. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. re at their rootsat all times, a shading on sunny daysand a sprinkling overhead in dry weath-er to create a fair degree of atmospherichumidity. A thorough drying out atany time is death to ferns, and constantdrenching of the soil brings about thesame result, only the process is steadv temperature at any point be-tween 50 and 60 degrees in Midwinteris about right for a collection of vary-ing species. Small ferns, as everybody knows,come extremely handy in filling baske
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. re at their rootsat all times, a shading on sunny daysand a sprinkling overhead in dry weath-er to create a fair degree of atmospherichumidity. A thorough drying out atany time is death to ferns, and constantdrenching of the soil brings about thesame result, only the process is steadv temperature at any point be-tween 50 and 60 degrees in Midwinteris about right for a collection of vary-ing species. Small ferns, as everybody knows,come extremely handy in filling baskets,hampers, pans and dishes of all kinds,now so much liked as holiday gifts andin fair demand at all seasons of theyear It is now time to also providesuitable stock for this kind of ferns, yet in trays, are bestfor the purpose. They should now beordered; their price is Tow and their sizejust right for 2 or 2 1-2-inch pots. Theywill need no farther transplanting afterbeing potted up, until made use of asfilling material. Freesias. The season when the planting ofbulbs claims our attention is close at. C. S. Burge, First Vice-President American SeedTrade Association. hand. Freesias are among the first toarrive. Whenever it can be made pos-sible select a bench for their culturewith clear light overhead, in a _housewhere a steady heat of about 52 de-grees can easily be maintained in Win-ter. In a lower temperature freesiasbloom too late for a good market, andthe bulbs (for the following season)that are produced in a cool house, do notfully mature. The stock thus soon runsout and new bulbs will have to be pur-chased every year. , The expense in-volved in the annual buying of bulbsin itself is not so much a matter of re-gret as the growers inability in sucha case to work up a carefully selectedstrain of freesias, superior to anythinghe can buy. With freesias this is pos-sible to do; while any such attempt inthe case of other bulbs would only bea profitless exploit. As a
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