. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 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 t
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 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 respect ahead of the best of the pot plants, as every break on August I means a flower for the win- ter. In pot olants I have Winsor, Bea- con, Enchantress and the almost dis- carded Lawson all about equally good plants excepting the June planted Law- son which are, as previously stated, much ahead of those planted later; if there is any difference it is in the En- chantress which made weaker growth and stems than either of the other varie- ties. Of the field grown plants, En- without much difficulty. The society, which had been incorporated March 24, 1831, received authority from the legisla- ture to make the purchase, and bought the lot of ground on Broad and Lafdner streets. The hall first erected was occupied in July, 1867. The building was 75 feet front and 200 feet deep. The front was of sandstone and brownstone. There were three stories-—a basement, partly unde
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