. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Drcbmbbs 12, 1912. The Florists' Review 33. Big Basket with Heart-tfiaped Handle, Filled with Poinrettias. Crotons and Adiantum. that none of these plants should long be exposed to a temperature lower than 50 degrees, or they will soon show it in loss of foliage. They should therefore be extra well protected when sent out to customers during severe weather. Fern Dishes. There is invariably considerable call for fern dishes at Christmas and it is well to have a good number made up in advance. Some prefer them with a small Cocos Weddelliana as a cent
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Drcbmbbs 12, 1912. The Florists' Review 33. Big Basket with Heart-tfiaped Handle, Filled with Poinrettias. Crotons and Adiantum. that none of these plants should long be exposed to a temperature lower than 50 degrees, or they will soon show it in loss of foliage. They should therefore be extra well protected when sent out to customers during severe weather. Fern Dishes. There is invariably considerable call for fern dishes at Christmas and it is well to have a good number made up in advance. Some prefer them with a small Cocos Weddelliana as a center- piece. If a sufficient stock of these ^ small ferns has not been laid in, se- cure them at once from one of the spiecialists. All the pteris are good, except, of course, such rank growers as tremula. Such adiantums as Groweanum, cuneatum and gracillimum, Cyrtomium falcatum, Aspidium Tsussimense and Davallia stricta are all good. The adiantums look best by themselves, but other sorts are all right either separate or mixed. Specimen Ferns. The nephrolepis is the great fern for iiouse culture. The old Boston variety is still most in evidence and sells bet- ter than any other sort, but there is a wide assortment of other nephrolepis varieties, such as Whitmani compacta, elegantissima, Todeaoides, and others, all of which are beautiful. One of the /=^ finest and most beauti^ of house ferns is Cibotium Schiedei. It is really sur- prising how much ill treatment this will stand without showing its effects. Cyrtomium falcatum, the holly fern, is another sort which stands dry heat re- markably well. Adiantum Fkrleyense is especially handsome, but given one chill and one drying up at the root and it is all up with it. This holds good, of course, of all adiantums, and to a greater or less degree of all ferns. "Watering is of vital importance, or there will be a great loss while plants are in the store. Let a man attend to it who really understands it. Few store florists know much
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