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It is probable that if the company were 

 to be wound up under the jurisdiction 

 of a court, the court would direct that 

 such suits be brought, if the legal stand- 

 ing of the organization will permit, as 

 a matter of equity for the members who 

 have paid the -assessments. It may be 

 that some of the members will consider 

 that it is not a misfortune to have the 

 company relieve them of such a liability. 



TEXAS FLORISTS TO MEET. 



President W. J. Parker, of the Texas 

 State Florists ' Association, has called a 

 meeting of the association to be held in 

 Austia, Tex., July 9 and 10. The Austin 

 florists have already begun preparations 

 to entertain the visiting florists and an 

 interesting meeting is expected. 



The Texas florists have not held a 

 regular meeting for two years, on ac- 

 count of conditions brought about by 

 the war, and the July meeting is ex- 

 pected to put things in order and get the 

 association back into working trim. 

 Provision will be made to give all the 

 space necessary to those who wish to 

 make trade exhibits at the convention 

 and just as many as can arrange to 

 bring or send exhibits of stock, supplies, 

 building material, or anything else used 

 by florists, are invited and urged to do 

 so. Space will be furnished free to ex- 

 hibitors. The florists of the state and 

 adjoining states will be urged to come 

 to the convention to, place their orders 

 for supplies for next season, so this 

 meeting is going to be an excellent op- 

 portunity for the trade to get in touch 

 with the florists of the southwest. 



The exhibition hall will adjoin the 

 assembly hall and ample time will be 

 given to all visitors to examine the 

 exhibits and place their orders with 

 those in charge. All who intend to make 

 exhibits are requested to write at once 

 to Secretary Louis J. Tackett, Austin, 

 Tex., so that choice space may be re- 

 served. 



This convention is expected to be one 

 of the largest meetings of florists ever 

 held in the southwest and no one can 

 afford to miss it. Do not wait for the 

 secretary to write you to make an ex- 

 hibit, for if you do, you may be over- 

 looked. Write him at once that you will 

 be on hand with a display and a sharp 

 pencil, and be ready to book orders. 



FOB OUTWOSMS AND SOWBUGffl. 



Judging from the numerous inquiries 

 on the subject that reach the office of 

 The Review, many florists have difficulty 

 in subduing those common but unwel- 

 come greenhouse tenants, cutworms and 

 sowbugs. The exterminator generally 

 recommended for both these pests is 

 what is known as the bran mash, the 

 formula for which is given by Bailey 

 as follows: "White arsenic, one-half 

 pound, or Paris green, one pound; bran, 

 fifty pounds. Mix thoroughly and then 

 add enough water to make a wet mash. 

 Sugar or molasses may be added, but is 

 unnecessary. * * 



According to some growers, however, 

 many of these worms and bugs, being 

 fastidious in thei]X^ppetites as well as 

 gluttonous, refuse to be allured by the 

 bran concoction as long as plenty of 

 young, succulent plant growths are avail- 

 able. One florist, at least, thinks he has 

 discovered just what cereals the two 

 kinds of pests prefer. He prescribes 

 corn meal for cutworms and rye for sow- 



Montgomerv's New Red Rose, Crusader. 



bugs. These are his directions for the 

 destruction of the cutworms: "Use corn 

 meal; mix it with Paris green, just 

 enough to color; at nightfall scatter 

 among the infested plants; don't water 

 for six or eight hours before or after 

 and you will have no further trouble 

 from cutworms." 



For the sowbugs, otherwise called 

 wood lice, he uses two parts jye flour, 

 two parts sugar — he evidently believes 

 that the sowbugs have a sweet tooth — 

 and one part Paris green, preparing only 

 enough of the repast for immediate re- 

 quirements, as it deteriorates if it stands 

 any length of time. He scatters the 

 mixture along the top of the edge-board 

 of the bench in the evening, being care- 

 ful to see that the board is dry, else the 

 mixture is liable to become lumpy and 

 unpalatable to even the most voracious 

 of sowbugs. 



Another grower describes a process by 

 which he annihilated an army of sow- 

 bugs after vainly trying the ordinary 

 remedies. "I mashed a few potatoes," 

 he says, "and rubbed the pulp on the 

 surfaces of boards. The boards, which 

 were about a foot in width and four feet 

 in length, I placed on the ground under 

 the benches, leaving a space between 

 the boards and ground of about the 

 "thickness of two pot labels. In a re- 

 markably short time the sowbugs col- 



lected by thousands on the under side 

 of the boards. I then took a sprinkling 

 can filled with boiling water and fitted 

 with a fine rose or cap. I tipped over 

 the boards, one at a time, and turned 

 the hot water on the pests. In this way 

 I killed multitudes of them, and within 

 a week saw the end of them. A few of 

 the bugs collected on the inner boards 

 of the back benches. These I extermi- 

 nated by cutting slits between the soil 

 and the boards with a knife, and then 

 pouring in the boiling water, after re- 

 moving the rose from the can." 



RETURNING THE MONEY. 



If there is any one thing more than 

 another which wearies the average 

 grower, it is to write letters in which he 

 returns money to would-be customers; 

 it isn't the work that brings fatigue, 

 but the thought of sending home money 

 already in hand. But a large number 

 of users of Classified ads in The Review 

 have had to send back many checks thi» 

 season. Like this: 



Please discontinue my sweet potato plant ad, 

 I have had a deluge of orders and am remaillne 

 many checks, as I could not keep half.— C. W. P. 

 Erdman, Bushy, Va., May 9, 1919. 



When jmx hear a man complain of the 

 cost of advertising you can be pretty 

 certain he spends a good bit of money 

 elsewhere than in The Review. 



