The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . n as good forcingsubjects are the forsythias, in both suspensa andviridissima, the Cornus Mas, flowering almonds,double-ttowering peaches, cherries, apples, and theearly flowering spiraeas. Mock oranges, snowballs, the tall deutzias, exo-chorda and shrubs like these that flower late are poorstock to force, and really are in not much demandwhen they are forced. The best time to have these ?oddities in bloom is not just at Christmas or holidaytime, but either before or after thes
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . n as good forcingsubjects are the forsythias, in both suspensa andviridissima, the Cornus Mas, flowering almonds,double-ttowering peaches, cherries, apples, and theearly flowering spiraeas. Mock oranges, snowballs, the tall deutzias, exo-chorda and shrubs like these that flower late are poorstock to force, and really are in not much demandwhen they are forced. The best time to have these ?oddities in bloom is not just at Christmas or holidaytime, but either before or after these periods, whentheie is not such a glut of flowers as there is at fes-tival times. And the best time to set out the shrubsis now. Ilex Crenata for Hedges. In a recent issue of The Florists Exchange oneof the advertisers calls attention to the desirabilityof the Japanese holly. Ilex crenata, as a hedge plant,and in this I fully agree with him. It is one ofthe neatest foliaged evergreens there is, its leavesbeing of a shining green, small and slightly berries some of the plants bear are small, Pyrus Malus Florlbunda. happens in May, there is no use in expecting to seethe seeds sprout. There are too many nurserymen who let seed sow-ing and tree planting go until sales are over, whichis a great mistake. It is the first work that should bedone in Spring. Really the Fall should see more of the sowmg ofseeds than it does. In what nature does, there is alesson for us all. The vast forests of white pine andother evergreens and trees have resulted from seedsthat fall from the trees in Autumn. Unless wherethey fall in places too wet or too dry, the seeds growvery well when Spring comes. Look at the freshgrowth of white pine on some of the abandonedfarms of New England, whole forests of them! Yes,sow the seeds in frozen ground rather than do thesowing late in Spring. Forcing Shoots of Shrubs in Winter. Retail florists say there is a good trade to be donein the way of fo
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