One ounce of Oleic acid mixed with eight ounces of Kerosene. In a For Treat- 
separate place mix eight ounces of water and two ounces of Nicofume. ment of 
After each has been mixed separately they are thoroughly combined, Oyster 
after which one ounce of the solution is used to two gallons of water. Shell Scale 
It is specially useful after the scale is hatched and is a good preventive on Lilacs 
at any time. This may be used for all kinds of scale. and Box 
This formula is used by Mr. Robert H. Bender of Chestnut Hill, 
Philadelphia, one of the foremost growers of Box edging and all 
kinds of larger Box in the country. 
News and Views 
For many years the leading spirit in amateur horticulture in the Eighty 
Middle West has been Mr. WilHam C. Egan of Egandale, Highland Years of 
Park, Illinois. Usefulness 
Mr. Egan's beautiful estate of little more than three acres has been 
developed by him with such taste and science that now it is the 
Mecca of garden lovers from all parts of the country, and his advice on 
landscape-gardening and horticulture is sought and valued alike by 
the professional and the amateur gardener. 
On Mr. Egan's eightieth birthday anniversary, April the first, 
The Garden Club of lUinois, of which he is a member, gave a dinner 
in his honor at the Casino Club in Chicago. Fitting decorations of 
beautiful iiowers, a birthday cake and gift, speeches and toasts and 
letters from Prof. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum, Mrs. Francis 
King and others testified to the affectionate esteem in which the dis- 
tinguished guest was held. The following sonnet was read by Mrs. 
Vibe K. Spicer: 
TO MR. EGAN, ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. 
If in each year you saw one drifting bough 
Of apple-blossom shake its petalled white, 
What hordes of flowery memories you have now 
Whose eyes have known that wonder and delight 
So often! If each year you had the luck 
To watch the firstling crocus peeping through 
The mold, and if your eager hand could pluck 
The young hepatica, how happy you 
Who more than many men have known these joys. 
Who more than most have caught the flashing wing 
Of the first blue-bird, heard the cheerful noise 
Of thankful home-come robins when they sing. 
Yet, for the springtime love of bird and bloom 
Eight hundred Aprils could not give us room! 
Anchusa. 
Another recognition of Mr. Egan's birthday was the christening Rose 
of a new American hybrid-tea Rose, originated by Howard and Smith William C. 
and to be disseminated in the spring of 1922 by Henry A. Dreer. To Egan 
the Garden Club of Illinois was accorded the honor of the christening 
ceremony and the achievement was announced in the following verse : 
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