. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Deckmbbb 1, 1921 The Rorists^ Review 39 Specific Medicine, ; Apply externally. W. E. King. BIG STOEM HITS BOSTON. Sunday, November 27, rain fell steadily all day in greater Boston. North of that city it came in the form of snow. The temperature from 5 a. m., November 27, until 10 a. m. on the following day was several degrees below freezing, and with rain falling steadily all this time and turning to ice as it fell, trees and shrubs were soon covered with a heavy coating of ice, the heaviest known in the memory of the oldest horticul
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Deckmbbb 1, 1921 The Rorists^ Review 39 Specific Medicine, ; Apply externally. W. E. King. BIG STOEM HITS BOSTON. Sunday, November 27, rain fell steadily all day in greater Boston. North of that city it came in the form of snow. The temperature from 5 a. m., November 27, until 10 a. m. on the following day was several degrees below freezing, and with rain falling steadily all this time and turning to ice as it fell, trees and shrubs were soon covered with a heavy coating of ice, the heaviest known in the memory of the oldest horticulturist. The damage to trees in the Arnold Arboretum, on Bostom Common, in the public gardens, in parkways and streets, on private estates and in woodlands is so tremendous as to be almost beyond belief. Many thousands of splendid trees, both deciduous and evergreen, are ruined and a great number of others badly disfigured. The damage is so serious that it will take nearly an entire month on the larger estates and in the parks just partly to clean up and repair the damage. Telephone and electric light wires and poles were down in all directions. A large part of the city was without light November 28 and many streets all but impassable. Great snow storms have in some years done considerable damage, but not one a small fractional part of what has been done on this occasion. Florists have escaped quite well, but business at the wholesale markets November 28 was exceedingly light, and with transportation facilities badly dis- organized, many growers and buyers did not come to the market at all. This storm amounts to a real public calamity. W. N. C. GERANIUMS DAMPING OFF. I have been in business twenty-two years and have never had trouble with geranium cuttings until last year, when I began losing plants by the hundreds. I never had better stock to start with, using 500 Eicard and 600 Poitevine, and inside of four days they turned black and soon I had hardly one left. I whitewashed t
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