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The Florists* Review 



Dbcbmbeb 24, 1914. 



are usually brought into the houses 

 either in the manure or in the soil. ' 



W. H. T. 



ODCN LCITEI^^"' READEUB 



GUM AND FLOWERS. 



Two million dollars annually is spent 

 to advertise Spearmint gum. This money 

 sells five hundred million packages, 

 making the cost of % of a cent per 

 package for advertising. Now, if the 

 net profit is only one-half of , the ad- 

 vertising cost, it's a nice little best egg 

 for one firm to enjoy annually — don't 

 you think so? Such an output and such 

 a profit is not possible without the aid 

 of advertising. 



Now, there are about 20,000 florists in 

 America and if everyone should con- 

 tribute $100 per annum, the $2,000,000 

 obtained thereby, if similarly invested 

 in publicity to sell flowers, would 

 create such a demand that the present 

 amount of greenhouse space would not 

 accommodate ten p^r cent of the stock 

 required to fill the orders. 



You may think this an exaggeration, 

 but I think not. If that much money 

 can induce Americans to wiggle their 

 jaws and consume two billion five hun- 

 dred million pieces of gum annually, 

 what do you suppose it would do for 

 the flower business? And everyone 

 doesn 't chew gum either. If one firm can 

 spend that much money per annum to 

 advertise a luxury called gum I think 

 it is about time some concerted action 

 was taken by American florists to na- 

 tionalize flowers. And in speaking of 

 American florists, I include the Cana- 

 dians, as I consider them part of us, 

 and a part to be' proud of at that. 



Ralph M. Ward, 



HEAP son. TO STEADY TBEES. 



Replying to the inquiry of T. J. in 

 The Review for December 10, in regard 

 to the purpose of mounding soil around 

 newly planted trees, some planters 

 place a mound of earth around fall 

 planted trees to steady them during 

 the winter storms. Personally, I think 

 a good stake is much better. 



Frederick C. Green, 

 Supt. of Parks, Providence, R. I. 



REMEDY FOE WHITE FLY. 



I have read in The Review several 

 times of remedies, for white fly, with 

 which I have had a great deal of 

 trouble in the past. They hang on the 

 tomatoes and late beans outdoors, and 

 when the weather turns cold they flock 

 into the greenhouses. I grow snap- 

 dragons and sweet peas to a large ex- 

 tent, and upon these hydrocyanic acid 

 gas seems to have an injurious effect. 

 I have tried several of the tobacco in- 

 secticides, but they failed. I have, how- 

 ever, cleared the house several times 

 with quassia bark. One ounce of bark 

 is boiled in one gallon of water for 

 about three hours. The liquid is then 

 strained through a gauze, and with it is 

 added double the quantity of water. 

 This will make nearly three gallons of 

 liquid, which is distributed through & 

 fine spray. I have never noticed this 

 spray do any harm to foliage or blooms. 



It seems that the odor, which hangs on 

 the plants for some time, kills the eggs. 

 -oj A. T. Vandegrift. 



EELWOBMS AND ROOT KNOT. 



Can you give me any information in 

 regard to eelworms? Is there any 

 chance of getting rid of them and what 

 treatment would you recommend? The 

 term "eelworm" seems to cover a gen- 

 eral class. The worms to which we re- 

 fer cause root knot and the name, I 

 believe, is anguillidse. D. F. C. 



Eelworms in quantity are a difficult 

 proposition to contend with, and any 

 crop that is badly infested with them 

 might better be thrown out. Applica- 

 tions of lime to the soil may help some- 

 what, but cannot be depended upon as a 

 complete cure. The plants affected 

 should be burned, and the soil in which 

 they were growing should be removed 

 from the greenhouse and spread »ut 

 thinly outdoors, in order that it may 

 be thoroughly frozen. Thorough freez- 

 ing is said to kill these pests, which 



ALLIUM NEAPOLITANUM. 



Can you give some information re- 

 garding the culture of Allium Neapoli- 

 tanum? I have heard that it can be 

 forced and would like to know the time 

 it takes for maturity; also, the tem- 

 perature it requires. F. W. B. 



This allium may be grown outdoors 

 or forced under glass. Use 6-inch pots 

 or pans to force it in. It should not 

 be subjected to any hard forcing, being 

 much better in every way if brought 

 along in an ordinary greenhouse tem- 

 perature of 50 degrees at night. Pro- 

 vided the bulbs were potted in October 

 or November, they will flower early in 

 March. If not yet potted they will be 

 later. Bulbs kept out of the soil until 

 now will not, of course, be equal to 

 the earlier potted ones. The bulbs lose 

 much of their vitality when kept out 

 of the soil until so late a date as De- 

 cember. Use a light, moderately rich 

 soil and do not add any fresh manure, 

 which is harmful to all bulbs. C. W. 



Fairfield, la, — E. H. Montgomery is 

 making plans for the erection of two 

 new greenhouses, each 34x100 feet. 

 Representatives of Chicago construction 

 concerns have been here estimating on 

 the work. 



isi^tion ^nd 



Leg^ Decision: 



INDEFINITE CONTRACTS TO BUY. 



Application of the rule of law that 

 there can be no enforceable contract of 

 sale unless there is a direct meeting of 

 minds of the parties on the essential 

 terms of the sale, is well illustrated by 

 the decision of the Minnesota Supreme 

 Court in the case of Meeruwen vs. Swan- 

 son, 121 Minnesota Reports 250. In this 

 case it was held that there was no bind- 

 ing contract for a sale of bulbs under 

 the negotiations mentioned below: 



Plaintiffs lived in Holland and were 

 engaged in growing and selling flower 

 bulbs. One of them called on defendant 

 in St. Paul to solicit an order for the 

 ensuing season. Defendant told plain- 

 tiff what bulbs he should want, and 

 plaintiff made a triplicate list of them, 

 and left one of the copies with defend- 

 ant. The list was not signed, and prices 

 were not fixed. The bulbs were to be 

 grown the next year, and prices would 

 depend on market conditions at that 

 time. The next year plaintiffs sent de- , 

 fendant one of their triplicate lists, 

 with prices extended on most items, and 

 asked, in the event that lower prices 

 were quoted by others, that they be 

 given a chance to meet the same. De- 

 fendant replied that he had sold his 

 florists' business to a corporation, and 

 that he had turned * * this year 's orders ' ' 

 over to that company, which would cor- 

 respond with plaintiffs. Plaintiffs 

 shipped the goods c^jvered by the list to 

 the company in two shipments. The 

 company received the first shipment, but 

 refused the second. Plaintiffs then 



tendered the second shipment to de- 

 fendant, and, on its being refused, sued 

 for damages resulting from the non-ac- 

 ceptance. S. 



INJURY TO STOCK IN TRANSIT. 



The following stated rules of law, 

 which were lately announced by the 

 South Dakota Supreme Court in the case 

 of Dunlap vs. Great Northern Ry. Co., 

 148 Northwestern Reporter 529, will be 

 found to apply to cases in which florists' 

 stock or other perishable freight is in- 

 jured in the course of transportation by 

 rail: 



When a shipment is delivered in good 

 order to a railway company for trans- 

 portation to a point on another line, but 

 arrives in a damaged condition, it will 

 be presumed that the loss occurred on 

 the line of the delivering railway com- 

 pany, and the burden is on that company 

 to disprove the fact. (It is to be re- 

 membered, however, that, under the 

 federal laws, a carrier which receives a 

 shipment for through transportation to 

 a point on another line in another state 

 may be held responsible for loss occur- 

 ring on connecting lines, as well as on 

 its own road.) 



When a delivering carrier refuses to 

 surrender the shipment without produc- 

 tion of the bill of lading and that has 

 been lost, and, pending the procuring of 

 authority for release of the shipment, it 

 is damaged through failure of the rail- 

 way company to properly care for it, the 

 company becomes liable to the owner of 

 the freight. S. 



