St Louis College of Pharmacy - Prescripto Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Q---lust D rg E S C I2 I D 'I 0 Once the plants have been planted and glasses arranged to your own indi- viduality and the smears of soil cleaned from the glass, the bowl should be covered with a glass- lid. A small square of window pane or a glass saucer will serve excellently. Strange but natural, the garden creates its own weather in miniature- that is, moisture which collects on bowl and lid each morning will fall on the plants and soil later on in the day like a refreshing rain. The soil should be tested occa- sionally for moisture and if necessary should be sprinkled very lightly. Direct sunlight and dark corners must be equally avoided. A north window is ideal. Many city druggists find it inconvenient to reach even those vestigial bits of woods required to find native plants for glass gardens and many others prefer the more colorful arrangements possible with tropical plants which can be obtained at most florists. The following plants are very good for glass gardens: Selagiuella CClub mosses in iridescent shadesj Ficus rejem' Adia-ntmii Capillus Venerio fMaidenhair fernj Cocos W edelliami Seedlings Kentia F01'steria1ma Seedlings. M 'zmdo Japuicum CSnakebeardj Saint Paulia Ionantha fAfrican Violetj Aspiduim Folcaturn fltlolly fernj Nephrolejifs enfaltota CSword fernj For Bright Color Tradescantia QVVandering Iewj V ittonia CRed or VVhite mosaic leaf plantj Acalyphie VVilkesianna QCoffee leafj Pandaris Sanderi P. Veitchi CSaw plantj Maranta CDwarf speciesj Pteris Cretica Alboliniata Qvariegated fernj One can create many unusual effects by exerting a little imagination not only in the choice of materials to be planted but in the type of container to be used. A burnt-out electric bulb will serve excellently as a container for a tiny glass garden. The glass garden is as near fool-proof as any garden can be. Moisture is a problem that seldom intrucles itself and then only when occasional watering is necessary. Evaporation and condensation on the container itself keep up the supply in constant succession as atmospheric conditions dictate the very same things that take place in Nature's great out-of-doors. Glass gardens are not only fool-proof so far as care is concerned, but they are in the reach of everyone. No matter how limited your means may be they will thrive for you. fy- IQ 2: 2 QIPKY5' Page EightyfFz'ue

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at--la-a Dnliscnlnro l Glass Gardens An unusual and unique decoration for a drug store may be realized in these elaborate miniature greenhouses or glass gardens. Not only do they beautify the surroundings in the store itself, but they also serve to exemplify with much more dignity the professional air that seems to have been lost in the modern drug store. These artistic devices were beyond the scope as well as skill of most amateurs. It remained for Miss Ruth Barry, Secretary of the St. Louis Horticultural Society, to discover the ease of converting an ordinary fish bowl or candy jar into a glass garden. Planting these gardens is a matter of half an hour's pleasure preceded by a ten-minute stop at the florist's or an afternoon excursion to the nearest woodland. Then, with the aid of the pharmacist's Botanical knowledge and easy access to glass candy jars, it should be a task well worth its time. Once planted, they thrive everywhere out of direct sunlight or heavy shade. They require watering perhaps in six months, perhaps in a year, and ten minutes ventilation ranging from a day or so to a full week. In other words-they are distinctive, highly individual-since everyone's glass garden is his own personal creation-little or no trouble, and a nearly neglect-proof as flies and persons coming into one's store asking for change. A variety of odd or decorative glass enclosures may be used, but the most convenient is the ordinary aquarium in the form of a very flat disc or very flat cylinder-a round fish bowl with Hat sides. The glass must be clear, since plants will not thrive under tinted glass. First a large handful of charcoal in the bottom will aid in keeping the soil sweet. Next comes a handful of broken flower pots or of irregular shaped rocks. The soil most thoroughly tested for all suitable varieties of plants is a mixture of one part each, good garden soil, leaf mould and sandg but if native plants may be used a mixture of two parts well rotted leaf mould direct from the woods, plus one part sand. is probably better. It should be moistened after it is placed in the bowl. Landscaping begins long before the bowl is filled to its required level, about one- third of the way to the top. Moss and bits of colored stone are forced down the Hat sides. The moss grows upward in a miniature forest. The surface of the soil should be arranged in tiny hills and valleys to represent a natural woodland. A little decorative skill on the part of the Glass Gardeneru will make up for the lack of colorful plants. - Through the year and far into November the tiny rills in woods near the city will yield treasures of moss and baby ferns hidden against the winter under fallen leaves. Seedling of pine, cedar or spruce under three inches tall are real dis- coveries. Every variety of moss that grows on soil Cnot on woodj can be used and the tiny bright or boulder shaped bits of rock that probably will be found right along with it will add handy touches to the decorative scheme. A tiny rooted cut- ting of Begonia will begin to bloom almost immediately to add the color. f' te ' QQ ...Q 1 Q 3 2 15... .Q N LJ! Page Eighty-Four

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Dnfscnlncro 5:-----iv Pro essor Suppan Lectures on Pharmacy of the Past XRXFY Professor L. Suppan delivered a most interesting lecture entitled Pharmacy of the past, the history of Pharmacy of ancient and medieval time was interest- ingly related and the lecture was illustrated with a large number of slides. The reception of the lecture is best shown by quoting a few paragraphs of a newspaper article about the lecture. It is: Back to the days when a drug store was only a drug store, and even before that, Professor Leo Suppan transported several hundred alumni and friends of the College during the course of an illustrated lecture last night in the school audi- torium. . i W'ith the aid of lantern slides, the professor of 'Botany and Pharmacognosy depicted the earliest periods of the Apothecary's Art. In connection with Professor Suppan's lecture, a very interesting exhibit was prepared. Much credit is due those who worked so hard on the display and the decorating of the museum in which it was held. The persons who co-operated so splendidly with 'Professor Suppan and Associate Professor E. E. Clark were: Associate Professor VVH1. C. Clark and N. Ferguson g Mr. Chas. Mueller, custodian of the building, and the following students: Ieskey, Rosenhauer, Klosterman, Kleist, Iacobus, Jackson, Scott, McClurg, Redinger, Cosgrid, Marlen, Evans, Brueggeman, Sotier, Webb and Misses Benincasa, Fitch, Eisle, and Corbin. Spe- cial credit should be given also to the Chi Iota Phi pledges. There were present about 300 people including Alumni members, faculty board members, students and their friends. There was on display the most com- plete collection of ancient pharmaceutical equipment ever exhibited. The following articles are only a part of the entire collection which is too large to mention: One table consisted of a number of unique containers for imported crude drugs, such as monkey skins, containing aloes: horns used for packing civet, kegs covered with horsehide, for shipping iodine, woven fibre sacks, containing cinnamon from China, and tin-lined copper flasks containing volatile oils, also from China. In other sections were to be found: a large collection of old text books, relating to Pharmacy, that are now out of print and unobtainable g a display of a number of preparations made by students prior to the XVorld's Fair of 1904-g an old micro- scope using a coal oil lamp for illumination fthe only one, I believe, in St. Louisj 3 a certificate awarded by the now extinct St. Louis Board of Pharmacy, issued in 1879 5 a number of volumes printed in French and German and illustrated in some instances by hand colored drawings: a complete display of alkaloids and their salts obtained from Cinchona barkg a number of old mortars fone of which was used by the first drug store in old Fort St. Louis before the purchase of St. Louis and territory, an unusually odd collection of rare drugs, used in Chinese pharmacies fconsisting mostly of lizards, beetles, centipedes and other such digestible looking A -Q-no 3:2 as Page EiglityfSix