. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. no The Florists' Review Mat 6, 1020. The Clearwater Ornamental Nursery Co. was recently incorporated at Clear- water, Fla., with a camtal o^ $50,000. The officers are: Presiofent^^/B. Ken- nicott; vice-president, J. W. McNeely, and secretary-treiasurer, Angus Kenni- cott. NtJBSERYM?fcN in the middle west are execrating the weather. The cold April would not have been bad except for the continuous rains, which made planting almost impossible. And now we are on the eve of summer. It will be a short planting season. A FOLDER, "Looking Both Ways Be
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. no The Florists' Review Mat 6, 1020. The Clearwater Ornamental Nursery Co. was recently incorporated at Clear- water, Fla., with a camtal o^ $50,000. The officers are: Presiofent^^/B. Ken- nicott; vice-president, J. W. McNeely, and secretary-treiasurer, Angus Kenni- cott. NtJBSERYM?fcN in the middle west are execrating the weather. The cold April would not have been bad except for the continuous rains, which made planting almost impossible. And now we are on the eve of summer. It will be a short planting season. A FOLDER, "Looking Both Ways Be- fore You Buy Nursery Stock," has been prepared by the A. A. N. to be sent out to buyers of nursery stock. It explains the standards of the associationV mem- bership and solicits the buyer's coopera- tion in enforcing those standards. RAIDS BY RODENTS. Considerable damage was done last winter to trees, shrubs, hardy flowers and bulbs by rats and mice. In some sections whole beds of tulips were eaten away, while trees, even such robust kinds as poplars and maples, were en- tirely destroyed by these troublesome pests, which ate around the stems, in some cases to a great height. Owing to the snow hiding the depredations, the damage was mostly done before any- thing was noticed. Often the trees so damaged were hid from view by sur- rounding shrubs. A good preventive method is to paint around the stems with whatever would be objectionable to these destroyers, such as creosote, lime, sulphur or kero- sene. E. E. R. DYNAMITE FOB PLANTING. So numerous are the prevalent mis- conceptions regarding the effect of dynamite on the soil that a plain state- ment of what is the actual result of the explosion in the soil will set many persons right. It must be understood that the plan reoommended by the dy- namite propaganda is to bore a hole down to the substratum or subsoil, put in a half stick to a stick of dynamite and explode it. There are no noticeable upheavals at the time of the ex
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