. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. DKCSMBfiB 10, 1914. The Florists^ Review 89^^ u?*«'r', :\\^ . if A<. ;. -u Baxwood, Pine Canes, Thistles and Red Berries Leave the Holly Wreath Little Chance with a Prosperous Customer. from them, I would not advise you to try this treatment. Give the plants a cool greenhouse if you want them in presentable condition for spring sales. Cutting back the long shoots somewhat is permissible, but the plants should not be headed back hard. Their great value as vase, window box and basket plants lies in the long, drooping shoots. C. W. SOIL ABOUND TBEE
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. DKCSMBfiB 10, 1914. The Florists^ Review 89^^ u?*«'r', :\\^ . if A<. ;. -u Baxwood, Pine Canes, Thistles and Red Berries Leave the Holly Wreath Little Chance with a Prosperous Customer. from them, I would not advise you to try this treatment. Give the plants a cool greenhouse if you want them in presentable condition for spring sales. Cutting back the long shoots somewhat is permissible, but the plants should not be headed back hard. Their great value as vase, window box and basket plants lies in the long, drooping shoots. C. W. SOIL ABOUND TBEE TBUNKS? I have been planting a large num- ber of forest trees, such as pin oaks, white ash, sugar maples, cut-leaved ma- ples, etc., and I notice that in this city it is customary to heap up a big mound of earth around the tree and then top-dress with a thick layer of manure. On inquiring why this is done, I am told that it is to protect the trees from cutworms and borers. I should think that this would have the opposite effect, as the heaped up mound would afford shelter and protection to the cutworms and borers. A practice here, also, is to tie flexible boards around the stem for the same purpose. I shall be glad to have your opinion on these points, and also as to the best way to protect the trees from borers and cutworms. T. J. I should certainly agree with you in saying that mounding up soil and manure about the stems of such trees as you name would make an ideal har- bor for borers rather than prevent their attacks. There may, however, be sonve special benefit in this protection which some reader can inform us of. Cut- worms are hot in the habit of attack- ing the stems of trees. They prefer soft flcwer and, vegetable plant growth. Cutworms do not appear until late spring and can be destroyed by sprink- ling a poisoned bran mash about their haunts. The free use of lime and soot, and fall plowing, leaving the ground rough over winter, helps to reduce their numbers. Borer
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