. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 12 The American Florist, Jan. 28, These blooms will arrive in better shape and last longer every time than if cut the day before. After carna- tions have been kept eighteen or twenty hours in water they seem to get kind of soggy and do not ship well. The boxes used for shipping carna- tions are made of thin wood, half-inch ends and quarter-inch tops, bottoms and sides, with two half-inch cleats to fasten the stems down and hold the ice securely. These boxes are usually twelve inches wide and four to eight inches d
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 12 The American Florist, Jan. 28, These blooms will arrive in better shape and last longer every time than if cut the day before. After carna- tions have been kept eighteen or twenty hours in water they seem to get kind of soggy and do not ship well. The boxes used for shipping carna- tions are made of thin wood, half-inch ends and quarter-inch tops, bottoms and sides, with two half-inch cleats to fasten the stems down and hold the ice securely. These boxes are usually twelve inches wide and four to eight inches deep, and thirty-six to forty-six inches long. The boxes may appear too long at first, but they are better too long than too short. Line the boxes first with four to eight thicknesses of newspapers, depending on the weather. Then a single thickness of soft wax paper all around. Commence and put in a row of carnations, usually about six flowers to a row, and between each row of heads place a strip of wax paper about three inches wide and as long as the box is wide; about four rows of flowers in each end will constitute a layer, and between each layer place a sheet of wax paper the width of the box and long enough to cover all the heads in that layer; keep on until the box is completed. It will be found that with the extra long stems now being grown that four or five rows in each end of the box will be all that can be put in a layer, as by that time the stems will be within six inches of the opposite row of flower heads. The number of layers of flowers should not go over four to six, which will allow of from two hun- dred to three hundred carnations in one box. In the center of the box where the stems meet there should be placed at least eight or ten thicknesses of well saturated newspapers. These newspapers should be kept in a pail of water so that they will have absorbed all the water they possibly can before being placed on the stems. After put- ting this wet paper on the stems
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