. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Octobib 7, 1920 The Florists^ Review 21 groirtii. Mr. Erdman velates his meth- od of growing thus: Method of Oultore. "I planted last fall in trenches two inches deep, leaving a space of twelve inches between the trenches. The plants were four and ona-half inches apart in the trenches. I next obtained some horse manure and cow manure, mixing them. The manure was fresh from the stalls and contained plenty of long fiber, such as cornstalks and weed stems. With this I top-dressed the plants about one and one-half inches deep. "I did not do a
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Octobib 7, 1920 The Florists^ Review 21 groirtii. Mr. Erdman velates his meth- od of growing thus: Method of Oultore. "I planted last fall in trenches two inches deep, leaving a space of twelve inches between the trenches. The plants were four and ona-half inches apart in the trenches. I next obtained some horse manure and cow manure, mixing them. The manure was fresh from the stalls and contained plenty of long fiber, such as cornstalks and weed stems. With this I top-dressed the plants about one and one-half inches deep. "I did not do aayOung else until spring, and then I merely kept the weeds out. May and June were ex- ceptionally dry and cold. In July the plants bloomed, some throwing two stems and having all the way from one to five blooms on each stem. The bloom was seven inches long and was perfect, as nearly as I could telL No disease developed in any of the plants, to my knowledge. "Thd plot is forty feet from a large hickory tree and three feet from a small locust tree and three small walnuts. The road runs within two feet, but the plot is at an elevation of twenty feet from the road level. The soil was of a l^ht, sandy texture and in fair condi- tion, being plowed to a depth of eight inches.'' A VISIT TO LUTBEB BXTBBANK. I went to the little town of Santa Bosa, about fifty miles from San Fran- cisco. Upon arriving and looking around the station and the town in gen- eral, with a population of 5,000 people, you would never dream you would find across the bridge such an interesting lover of horticulture and floriculture as the world-wide known man, Luther Bnrbank. At his interesting trial grounds, everywhere one looked was something new, improvements on the^old and many new seedlings of foliagb, fruit and flowers. It was a day I had longed for, to meet such a man as Mr. Burbank. The re- ceptioA I was accorded was wonderful. First, at his house, we sat for a long time looking at colored pictures of
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