. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. That wasconfirmed by my own experience of twenty oddyears ago. The article states: Lily growers from all overthe world have stood dazed, intoxicated with themarvels of beauty and the [I-rfiimcs of this acreagelilies in full bloom. Some of the dealers inthe East ha<ve tried them. I asked one man, andhe shook his head sadly and said that he would nottry any more of them. It is told in the magazines how one pleasant even-ing Burbank was walking along a Held by some ver-and he
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. That wasconfirmed by my own experience of twenty oddyears ago. The article states: Lily growers from all overthe world have stood dazed, intoxicated with themarvels of beauty and the [I-rfiimcs of this acreagelilies in full bloom. Some of the dealers inthe East ha<ve tried them. I asked one man, andhe shook his head sadly and said that he would nottry any more of them. It is told in the magazines how one pleasant even-ing Burbank was walking along a Held by some ver-and he detected an odor which he traced backto the plant from which it emanated. He savedverbenas. When I w;is down inthe seed fields of C. C. Morse & Compay at Gilroy,at the end of the Santa Clara Valley, California, Isaid to Mr. Landrum, tin- principal there, as wewere driving along: By the way, have you got anyas? He said. I dont know; 1bothered about them. I said, In my youngdays the Sylph type was always fragrant in thewhites; that I am certain of. We Jumped out ofthe wagon, and we hadnt gone ten feet before I. Willow Basket for Plants Bayersdorfer & Co. stooped down and picked up a white one. It hadfragrance. One other matter is about the blue rose. Now,if there is one thing that horticulturists have dream-ed over for many years it is to obtain a blue is an axiom that there are three colors notfound in varieties of one species, namely, a true blue,a true yellow and a true scarlet. You will get themto a certain extent in the asters, and to a certain ex-tent in hyacinths, but nothing like a true scarlet, ablue or a yellow in varieties of any one species. Wehave yellow in the rose and a red that is nearlyscarlet, so that all we want now to complete thetrinity of colors is a blue. In one of these talksHarwood asks Burbank: Did you ever considerthe producing of a blue rose? Oh, yes, he you think it is possible? and he said: Oh, itis a very simple matter, from what
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