. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ro6i DUTCH FLOWEBS IN LONDON. Holland blooms are now being placed on the English markets and in the Dutch shops simultaneously, according to information received by the De- partment of Commerce, Washington, I). C, from Trade Commissioner Howard W. Adams, at The Hague. The Dutch florists have adopted the expedient of sending their flowers daily to the Lon- don market by aerojilane. The flowers are cut at night, packed early the next morning and sent by automobile from the Boskoop flower growing district to the Waalhaven aerodrome, near Rotter- dam.
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ro6i DUTCH FLOWEBS IN LONDON. Holland blooms are now being placed on the English markets and in the Dutch shops simultaneously, according to information received by the De- partment of Commerce, Washington, I). C, from Trade Commissioner Howard W. Adams, at The Hague. The Dutch florists have adopted the expedient of sending their flowers daily to the Lon- don market by aerojilane. The flowers are cut at night, packed early the next morning and sent by automobile from the Boskoop flower growing district to the Waalhaven aerodrome, near Rotter- dam. The flowers arrive at Croydon, England, at 1:30 p. m., and from there they are dispatched by automobile to the London florists. About 100 kilo- grams ( pounds) of flowers per day are to be transported in this way, tlie dispateh says. acres had been treated, hardly a eater- pillar was left ; INTEBESTINO IF TBUE! A British daily paper recently de- voted considerable space to a report of iin experiment in spraying. It appears that the crop on fifty acres of fruit trees was in danger of destruction owing to the ravages of caterpillars, when the owner hit upon the idea of having the trees sprayed with a dry powder in- secticide by means of an aeroplane. Ar- rangements were made in due course and the aeroplane, flying from ten to twelve yards above the fruit trees, dis- tributed about half a ton of insecticide. Said the report: "The operation was so successful that, after the whole fifty FILMS TO SELL TOMATOES. Though the land across the water is spoken of as the "old country," it is not so behind the times as is sometimes implied. Indeed, it appears that, hor- ticulturally, the folks there are, in some instances, in the van. One instance is that of the British Glasshouse Market- ing Association, the organization of which was related in these columns some time since.' The association, whose object is to advertise British-grown to- matoes, has prepared
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