. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo6. The American Florist. 873 Another of the rarer alyssums is A. spinosum, a drawf plant, only three to four inches high, rarelj' over that. The small lanceolate leaves are covered with a silvery white tomentum and the nu- merous, thin, hard, wiry branchlets are wheel (G) operated by the engine. The inner sides of the box contain a cor- responding set of spikes. The soil is placed upon canvas (B), and conveyed to a point (H), where it drops into the pulverizing box. After passing. BEDDING AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo6. The American Florist. 873 Another of the rarer alyssums is A. spinosum, a drawf plant, only three to four inches high, rarelj' over that. The small lanceolate leaves are covered with a silvery white tomentum and the nu- merous, thin, hard, wiry branchlets are wheel (G) operated by the engine. The inner sides of the box contain a cor- responding set of spikes. The soil is placed upon canvas (B), and conveyed to a point (H), where it drops into the pulverizing box. After passing. BEDDING AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL. CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, D. C. armed with short little spines, growing harder with age, hence the name spin- osum. The flowers are white and pro- duced in dense little corymbose racemes. It is a very floriferous and pretty dwarf perennial from northern Europe and per- fectly hardy here, good in any place ex- cept low, moist ground and not at all difficult to handle. A. spinosum does not seed very freely, but when fresh seed is obtainable it germinates inside of a few weeks. In the early stages of growth the seedlings should be guarded against too much moisture, damping off being one of their weak points. Spring cut- tings will root nicely in gentle bottom heat, and this is the best and easiest way to increase or keep up the stock. J. B. K. Budlong's New Soil Pulverizer. A. H. Budlong has recently invented a neat time saving device in the form of a machine to pulverize soil for green- house purposes. This invention may ul- timately result in the entire abolition of the present irksome method of pulveriz- ing soil by means of continual handling. The contrivance is simplicity itself and was erected at the comparatively small cost of $400, including a gasoline engine of large size and other mechanical ap- pliances. In its simplicity, however, lies its strength, as there is nothing compli- cated about the machine to cause trou- ble at a critical moment. The pulverizer measures about 1
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