. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. PROOF is to ask tlic man that turns the wlicel. He knows AdvaiK-i' Sasli Operating' Devices wovk easier and are never eiit el' order. Veil will like eui- fair ;ind s(iuare business nietlieds. It will pay you to use our Sash Operating- Devices and (Irceiihouse Fitting's. Advance Co., Richmond, Ind. SPLIT CARNATIONS ARE BEST MENDED WITH SUPREME CARNATION STAPLES Sample on request No tools required Wholesalers write for price! 35c per lOOO Postpaid 3000 for $ F. W. WAITE, Manufacturer. 85 Belmont Avenue, SPRINGFIELD. MASS. usual custom. 'Nrillejte
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. PROOF is to ask tlic man that turns the wlicel. He knows AdvaiK-i' Sasli Operating' Devices wovk easier and are never eiit el' order. Veil will like eui- fair ;ind s(iuare business nietlieds. It will pay you to use our Sash Operating- Devices and (Irceiihouse Fitting's. Advance Co., Richmond, Ind. SPLIT CARNATIONS ARE BEST MENDED WITH SUPREME CARNATION STAPLES Sample on request No tools required Wholesalers write for price! 35c per lOOO Postpaid 3000 for $ F. W. WAITE, Manufacturer. 85 Belmont Avenue, SPRINGFIELD. MASS. usual custom. 'Nrillejtedes collected in this manner can bo destroyed with boil- ing water, kerosene or nicotine, or can sim|dy be removed with a trowel and crushed. W. E. liritton, state entomolo- gist of Connecticut, recommends that a hole be cut in a potato and the tuber buried in thi> soil. .1. K. Sanders' de- scrilu's a niidhod cmi)loyed in the green- houses in Wisconsin; thin slices of car- rots are placed under boards, and the niillepedt's collected under tlu'in are ciuslieotato were dusted with powdered arsenate of lead, Paris green or \Yhite arsenic, but the millepedes fed on them only sparingly, and none could be found that had been injured by the jtoison. Su(di a method might i>rove more effective where the humus is not so abundant in the soil. Experiments with tobacco ])roducts show that they are ])robably the best material for the control of the green- house millepede. Tobacco Dust. Tobacco dust s[)rinkled ou the beds at the rate of ."iOU pounds to the acre, or about one ounce tcj each nine square fe(d, ju'o\ed f.'iiriy efVi'ctive. On the day following suidi a treatment .about idghty- live per cent of the milleitedes on the beds were dead, although some appar- ently noiinal indi\ iilu.'ils were moving ai'fiund through the dust. Of the mille- pedes btdow the surface, only about live ]ier cent were dead. Specimens were as numerous on the treated bench as on the check ]dot. Two da
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