. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 26 The Florists^ Review Mat 19, 1021 with Kentia Forsteriana and Bel- moreana, Aspidistra lurida variegata, Dractena Tricolor, a striking novelty, and the golden sansevieria, Laurentii. They are growing finely. Outside I have 17,000 dracffinas. Henry C. Geiger helped saw up the dracsena canes, while James McClain put them in the ground. They are cut in pieces about ten inches long and stuck in the soil as we do California privet here. They root with ease and grow lik-e weeds. I have no buildings on the farm, just two tents. Fred Pennock has been gr
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 26 The Florists^ Review Mat 19, 1021 with Kentia Forsteriana and Bel- moreana, Aspidistra lurida variegata, Dractena Tricolor, a striking novelty, and the golden sansevieria, Laurentii. They are growing finely. Outside I have 17,000 dracffinas. Henry C. Geiger helped saw up the dracsena canes, while James McClain put them in the ground. They are cut in pieces about ten inches long and stuck in the soil as we do California privet here. They root with ease and grow lik-e weeds. I have no buildings on the farm, just two tents. Fred Pennock has been growing some dracffinas, and an orange grower has a lot of kentias; so you see horticulture is only just starting in Porto Eico. I hope to go down again in August. I enjoy the life and find the work interesting. GETTINa MONEY TO BUILD. Topeka, Kan., is a town with a popu- lation of about 50,000 and supplies a surrounding territory which has about 350,000 inhabitants. Yet this popu- lous area depends almost entirely on outside sources for its flower supply. Arlo Hubbard has been actively en- gaged in the seed, flower and nursery business all his lif^. He has worked in his father's store, at Topeka; at the seed store of the W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, and has graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural College. He saw the need for a grower in the vicin- ity of Topeka and he knew that he was capable of operating the establishment which he had in mind. But he didn't have the necessary capital. He didn't want to begin on a small scale and .grow, but he wanted to start right in to supply this greenhouse-poor market. Those two things explain an adver tisement that • covered almost a full page in the Topeka Daily Capital for May 11. The advertisement told about the wonderful market for greenhouse products that there was around Topeka, told how well equipped Arlo Hubbard was to operate the greenhouse range, told about the location of the new range, and, in fact, told everything in conn
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