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The Florists^ Review 



JUNB 1. 1922 



sists of Paul A. Eigo, chairman; A. L. 

 Miller and Clifford Lowther. An itin- 

 erary of the trip has been issued by 

 the club, showing illustrations of points 

 of interest on the way and at Kansas 

 City. Following is the complete itin- 

 erary: 



SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 192li. 



By Lackawanna. 



L«ave New York 2 p.m. 



I^eave Hoboken 2:20 p. m. 



Leave Newark 2:;i2 p. m. 



Dinner on train. 



MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922. 



By New York, Cliicago & St. Louis U. R. 

 Leave Bnftalo 2:20 p. ra. 



I.«ave Cleveland 7:50 a. m. 



Arrive Chicago 4:50 p. m. 



MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922. 

 By Atchison. Topeka & Santa F6 Railroad. 

 Leave Cliicago 8 p. m. 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922. 



Arrive Kansas City 8:45 p. m. 



FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922. 

 By Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. 



Leave Kansas City 2:30 p. m. 



Arrive St. Paul 7:30 a. m. 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922. 



By Northern Pacific R. R. 



Leave St. I'aul 2 p.m. 



Arrive Dulntli 0:45 p. m. 



Dinner at Hotel Spalding. 



GREAT LAKES TRIP. 



Aug. 19, Lv. Duluth 8:30 p. m. 



Aug. 20, Ar. Houghton •. 9:30 a.m. 



Aug. 20, Lv. Houghton 10:30 a.m. 



Aug. 21, Ar. Sault Ste. Marie *. 4 a.m. 



Aug. 21, Lv. Sault Ste. Marie 6 a.m. 



Aug. 21, Ar. Mackinac Island Up. m. 



Aug. 21, Lv. Mackinac Island 2 n. m. 



Aug. 22, Ar. Detroit 11:30 am. 



Aug. 22, Lv. Detroit 12:30 noon 



Aug. 22, Ar. Cleveland 9 p.m. 



Aug. 22, Lv. Cleveland 10 p. m. 



Aug. 23, Ar. Buffalo 10:30 a. m. 



Aug. 23, Lv. Niagara Falls 6 p.m. 



Aug. 23, Ar. Buffalo 7 p.m. 



Aug. 23, Lv. Buffalo 8 p. m. 



Aug. 24, Ar. Hoboken 6:42 a.m. 



Breakfast in restaurant, Lackawanna terminal. 



HOLLANDERS' CONGBESS. 



The Netherlands Horticultural and 

 Botanic Society (Nederlandsche Maat- 

 Bchappy voor Tuinbouw en Plantkunde) 

 has decided to hold an international 

 horticultural congress at Amsterdam on 

 the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, 

 September 27, 1923. Papers will be 



read on various subjects of scientific 

 research, practical breeding, horticul- 

 tural education and landscape architec- 

 ture. Trips are planned to the most 

 important centers of horticulture in 

 Holland. On the same days the Am- 

 sterdam section of the society intends 

 to organize a great horticultural exhi- 

 bition. Further information will be 

 given later. This announcement is is- 

 sued for the organizing committee by 

 G. F. Van Tets, president, and Dr. M. J. 

 Sirks, secretary, Bergweg 55, Wagenin- 

 gen, Holland. 



OPIUM POPPY. 



Opium poppy, which has been culti- 

 vated in Egypt from an early date, 

 is grown for the narcotic alkaloid opium 

 which it contains. The locality most 

 favorable to its growth is Kena prov- 

 ince, seventy-five per cent of which is 

 under opium poppy. 



Prior to 1914, considerable opium was 

 imported, mostly from Smyrna, but its 

 quality is inferior to the Egyptian va- 

 riety. With the outbreak of the war 

 importations ceased and the demand for 

 Egyptian opium increased. In 1918, 

 however, the government issued a decree 

 prohibiting its cultivation in order to 

 increase the area under cereals. This 

 caused the price of opium to advance 

 tremendously. It is said to have reached 

 $90 per pound in the province of Kena 

 during the summer of 1920. 



Harvesting of opium takes place about 

 the middle of March, Fresh opium is 

 sold to merchants at the rate of fourteen 

 Egyptian ounces to the rottle (rottle 

 equals twelve English ounces). The 

 merchants shape it into round disks, 

 each weighing from two to three drams. 

 These disks are brushed with the white 

 of an egg to present a better appearance. 

 Dry, pure opium is black-red, resembling 

 cooked coffee. On breaking it shows a 

 soft, compact fracture. It is often adul- 

 terated with lentil flour or mixed with 

 "mor higasi," a gum from Hedjaz. 



Cooked and ground helbeh or coffee and 

 the epidermis of the pericarp are other 

 adulterations used, but these adultera- 

 tions can be detected. Pure opium 

 burns without leaving a residue and 

 contains not less than ten per cent of 

 morphine — sometimes as much as twelve 

 per cent. Oil extracted from the seed 

 (fifty to sixty per cent) is used in paint- 

 ing^. 



The Egyptian government controls the 

 cultivation of opium, since it was being 

 sold for native consumption in consider- 

 able quantities and with bad effect. It 

 is possible that the crop will be greatly 

 limited during the present year. 



FUCHSIA LEAVES FALLING. 



What is the matter with the fuchsia 

 leaves which we have sentf The plants 

 were doing finely and all of a sudden the 

 leaves appeared as though they were 

 burned. The plants were in 2%-inch 

 pots and we repotted them in 4-inch pots 

 about two weeks ago, using a 4-inch pot- 

 ful of bone meal to a bushel of soil. 



F. & F.— Wis. 



It is quite probable that there is 

 some escaping gas from city mains leak- 

 ing into the greenhouse. I understand 

 from one of your notes that this main 

 runs close to your greenhouse and I am 

 aware of several cases where gas has 

 caused great damage to greenhouse 

 plants. Usually, however, the damage is 

 most noticeable in winter, when green- 

 houses are ventilated the least. With a 

 little top ventilation left on your green- 

 houses, damage from whatever source 

 should be eliminated. Other plants than 

 fuchsias should show injury if growing 

 in the same house. What varieties are 

 you growing other than fuchsias, and 

 how are they affected f If fuchsias only 

 show damage, I should be inclined to 

 think that most probably the compost 

 in which the fuchsias were potted was 

 too strong. C. W. 



This June Bride Carried a Bouquet of Valley, While Her Bridesmaids Bore Roses. 



