. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgog. The American Florist, 169 / Bringing: Lilies Into Bloom for Easter. Details vary considerably in the meth- ods of growers perhaps equally success- ful with Easter lilies, and in this article we do not care to disparage any favorite detail of any other grower but merely outline the scheme that has been most successful with ourselves. In the first place we have come to de- pend most largely upon Lilium giganteum (Japanese), as we find we can depend better upon the bulbs coming true to name. We have not been as
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. jgog. The American Florist, 169 / Bringing: Lilies Into Bloom for Easter. Details vary considerably in the meth- ods of growers perhaps equally success- ful with Easter lilies, and in this article we do not care to disparage any favorite detail of any other grower but merely outline the scheme that has been most successful with ourselves. In the first place we have come to de- pend most largely upon Lilium giganteum (Japanese), as we find we can depend better upon the bulbs coming true to name. We have not been as successful with L. multiflorum, the bulbs that have come to us being mixed. The show. If the plants are put into too cool a temperature they will be found hard to start up again and bring into bloom in time for Easter. Usually it will be better not to vary the temperature much until the buds are an inch or an inch and a half long. Plants that are not much more than showing above the soil now should be placed at the warm end of the house. We neither feed our plants nor shade the houses they are in. They should be frequently syringed to keep off the lice and for green we spray with some good liquid insecticide about once a week. If a green fly once aet«ally shows '/'. ^ ^.,. ^.:, -am n^s "^ '^'M^hy^-:'*^^ ' "1^ liSt I^F" ^K^Kr<aSW *r"^ *«?? Mf^;/ ^^ • ' >'/. K9 'd 1 k. ~ V > - /F 9& $ m :? ^ X^. ' X ' (s ONE OF THE GREENHOUSES AT THE ROSERY, KANSAS CITY, MO. true L. multiflorum, however, is a grand variety and to be recommended if the bulbs can be guaranteed to come true in any large proportion of an order. L. Formosum is also an admirable lily but varies like L. multiflorum and we find that under the same treatment the plants will vary from IS inches to five feet in height. We usually plant the bulbs in Novem- ber. They can be planted earlier, but with no material advantage. December planting will also bring good lilies for Eas
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