Mat 28, 1914. 



The Rorists^ Review 



17 



Funeral Spray of Rosette drnations Shown at a Recent Exhibition at the University o( Illinois* 



growing here would be doomed. The 

 mole crickets even destroy our lawns 

 and are about to ruin our roses. 



M. F. C. 



The mole "cricket, which is at times 

 quite severe in your part of Florida, is 

 the same species which occurs in Porto 

 Rico. It is probable that some kindly- 

 intentioned introducer of plants unwit- 

 tingly brought this pest over from Por- 

 to, Rico. In recent years it has occurred 

 in a number of other places in the state. 

 Sometimes it becomes quite severe and 

 in other years is less destructive. Some 

 of the places in which it occurs are so 

 badly infested that it becomes imprac- 

 ticable to grow tomato plants or truck 

 of that kind without making special 

 preparation to circumvent the pest. 



The use of poison, such as poisoned 

 bait, gives some relief, but is not suffi- 

 ciently effective to warrant general 

 recommendation. 



For seed beds a more or less effective 

 method is to make a tight board frame 

 around the seed bed, using 12-inch or 

 14-inch boards and being sure there are 

 no cracks through which the pest can 

 crawl. During the early fall the young 

 mole crickets are wingless and conse- 

 quently have to depend on crawling 

 through the burrows for their means of 

 moving about. After a frame of this 

 kind has been made and sunk deep 

 enough into the soil to prevent their 

 burrowing under, you are fairly pro- 

 tected from the new ones coming in 

 from the outside. The area inside the 

 frame can then be sterilized by gaso- 

 line, carbon bisulphide or formaldehyde. 



Such a frame, of course, will not keep 

 out the mature insects, which are 

 winged and can fly a considerable dis- 

 tance. These, however, are not so de- 

 structive, except that they reinfest the 

 piece of land after it has been cleared 

 of them. 



For a rather full discussion of this in- 

 sect, write to the director of the Porto 

 Rico Experiment Station, at Mayaguez, 

 Porto Rico, for a bulletin on this sub- 

 ject. P. H. Rolfs. 



ABBOB FOB OBCHESTBA. 



For the Moose celebration recently 

 held in his town, J. T. Broadley, of 

 Medford, Ore., was given the order for 

 an arbor in which the orchestra was to 



be seated. The arbor which he con- 

 structed and decorated, shown in the 

 accompanying illustration, was twelve 

 feet in diameter and seated an orches- 

 tra of nine. It was, Mr. Bradley says, a 

 great attraction at the celebration. 



FUNEEAL BUNCH OF OABNATIONS. 



A funeral bunch that is exceedingly 

 handsome in effect aqd at the same time 

 of simple arrangement is shown in the 

 illustration on this page. It is entirely 

 made up of Rosette carnations and was 

 one of the pieces shown recently at the 

 exhibit of the work of students of the 

 class of floral decoration at the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Urbana. 



DEPTH OF FOUNDATIONS. 



We contemplate replacing the wooden 

 end walls of our greenhouses with con- 

 crete this summer and want to know 

 how deep the foundations should be. 

 Our houses are small, 18x57, and run 

 north and south. We shall us6 hollow 



concrete blocks; will that necessitate an 

 inner wall in this Iowa climate! The 

 houses are low, ten feet to the ridge. 

 P. G. 



If the soil is firm and well drained, 

 there is, as a rule, no necessity for ex- 

 cavating more than eighteen inches be- 

 low the surface. For a footing course 

 dig a trench twelve inches wide and 

 eighteen inches deep, below where the 

 wall is to be constructed, and fill it with 

 concrete made by mixing one part of 

 cement, two parts of sharp sand and 

 four parts of coarse gravel or broken 

 stone. After thoroughly mixing the 

 concrete, add enough water to moisten 

 it. After spreading it in the trench, 

 make sure that it is thoroughly tamped. 

 Care should be taken to have the top of 

 the grout just far enough below the 

 plate to take in a given number of rows 

 of the concrete blocks. The grade out- 

 side should be such that the water will 

 run away from the wall. As a rule, no 

 lining is required for the blocks. 



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Bower for Orchestra at Moose Celebration at Medford^ Ore. 



