. The chrysanthemum, its culture for professional growers and amateurs; a practical treatise on its propagation, cultivation, training, raising for exhibition and market, hybridizing, origin and history. or strip of wood wrapped with papermay be nailed across the box inside to hold the stemsdown and retain them in position. The flowers mustbe packed sufficiently tight to keep them in positionwithout unduly pressing one another, any open spacebeing filled with wads of tissue paper. Above allthings, the flowers must be kept absolutely dry. Ifthe distance for transportation be long, it will be de
. The chrysanthemum, its culture for professional growers and amateurs; a practical treatise on its propagation, cultivation, training, raising for exhibition and market, hybridizing, origin and history. or strip of wood wrapped with papermay be nailed across the box inside to hold the stemsdown and retain them in position. The flowers mustbe packed sufficiently tight to keep them in positionwithout unduly pressing one another, any open spacebeing filled with wads of tissue paper. Above allthings, the flowers must be kept absolutely dry. Ifthe distance for transportation be long, it will be de-sirable to sprinkle the foliage lightly, or, better still,to spread a moistened newspaper over the stems in thecenter of the box; then cover the flowers with tissuepaper before closing the box. Take due care that inno place does the lid of the box come in contact withthe flowers. Some exhibitors, in place of using the pillow forsupport, nail cleats across the box and securely tie thestems thereto. It takes longer to pack in this way, butit gives added security and the method is worthy ofadoption if the flowers have to be transported a greatdistance and are left entirely to the tender mercies of. Fig. 16 EXHIBITION CHRYSANTHEMUMS PROPERLY PACKED FOR SHIPMENT EXHIBITING AXD JUDGING 63 the express companies. Flowers to be shown in shortstemmed classes may be safely and more closely packedby tying in this way. Fig. 16 shows a box of flowersso packed, which, after transportation for a thousandmiles, came out so perfect that they secured ninety-five out of a possible one hundred points. Another aidto maintaining freshness is to enclose the ends of thestems in rubber capped glass receptacles containingwater and made expressly for this purpose. Theflowers in the box illustrated in Fig. 16 had the endsof their stems wrapped around with wet moss securedwith paper tied around. A method of packing occasionally seen at theeastern exhibitions is with flowers standing erect inrows, each row
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