. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 164 The American Florist. Aug. 17, THE CARNATION. Notes In Season. IN THE EAST. Having just finished planting our car- nations a few observations made for next season's use may be of some inter- est to your readers. For the first time in my experience we potted up about 5000 of our carnations from two, to three, and later on into 4-inch pots; these made excellent stock by June i. better than they would in the average chantress leads in quality with White Perfection next, then Aristocrat, John E. Haines and Pink Im
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 164 The American Florist. Aug. 17, THE CARNATION. Notes In Season. IN THE EAST. Having just finished planting our car- nations a few observations made for next season's use may be of some inter- est to your readers. For the first time in my experience we potted up about 5000 of our carnations from two, to three, and later on into 4-inch pots; these made excellent stock by June i. better than they would in the average chantress leads in quality with White Perfection next, then Aristocrat, John E. Haines and Pink Imperial not much behind but of a more straggly growth and apparently more subject to insect attacks or more easily injured by them. Penna. The Pennsylvania Hort. Society's Hall. Slightly altered from a historical sketch published in 1895. In 1865-66 the society appointed com- mittees to solicit subscriptions for build- ing a hall, and $80,000 were collected. W. p. CRAIG'S HOUSE OF NEPHROLEPIS AMERPOHLI AT PHILADELPHIA, PA. season owing to the extreme cool weather we had all through May. .^bout 1500 of these were planted, June 3, into a solid bed in a small house; these today are as fine plants as one wants to look at and more especially so as the whole month of June and part of July was unseasonably cool weather. About the same number of the same va- riety was planted on a bench July 7; to- day they are not as good by half as the earlier planting, and the balance of the lot planted the same week in solid beds are fully 80 per cent behind the June planted stock in every way. We commenced, July 22, taking plants from the field; they were frozen soon after planting out, then dried up with a severe drouth, then deluged with rain for a period of almost a month and af- flicted with insects worse than in any previous experience. In spite of all this they were fairly good plants and do not present a bad appearance in the houses; they are full of breaks from the ground up and in this res
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