. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 620 The American Florist. April 2j, Diseases of^French (Roman) Hyacinths. Two pests appeared last year (1909) to curtail the production of hyacinth bulbs at Ollioules, France, the home of the Roman hyacinth. The first was an insidious little green worm which worked its way to the very vitals of the bulb and left it hollow as a sepulchre after its passage, while to all intents and purposes the bulb was sound and healthy. It takes an ex- perienced hand and eye and much hard work to sort out the contami- nated bulbs
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 620 The American Florist. April 2j, Diseases of^French (Roman) Hyacinths. Two pests appeared last year (1909) to curtail the production of hyacinth bulbs at Ollioules, France, the home of the Roman hyacinth. The first was an insidious little green worm which worked its way to the very vitals of the bulb and left it hollow as a sepulchre after its passage, while to all intents and purposes the bulb was sound and healthy. It takes an ex- perienced hand and eye and much hard work to sort out the contami- nated bulbs from a lot of 100,000 or 1,000,000, but that is what several of the Ollioules shippers undertook to do this season. Some of the smaller cul- tivators lost their all, as the shippers would not knowingly buy of a grower whose crop was attacked. A field of hyacinths would be per- fectly sound and another right beside It would be attacked so badly that not a healthy specimen remained. Knowingly, or unknowingly, certain of these bulbs were put upon the market, and that is why the mere caliber of the bulbs did not make the market price this year as it had formerly. Even the additional 50 in 1,000, in- creased in many instances to 100, would not reimburse the shipper for the extra work involved in sorting out the good from the bad, for the peasant grower could hardly tell the good from the bad. A sound bulb of 12 centi- metres was worth considerably more than a hollow one of 15. It was this prime cause that accounted for the increased number of shipments of French bulbs to the United States this season from Ollioules and Hyeres. In actual volume the sale was perhaps not so large as in former years, but the number of shipments was largely increased by the scarcity of the bulbs at certain moments, for it is a well recognized fact that the product must reach the American market in all cases as soon as it is gathered. The necessity of watching and sort- ing the stock as it was brought in
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