. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . t horti-culture and floriculture are going to the dogs andthat we had all better at once economize, even to theclosing up our greenhouses. Is line with other stories that have been told aboutbeginners in vegetable growing and tlieir sometimesstrange point of view, or what seems strange to theinitiated, is the story of a man who was growing Po-tatoes and who was delighted with the healthy appear-ance of the stems and foliage. To his dismay, however,he discovered, upon scratchi
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . t horti-culture and floriculture are going to the dogs andthat we had all better at once economize, even to theclosing up our greenhouses. Is line with other stories that have been told aboutbeginners in vegetable growing and tlieir sometimesstrange point of view, or what seems strange to theinitiated, is the story of a man who was growing Po-tatoes and who was delighted with the healthy appear-ance of the stems and foliage. To his dismay, however,he discovered, upon scratching the soil away to see howthe tubers were developing, that the roots were infestedwith small white knots about the size of peas. He wasin much trepidation in case these were the symptomsof some dread disease until his hopes were reassuredby the timely visit of an neigliljor. Anotherfellow who had been informed that certain lady-birdswere friends of the cultivator, hunted around for asmany as he could collect, and brought them home tohis garden, where he planted them around the rootsof several [ (©bituar^ ]
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