. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. -TC » V »• 16 The Rorists^ Review JuNB 29. 1922 fifteen to eighteen incites long in the open, iis they do there, requires exact conditions, and to look over extensive acreages of such stock gives a sweet pea enthusiast an eyeful. Mr. Cuthbertson has practically fixed a selection of duplex in cream and white, late flower- ing. This breaks into the new class we have been looking for. The stock is lim- ited, but it is tliere and requires only time to work it up. At Ouadaloupe. Down at Guadaloupe, also within a few miles of the coast, is another favor-
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. -TC » V »• 16 The Rorists^ Review JuNB 29. 1922 fifteen to eighteen incites long in the open, iis they do there, requires exact conditions, and to look over extensive acreages of such stock gives a sweet pea enthusiast an eyeful. Mr. Cuthbertson has practically fixed a selection of duplex in cream and white, late flower- ing. This breaks into the new class we have been looking for. The stock is lim- ited, but it is tliere and requires only time to work it up. At Ouadaloupe. Down at Guadaloupe, also within a few miles of the coast, is another favor- ably located sweet pea ranch, of .'500 acres, owned by the L. D. Waller Seed Co. There is a large acreage of many other flower seeds, specialties—in fact, everything in this line is tried out and produced extensively if the growing conditions are exact. The vagaries of climatic conditions along the coast, caused by the influence of air move- ments from the ocean through various mountain passes, makes necessary a careful study of these conditions, as they affect different crops. A line that will not do well at the home ranch may find its perfect developing conditions a few miles away. Mr. Waller points with j)ride to a block of the new early-flower- ing sweet pea. Grenadier, a large, rich crimson, on phenomenal stems. The American Ijegion poppy, of the Shirley type, is a flaming scarlet; the writer believes it should be carefully tried out by cut flower growers. A bunch of these, cut close and sent home by parcel post, arrived in fair condition four days later. Of course, the petals dropped in a short time after the flowers were unpacked. Probably the largest collection of Cupid sweet peas in the world is to be found on this ranch. This class is grown principally for the European trade, where the cut flower is not so imjiortant a factor as is the bedding plant busi- ness. To Lompoc Valley. I was given to understand by these California boosters that the only bad stretch of
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