nitrogen A'arying 

 from four to ^x per cent and the i)hos- 

 phoric acid from nine to seventeen per 

 cent, a high percentage of one usually 

 being associated with a low percent- 

 age of the other. 



The availability of the fertilizing 

 elements varies with the materials from 

 which the fertilizer has been prepared. 

 The nitrogen is usually considerably 

 slower in becoming available than that 

 of dried blood, while the phos])horic 

 acid is about as available as that in 

 bone of the same degree of fineness. 



The quantity to be applied depends 

 upon the condition and character of 

 the soil, but two pounds per hundred 

 square feet of bench space, five inches 

 deep — four pounds per hundred cubic 

 f«et of soil — should make a satisfactory 

 application. Top-dressings of the ferti- 

 lizer during vigorous plant growth may 

 be added, if the plants show need of 

 nitrogenous fertilizer. 



One-half to three tons per acre, or 

 one pound per four square yards, i;. 

 considered satisfactory as an applica- 

 tion to lawns and for shrubs and trees, 

 with one-half pound per square yard 

 worked into the soil about shrubs and 

 trees. I am unable to advise quanti- 

 ties for field crops. F. W. M. 



SHOULD DISBUD CANDYTUFT. 



Will you please tell me whether or 

 not giant pyramid candytuft should 

 be pinched back after the first buds ap- 

 pear.' Our plants are about six inches 

 high and are starting to bud. Also, 

 should they be disbudded in order to 

 have large spikes? R. B. — Wis. 



It is not advisable to pinch back 

 candytuft, but where fancy spikes are 

 desired it is a good policy to do some 

 disbudding. C. W. 



Frankfort, Ky.— Lloyd H. Wilkinson, 

 manager of the Park Floral Co., recently 

 broke his arm in a fall over the high 

 threshold of a greenhouse entrance. 



