The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . ng that the private gardeneror the amateur wants. JOHN BIRNIE. Growing Narcissus Bulbs in America. Editor Florists Exchange: With your permission I will give a little of myexperience with the narcissus. About 16 years ago Ibecame interested in the subject and procured someten or twelve varieties of daffodils, including theEmperor, Empress, Horsefleldi, Sir Watkin and anumber of the white narcissi. All succeeded per-fectly on my soil—a heavy clay loam. Some yearsago I planted al
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . ng that the private gardeneror the amateur wants. JOHN BIRNIE. Growing Narcissus Bulbs in America. Editor Florists Exchange: With your permission I will give a little of myexperience with the narcissus. About 16 years ago Ibecame interested in the subject and procured someten or twelve varieties of daffodils, including theEmperor, Empress, Horsefleldi, Sir Watkin and anumber of the white narcissi. All succeeded per-fectly on my soil—a heavy clay loam. Some yearsago I planted all of these, except the Emperor, in among some evergreens where they grow andbloom without any attention whatever. We thinkthe Emnerftr is far the best of all we have ever seen,iUid I grow it with care as I do any other payingcrop and take up the bulbs every year. I engaged in growing it as an article of commercein this way: Twelve years ago when my little grand-daughter, Margaret Crawford, was a baby and wasabout to be baptized, I wanted to make her apresent, and finally decided that it should be one. The I,ate James Wolfe. (See Obit-uary March 19 /sBwe.) Emperor daffodil bulb for each letter In her plan was to continue to grow them for her withthe expectation that when she becomes a young ladyand wants to go to college, her Emperor daffodilswill pay her expenses. Although there is almost nomarket here for the flowers, we allow none to go towaste. Last year we had 1500, and they were allgiven away. We have sent the blooms over 500miles in good condition. Without effort, almost, Ihave sold quite a few bulbs so that I have hadseveral dollars of daffodil money to turn over to thelittle girl annually for some time. Notwithstandingthese sales her stock of bulbs measured eight bushelswhen taken up last June. In all these years I havenever known one to be diseased or to be attackedby any insect enemy. I have had hyacinths andtulips eaten by field mice, but never a
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