. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. AUie 2 T. E. Waters. Frank Pasternik. attractive dark red foliage makes an effective contrast to the very graceful pyramids, of long duration, and do not drop so quickly as in most other va- rieties. It requires the same treat- ment as the ordinary Primula Sinen- sis, but is a taller plant, and the stronger whorls require staking, the plants sometimes attaining to a height of two feet. There are a number of varieties, chiefly distinguished by their color, of which the Blue is the most rare. Crimson, Red and
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. AUie 2 T. E. Waters. Frank Pasternik. attractive dark red foliage makes an effective contrast to the very graceful pyramids, of long duration, and do not drop so quickly as in most other va- rieties. It requires the same treat- ment as the ordinary Primula Sinen- sis, but is a taller plant, and the stronger whorls require staking, the plants sometimes attaining to a height of two feet. There are a number of varieties, chiefly distinguished by their color, of which the Blue is the most rare. Crimson, Red and Rose, Sal- mon Pink. White and Giant White are the other colors. Stellata Double Crimson, is a very attractive variety, with rich crimson, well formed flow- ers and elegantly cut foliage, and most useful for table decoration. Irrigfatlon on Old Eastern Farms. Portion of a paper read by Burnet Land- reth at the annual meeting of the American Seed Trade Association, Niagara Falls, N. June 23. Every reader of leading western ag- ricultural papers, and still more so ev- ery traveler journeying west of the Rocky Mountains, sometimes east of the mountains, is more or less famil- iar with the interesting processes and magical advantages of irrigation on what formerly were dry plains, once districts abandoned to sage brush, cac- tus, horned toads and rattlesnakes. The national government has ex- pended $14,000,000 in the three states of Arizona, California and Nevada, $6,000,000 being for the construction of dams, in addition to which the Salt River dam now building will cost $3,500,000 when completed. Under the terms of the congression- al appropriation known as the recla- mation fund and of the Carey act, the Department of the Interior of the national government has in seven years expended $45,000,000 in the reclamation service, that is the stor- age, diversion and development of wa- ter in addition to giving to the arid states 1,000,000 acres each of govern- ment lands provision
Size: 1276px × 1958px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectfloriculture, bookyea
