jANUAiix 25. 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



tain Quarantine Districts for Plant Diseases and 

 Insect Pests; to Permit and Regulate the Move- 

 ment of Fruit, Plants and VeKetablcs therefrom, 

 and for other purposes; Approved August 20, 

 1012, be, hnd the same is hereby, amended so as 

 to read as follows: 



Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture is 

 authorized and directed to quarantine any State, 

 Territory, or District of the United States or 

 any portion thereof, when he shall determine 

 THAT SUCH QUARANTINE IS NECESSARY 

 TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF a dangerous 

 plant disease or insect infestation, new to or not 

 theretofore widely prevalent or distributed with- 

 in and throughout the United States; and the 

 Secretary of Agriculture is directed to give no- 

 tice of the establishment of such quarantine to 

 common carriers doing business In or through 

 such quarantined area, and shall publish in such 

 newspapers in the quarantined area as he shall 

 select notice of the establishment of quarantine. 

 That no person shall ship or offer for shipment 

 to any common carrier, nor shall any common 

 carrier receive transportation or transport, 

 nor shall any person carry or transport from any 

 quarantined State or Territory or District of the 

 United States, or from any quarantined portion 

 thereof, into or through any other State or Ter- 

 ritory or District, any class of nursery stock or 

 any other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, 

 roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products, OK 

 ANY CLASS OF STONE OR QUARRY PROD- 

 UCTS, OR ANY ARTICLE OF ANY CHARAC- 

 TER WHATSOEVER, CAPABLE OF CARRY- 

 ING ANY DANGEROUS PLANT DISEASE OR 

 INSECT INFESTATION, specified in the notice 

 of quarantine except as hereinafter provided. That 

 it shall t>e unlawful to move or allow to l>e 

 moved any class of nursery stock or any other 

 class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, 

 seeds, or other plant products, OR ANY CLASS 

 OF STONE OR QUARRY PRODUCTS, OR ANY 

 OTHER ARTICLE OF ANY CHARACTER 

 WHATSOEVER, CAPABLE OF CARRYING 

 ANY DANGEROUS PLANT DISEASE OR IN- 

 SECT INFESTATION, specified in the notice of 

 quarantine hereinbefore provided, and regardless 

 of the use for which the same is intended, from 

 any quarantined State or Territory or District 

 of the United States, or quarantined portion 

 thereof, into or through any other State or Ter- 

 ritory or District, in manner or method or under 

 conditions other than those prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. That it shall be the 

 <lHty of the Secretary of Agriculture, WHEN 

 THE PUBLIC INTERESTS WILL PERMIT, to 

 make and promulgate rules and regulations 

 which shall permit and govern the inspection, 

 disinfection, certification, and method and man- 

 ner of delivery and shipment of a class of nurs- 

 <'ry stock or of other class of plants, fruits, 

 vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant 

 products, OR ANY CLASS OF STONE OR 

 <JIIARRY PRODUCTS, OR ANY ARTICLE OF 

 ANY CHARACTER WHATSOEVER, CAPABLE 

 OF CARRYING ANY DANGEROUS PLANT 

 DISEASE OR INSECT INFESTATION, specified 

 in the notice of quarantine hereinbefore provided, 

 and regardless of the use for which the same is 

 intended, from a quarantined State or Territory 

 or District of the United States, or quarantined 

 IK)rtion thereof, into or through nnv other State 

 or Territory or District: and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall give notice of such rules and 

 regulations as hereinbefore provided in this sec- 

 tion for the notice of the establishment of quar- 

 antine: Provided, That before the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall promulgate his determination 

 that it is necessary to quarantine any State, 

 Territory, or District of the United States, or 

 lX)rtion thereof, under the authority given in this 

 section, he shall, after the notice to interested 

 parties, give a public hearing under such rules 

 jind regulations as he shall prescribe, at which 

 •jioaring any interested party may appear and be 

 iieard, either in person or by attorney. 



The Federal Horticultural Board, 

 through its chairman, C. E. Marlatt, has 

 started an agitation for the complete 

 exclusion of seedling and other plant 

 imports "at least for a time," as Mr. 

 Marlatt told the American Forestry 

 Association at its meeting last week. 



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A "MIXTURE" FOR FUMIGATING. 



I have purchased about twelve pounds 

 of a fumigant, the label on which reads 

 -T-s follows: "Cvanide-Chloride-Car- 

 bonate Mixture— Fused. Eleven, and 

 one-fifth to twelve per cent cyanogen. 

 Equivalent to twenty-eight to thirty 

 per cent potassium cyanide. Sodium 

 <'yanide, twenty-one to twenty-three per 

 <'ent. Inert ingredients, seventy-seven 

 to seventy-nine per cent." 



I have been using for fumigating my 

 greenhouse seven ounces of potassium 

 vyanide, ninety-eight to ninety-nine per 

 <"ent pure, and fourteen ounces of sul- 

 I'hunc acid, in twenty-eight ounces of 

 water. Can you tell me what quantity 

 «t the cyanide-chloride-carbonate to use 

 '0 obtain the same result as I get from 



H. O. BRAMM. 



FROM the pungent odor of a tannery to the jdeasant fragrance of a green- 

 house—that was the transition made by H. G. Bramm, president of the Bris- 

 tol Floral Co., at Bristol, Tenn., and vice-president of the Tennessee State Florists' 

 Association for Sullivan county. Though he may not have found every phase of 

 the florists' trade as agreeable as the i^erfume of the flowers, he permitted none 

 of the objectionable features to hinder his success. He was born at Port Jervis, 

 N Y. in 1866. For some vears he was a tanner in New York city, but removed 

 to Bristol in ISO."?, continuing in the leather trade until 1908, when he purchased 

 the establishment of the I). S. Simpson Floral Co., with its 10,000 feet of glass. 

 He thus founded tlic Bristol Floral Co., which now has 30,000 feet of glass in 

 town and 10,000 feet on a lOacrc suburban tract. East and best, he has a wife 

 and two daughters. 



the ninety eight to ninetyuiue per cent 

 potassium cyanide, and can you state 

 what jiropor'tions of sulphuric acid and 

 water should be used ? 



C. J. S.— Fa. 



From tlie analysis given, it would ap- 

 pear that the "cyanidechloride-car- 

 bonate mixture" contains about twcn- 

 tv-seven per cent as much cyanogen as 

 does the ninety-eight per cent potas- 

 sium cyanide, and hence, to equal the 

 latter, 'about three and one-half times 

 as much should be used, or approximate- 

 ly twenty four ounces where seven 

 ounces of potassium cyanide are re- 

 quired. However, although it would ap- 

 pear that the cyanide-chloride-carbon- 

 ate mixture is in the form of sodium 

 cyanide, and that a portion of the in- 

 ert ingredients is in the form of sodium 

 chloride and sodium carbonate, the ex- 

 act amounts of each of these and other 

 ingredients are not stated, and whether 

 thev are such as will be likely to injure 



plants, or to lossen the eft'ect of the 

 cyanide, cannot be determined without 

 a chemical analysis or an actual trial. 

 So far as sodium cyanide is concerned, 

 it may be substituted for potassium 

 cyanide and used in the same quanti 

 ties and with the same amounts of wa- 

 ter and sulphuric acid. The present 

 price of potash makes the cost of cya- 

 nide of potassium almost jirohibitive, if. 

 in fact, it can be obtained at all, and 

 recourse must be had to sodium cy- 

 anide. 



I would suggest that a sample of the 

 mixture be sent for analysis to the 

 State Agricultural College, State Col- 

 lege, Pa. The chemists there will be 

 able to say whether it is safe to use 

 it for fumigating greenhouses, and they 

 can state the amount that will be re- 

 quired. T. 



Belvidere, 111.— Allen Lyon, of Lyon 

 & Anderson, is recuperating from an 

 operation for appendixiitis. 



