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he added by lease the Twombly place 

 over which he had presided as fore- 

 man. For years he iaas been winning 

 increasing fame as a chrysanthemum 

 specialist, and he is particularly well 

 known to readers of The Review as 

 the writer of much valuable matter with 

 reference to his favorite flower. 



John A. Evans. 



John A. Evans, of the Quaker City 

 Machine Co., Richmond, Ind., is ex- 

 ceedingly modest and unpretentious as 

 to the amount of information he has 

 furnished for this sketch. If he were 

 running for office, it would be difficult 

 to construct a good campaign docu 

 ment from his meager and matter-of- 

 fact statements. He and his company 

 are already well known to the trade 

 as the manufacturers of the Evans 

 Challenge ventilating apparatus. Aside 

 from that, he simply mentions that he 

 was born in Allegheny, Pa., January 25, 

 1853, that he started in the business of 

 making his ventilating apparatus in 

 1885, that he has been a member of the 

 S. A. F. since the first meeting at Phil- 

 adelphia, that he has attended every 

 convention of the society except the 

 first one, held at Cincinnati in 1885, 

 and that he is now a life member of 

 the S. A. F. 



SALVIA SEEDS. 



In The Review for January 4 C. W. 

 advises the sowing of scarlet sage early 

 in March. That date is too late for 

 the temperature in which I grow the 

 plants. I find February 10 late enough 

 if grown in a temperature of 50 to 55 



John A. Evans. 



Charles H. Totly. 



degrees. Several years ago I had to 

 throw away most of my sage because 

 it was not in bloom for Decoration day. 

 I sowed it the first week in March that 

 year. My plants do not get tall when 

 grown in a temperature of 50 to 55 

 degrees E. J. Hull. 



ANTIDOTE FOR RHUS POISON. 



E. O. Orpet, of Lake Forest, 111., 

 speaking of ivy poisoning, says that 

 "last summer, when Rhus toxicodendron 

 was just budding forth with blood-red 

 shoots, four men were employed to 

 root it up, for unless given something 

 to climb upon, it becomes a pestiferous 

 ground weed. These men were seem- 

 ingly immune until hot weather, but 

 when perspiration was free all were 

 badly affected. The face swells to such 

 an extent that the sufferer can scarcely 

 see, and other portions of the body are 

 also affected. 



"Our physician recommended as a 

 remedy tincture of Sanguinaria Cana- 

 densis, sopped on with a soft cloth. 

 Each man was cured in four days by 

 the use of this simple remedy. The 

 bloodroot grows plentifully here with 

 the rhus in similar situations, and a 

 pint of the tincture is ample to effect 

 a cure of a serious case. Physicians also 

 recommend the fluid extract of Grinde- 

 lia robusta for cases of poison from 

 Rhus toxicodendron and R. venenata, 

 the latter being the worse of the two 

 species." 



Hamilton, Ont.— The Connon Floral 

 Co. has purchased a block of land at 

 Stony Creek and will build green- 

 houses there. The firm has engaged 

 the services of George Cooper, formerly 

 of Rice & Cooper, of the Mountain 

 Greenhouses, North Grimsby, Ont. 



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