OcxOBfiS 20. 1914. 



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OBITUARY 



Micliael Barrett. 



Mi' liael Barrett, for many years well 

 knouu in Boston's retail trade, died 

 Octo'er 23 after some months of sick- 

 ness 1 lom cancer. The deceased was at 

 one 'ime with the firm of Siebrecht & 

 Wadu'y, New Rochelle, N, Y. After 

 remo ing to Boston he was for some 

 time with W. E. Doyle. He later went 

 with T. F, Galvin, being in charge of 

 the I lant department there for about 

 fiftcm years. When MacMulkin opened 

 his i-tore on Boylston street Mr. Barrett 

 went there as manager, a position he re- 

 tainrd until serious illness incapacitated 

 him. Mr. Barrett was popular in the 

 Boston retail trade and had a wide ac- 

 quaintance among the growers. , He 

 was admitted to be one of the best 

 judges and buyers of plants Boston ever 

 had. 



Funeral services were held from the 

 residence, 30 Hopedale street, Allston, 

 October 26. There was a large gather- 

 ing of sorrowing friends at the services 

 in the church, many in the trade at- 

 tending, and the floral tributes from his 

 former confreres, organizations, rela- 

 tives and other friends were numerous 

 and beautiful. 



Bobert Turpie. 



Robert Turpie, until recently gar- 

 dener for C. A. Hass, of Milton, Mass., 

 died at Quincy, October 20. He was a 

 native of Forfarshire, Scotland, and 

 c^me to America eight years ago. He 

 had worked in Pomfret, Conn., Brain- 

 tree, Mass., and other places and was of 

 a genial and kindly disposition. His 

 death at the age of 34 years brings sor- 

 row to many friends. The deceased 

 leaves a widow and three children, to 

 whom much sympathy is extended. W. 

 J.Collins, of Carter 's'Tested Seeds, Inc., 

 is a brother-in-law. Funeral services, in 

 charge of the Masonic fraternity, of 

 which he was a member, were held at 

 Quiney October 23. Among the floral 

 tributes was one from the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston, to which 

 organization the deceased had belonged 

 tor several years. 



Luke Mahan. 



Luke Mahan, for nineteen years in 

 Charge of the Lee estate, Brookline, 

 ^ass died October 2 at his residence, 

 »U9 Boylston street, Brooklyn, at the 

 age of 73 years. The deceased was 

 genial and popular with many of the 

 fratt in Massachusetts and was one of 

 |"e good old school, growing rapidly 

 ^s^- He had for many years been a 

 racinber of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 ^^i"b of Boston, a delegation from which 

 ^"'•'ided the funeral services October 5, 

 ^^ I'.indsome floral design also being 



Edgar McConnell. 



^■'igar McConnell, a brief notice of 



'Kse death appeared in this column 



rf ^?ek, passed away at his sister's 



"0''o, in Washington, N. J., October 12, 



y^ lie age of 73. He was born in 



^ Jrd, N. J,, and was a carpenter by 



'« le until 1878, when he started in the 



ve',''^i garden business. After two 



. .!js he embarked in the flower business 



,,]., ""ookfield, O. In 1905 he sold his 



|,*'^^" there, going to Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 



'^■<^s head carnation grower for Ira 



TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEBN: 



The annual Special Autumn Number of The Beview will ap- 

 pear November 12. 



The date is chasen because it is the week most advertisers 

 choose to start their heavy Christmas campaign, and becaiise it is 

 the week for advertising Thanksgiving specialties, and the week 

 of the autumn shows. With all these features The Beview will be 

 one of the most important of the year. 



In spite of the great increase in the value of Beview space this 

 season, the rate is not changed. 



Advertisements should be sent as early as possible. Nothing 

 ever is lost by giving the printers a little time for their part of the 

 work. 



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G. Marvin there for two'or three years. 

 Then he resigned and started with Wm. 

 McDonald, of Moosic, Pa., leaving there 

 about two years ago, when he accepted 

 a position as propagator for T. B. Mc- 

 Clintock, at Scranton, where he remained 

 until his death. 



Mr. McConnell was a member of the 

 Scranton Florists' Club, in which he 

 was much interested. He is survived 

 by one son, Charles, and one grandson, 

 Harold McConndl, of Sharon, Pa., and 

 one sister, Mrs. Joseph Fisher, of Wash- 

 ington, N. J. The funeral was held in 

 Scranton, Friday, October 16, and burial 

 was at Forest Hill demetery. 



Vegetable Forcing 



FOECING WHITE ONION SETS. 



Kindly advise me in regard to forc- 

 ing white onion sets. C. S. F. 



You can plant white onion sets in any 

 of your benches. They succeed well in 

 the same temperature as lettuce, 45 to 

 50 degrees at night, but will endure a 

 considerably lower temperature. The 

 cooler they are grown the better will 

 their flavor be. The warmer you keep 

 them the stronger flavored they will be. 

 They need rich soil, containing one- 

 third manure. Use sets of uniform size 

 and plant 3x4 inches apart. Potato or 

 Multiplier onions do well inside and 

 make a quick and profitable crop for 

 benching. C. W. 



CYANIDE AND LETTUCE. 



I would like to use hydrocyanic acid 

 gas to fumigate my lettuce. I have always 

 used tobacco stems and find that they 

 are not a success. Will you tell me how 

 this gas is used and about the amount 

 it will take for a house 50x140, and 

 how often to fumigate? I am bothered 

 every winter with aphis. A. L. P. 



First ascertain the cubic contents of 

 your house. You can get this by multi- 

 plying the length by the breadth and 

 the result by the height to the eave plus 

 half the height from eave to ridge. 

 Thus: length by breadth is 7,000; if 

 your average height is ten feet, your 

 cubic contents is 70,000 feet. 



Fumigation with gas should be done 

 at flight and there always is more dan- 



ger of injury in a high than in a low 

 temperature. Only earthenware jars 

 should be used for this fumigant; wood 

 and metal ones soon would be eaten 

 away. Most of the growers arrange to 

 open the ventilators from outdoors half 

 an hour or so after fumigation is given. 

 All ventilators must be tightly closed 

 before fumigation starts, and any broken 

 glass should be replaced. Doors should 

 all be securely locked, except the one 

 used by the operator as an exit; it also 

 must be locked immediately after he has 

 finished hie work, and be sure that no 

 one enters under any consideration, as 

 this gas is a most deadly one, its inhala- 

 tion causing almost instant death. 

 Operators, therefore, cannot be too 

 careful. 



In your house, which is a wide one, 

 two rows of jars would be advantageous, 

 but two operators are needed to do the 

 work. For your house, I would use 

 eight jars in two rows, or one row down 

 the center. Assuming that your house 

 contains 75,000 cubic feet, you would 

 need for each fumigation thirty-two 

 ounces of potassium cyanide of ninety- 

 eight per cent quality, and sixty-four 

 ounces of sulphuric acid; also eighty- 

 eight ounces of water. First pour 

 eleven ounces of water into each jar, 

 then eight ounces of sulphuric acid into 

 each. Last, having carefully weighed 

 the cyanide and wrapped it in small 

 paper parcels, start at one end and drop 

 the cyanidfe in the first jar, walking 

 toward the other end and dropping the 

 parcels of cyanide as each jar is passed. 

 Do not on any account make any pause. 

 Walk quickly toward the door when 

 all are dropped, lock it and keep outside. 

 If you have no facilities for opening 

 the ventilators from the outside, an all- 

 • night exposure will do no harm, but 

 be sure that no one enters the house. 

 Open the doors early in the morning and 

 leave them open some time before enter- 

 ing if the weather is not too cool. 



Fumigation should be done in a dry 

 atmosphere. In breaking up lumps of 

 cyanide crystals lay them in a cloth 

 bag. The writer knows of one case 

 where a man lost the sight of an eye 

 from a cyanide crystal striking the ball. 

 Be sure also to keep this deadly poison 

 securely locked up. Also, remember 

 that the sulphuric acid is poison. Once 

 in two weeks will keep lettuce clean. 

 C. W. 



Montgomery on Grafted Bosea, sent 

 hy The Review for 25 cents. 



