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AUGUST 14, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



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Where Everythia£ ii in MinaeapoltB.— G)nveniion tLll is in the Lowrr Left Comer of the Map. 



kloomers. They are, however, useful 

 lor a spring crop if started in Novem- 

 V'>-. The diennial varieties, lanceolata 



111 grandiflora, should be sown outside 

 June or July. These, if started in 

 keat in January, either in pots or 

 lenches, give a fine crop of long- 

 jtemmed flowers in April and May. 



Both double and single cornflowers 

 |re marketed as bachelor's buttons. 



C. W. 



CANADIANS ELECT OFTICERS. 



At the closing session of the six- 



eenth annual convention of the Cana- 



|ian Horticultural Association, held last 



^eek at Peterboro, the following offi- 



jrs were elected: 



President — H. B. Cowan, Peterboro, 

 )nt. 



First vice-president — Cfeorge Hopton, 

 Tontreal. 



Second vice-president — T. Adams, To- 

 >nto. 



Secretarj'-treasurer — Julius Luck, 

 |fll8 Queens road, Montreal. 



Executive committee — S. Jordan, 

 f^eterboro; T. Adams, Toronto, and G. 

 Douglas, Toronto. 



An invitation to hold next year's 

 lonvention at Toronto was accepted. 



LITTLE BOCK SHOWS SPEED. 



In the issue of The Review for July 



[1, thorp was published a copy of the 



phicago ordinance prohibiting the see- 



|nd use of wire work and materials of 



jpsigns once placed in a cemetery. The 



allowing Tuesday, five days later, the 



nne law was in efifect in Little Kock, 



irlc. 



Florists in many cities besides Chi- 

 cago have been interested in this sub- 

 ject and the ordinance and its accom- 

 panying article brought it again to their 

 attention in a crystallized form. P. M. 

 Palez, who is alderman of the Third 

 ward, as well as a leading florist, in Lit- 

 tle Rock, Ark., found what he had for 

 several years been looking for in the 

 ordinance reprinted in The Review. His 

 copy reached him Monday, August 4, 

 and he was ready to act. That night 

 he introduced a duplicate of the Chi- 

 cago law into the council; it passed and 

 was in efifect next day. This surely is 

 a record for quick legislative action. 

 But, of course, the entire florists' trade 

 was back of it. 



MOLES IN CUCUMBER BEDS. 



I noted the following inquiry from 

 H. J. P., in a recent issue of The Re- 

 view: "Moles are damaging my cu- 

 cumber crop. There is not a bed in the 

 houses which they have not undermined 

 in every direction. In winter they 

 brought destruction to the lettuce crop, 

 and nothing that I could do would stop 

 them. Traps did not do the work. 

 Flooding the beds was witliout effect. 

 Does anybody know how to make them 

 leave the greenhouses? Your advice 

 will be highly appreciated." 



In reply to H. J. P., I would suggest 

 the following method, which I have 

 found to be effective: Dig some holes 

 in the beds, each hole deep enough to 

 allow a pail of water to be placed in it. 

 The pails must be about half filled with 

 water and placed with their rims a lit- 

 tle below the surface. Dig about three 



or four holes in each bed. The moles 

 will drop into the water and will drown. 



Paul Dieball. 



CUCUMBERS ON SOLID BEDS. 



I propose to devote two houses to 

 the growing of White Spine cucum- 

 bers for the winter market. These two 

 houses have been used for tomatoes, 

 which have been grown on benches 

 in one house and on solid beds in the 

 other house. I have not found bot- 

 tom heat necessary, the houses being 

 well supplied with returns under the 

 side plates. I shall be glad to have 

 your advice as to whether it will do 

 to grow these cucumbers on solid beds 

 on the ground and whether it is neces- 

 sary to put in further floor piping. In 

 this part of Ontario we rarely get 

 severe frost before January; during 

 January and February the temperature 

 may occasionally fall to 10 degrees 

 below zero. We have found it quite 

 easy to keep a temperature of 70 de- 

 grees without using the pipes under 

 the benches, which are laid in one 

 house. If we can succeed without the 

 necessity of putting in benches it will 

 be a great convenience. R. N. W. 



There is no need to construct benches 

 for the cucumbers. Of course, on 

 raised benches they would probably 

 yield somewhat better in midwinter, 

 but few growers on a large scale plant 

 in any other way than on the ground. 

 If you can maintain a winter mini- 

 mum of 65 degrees in zero weather, it 

 will suffice for the cucumbers. 



C. W. 



