. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. dplants which should give a good accountof themselves. Cliinese I Primroses had better besown now for the batch to come in lateduring the last of the Winter and earlySpring months, also to supply the plantswhich will produce the crop of seed forthe following season. Plants of earlierbatches which flower during the dullmonths do not set seed so freely as thoi-ewhich produce their blossoms when thesun has more power. Let the pans forgerminating be well retain-ing ab
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. dplants which should give a good accountof themselves. Cliinese I Primroses had better besown now for the batch to come in lateduring the last of the Winter and earlySpring months, also to supply the plantswhich will produce the crop of seed forthe following season. Plants of earlierbatches which flower during the dullmonths do not set seed so freely as thoi-ewhich produce their blossoms when thesun has more power. Let the pans forgerminating be well retain-ing about an inch at the top for from the sun, and keep fairlymoist, avoiding a stagnant atmosphere. Wont some of our California co-workers who have been so successful Inthe crossing of flowers tiy what can bedone with Lathyrns splendens (I under-stand it grows well with them undercultivation. We do not seem to under-stand its lequirements here well enoughto grow it to perfection) by using itspollen on the sweet pea or vice this part of the country its naturalperiod of blooming seems to eaily. GEORGE S BARTLETT. quite so white, but white enough to havea telling effect among other law-growingplants with foliage of a more somberhue. This plant keepsits foliage all Win-ter with a dense crop of pure whiteflowers in the Spring. Seeds are ripenow. Sow at once and AVinter in framesafter potting off. They will be in nicecondition by the Spring in three or four-inch pots. White Hollyhocks.—Last years cropof whitehollyhocks wlllhaveripened seedby this tme, which may be gathered, anda goodly portion sown immediately, tohave plants ready for Spring sales amifor planting out. Spring-sown seed, ifsown early and the plants kept in agrowing condition, will give a later cropof flowers than those from Fall sownseed. The White Perennial Candytufts are not so well known as they might because they flower during aperiod when there is an abundance ofthings in bloom
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