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The Florists^ Review 



August 14, 11)11*. 



The Dodge-Smith Co., Jersey City, 

 N. J., has incorporated with a capitaliza- 

 tion of $100,000. 



The Howe-Underhill Co. has been in- 

 ^corporated at Pennington, N. J., with a 

 capital stock of $150,000. 



The official roster of the Wm. H, Moon 

 Co., Morrisville, Pa., is : President, James 

 M. Moon; vice-president, Henry W. Com- 

 fort; secretary, J. Edward Moon; treas- 

 urer, Henry T. Moon. 



The annual convention of the Southern 

 Nurserymen's Association will be held 

 at Atlanta, Ga., August 20 and 21. Head- 

 quarters will be at the Piedmont hotel. 

 President H. C. Caldwell, of Atlanta, has 

 the program in charge. 



The Ruehl-Wheeler Nurseries, at San 

 Jose, Cal., have been incorporated as the 

 Ruehl-Wheeler Nursery Co., with a capi- 

 talization of $50,000. Henry Ruehl, Al- 

 mon Wheeler, F. S. Correa, J. J. Mc- 

 Clue and L. F. Simonsen are the incor- 

 porators. 



S. R. DeBoer, for nearly ten years 

 landscape architect of the city of Denver, 

 has resigned to enter private business, 

 forming the firm of DeBoer & Pesman, 

 with M. Walter Pesman. Mr. DeBoer will 

 be retained by the city of Denver in a 

 consulting capacity. 



A TEST OF ENDURANCE. 



At the convention of the Association 

 of American Nurserymen at Chicago re- 

 cently, a plant of the new hardy hybrid 

 privet, Ibolium, was shown for the first 

 time to the public. The plant exhibited, 

 a 2-year-old plant, was dug from the 

 nursery row when in a state of vigorous 

 growth, dropped with its ball of earth 

 into a box, crated up, and expressed to 

 Chicago during that hot week. This 

 was an experiment, as Ibolium had never 

 before been subjected to such a severe 

 test. With much anxiety the exhibitors 

 awaited its arrival in Chicago, after sev- 

 eral days in transit by express. The 

 plant had apparently suffered no injury, 

 as the leaves remained fresh and green. 

 It was on exhibition during the several 

 days of the convention under the trying 

 conditions of the convention hall and 

 was later recrated and expressed back 

 to its exhibitor, the Elm City Nursery 

 Co., at New Haven, Conn. 



The plant was knocking about for two 

 weeks before it reached the nursery 

 again, a rather severe test of endurance, 

 all will agree. The accompanying illus- 

 tration shows this plant of I'bolfum as 

 it was being uncrated at \|he nursery. 



From New Haven to Chicago and Return. 



still retaining practically the san^e ap- 

 pearance it had when packed up some 

 two weeks before. 



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The privet was given a certificate of 

 merit at the nurserymen's convention. 

 It is described as resembling California 

 privet to a marked degree in foliage an^l 

 growth and to be as hardy as Ibota. 



INSECT VERSUS INSECT. 



A European parasitic fly that may be 

 come of far-reaching importance in the 

 control of the gypsy moth and brown- 

 tail moth and certain other serious pests 

 of similar character is being multiplied 

 from importations of this new insect 

 enemy. A report of the work with the 

 parasite — known as Compsilura concin- 

 nata — has just been made by entomolo- 

 gists of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. 



This report shown that this parasite 

 has reduced the damage done by the 

 gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth 

 in the New England states, where they 

 were so abundant and destructive that 

 they ate the leaves off enormous areas 

 of forest and shade trees every year. 

 It has been found that Compsilura also 

 aids in the control of other insect pests. 



The white-marked tussock moth, a 

 serious pest in the New England states 

 a few years ago, has practically disap- 

 peared since Compsilura has become es- 

 tablished. The cabbage worm, still a 

 serious pest, has been lessened in some 

 sections. Celery worms are not so com- 

 mon as formerly and the fall webworm 

 is scarcely noticed in the northeastern 

 states now. 



The entomologists do not claim that 

 this parasite is the sole cause of this 

 reduction, but it has proved an impor- 



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