. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Florist. Jan. i^f. A fine spike of Lilium candidum wasrecorded and photographed, bearing 22open flowers and 13 buds, a remarl<abledevelopment for candidum. The Moccasin flower Cypripediiuiispectabile, and Trillium grandiflorumwere recommended as suitable wildplants to grow for flowering at Easter. Seventy-five ladies and gentlemenvisited E. D. Sturtevant at Borden-town, N. J., to see the Victoria regia inbloom. La Triumphante, Phcebus and WilliamHolmes were among the new chrysan-themums. These names conjure up oldmemories. To Be Done
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Florist. Jan. i^f. A fine spike of Lilium candidum wasrecorded and photographed, bearing 22open flowers and 13 buds, a remarl<abledevelopment for candidum. The Moccasin flower Cypripediiuiispectabile, and Trillium grandiflorumwere recommended as suitable wildplants to grow for flowering at Easter. Seventy-five ladies and gentlemenvisited E. D. Sturtevant at Borden-town, N. J., to see the Victoria regia inbloom. La Triumphante, Phcebus and WilliamHolmes were among the new chrysan-themums. These names conjure up oldmemories. To Be Done Now. IN THE GREENHOUSES. Sow Thunbergia alata early to havegood plants for filling baskets in May. Tagetes signata pumila is one of thefinest annuals for bedding. It shouldbe included in the seed order but notsown too early. Look over the stock of cannas andpot up any that are to be grown fordecoration this way. Carnations, and other plants peculiarlyliable to fungoid diseases, should alwaysbe propagated in clean sand as a pre-ventive at the CARNATIONS AT JOHN E. HAINES, BETHLEHEM, PA. Wooton, the fine residence of Geo. , was figured, with descriptivenotes, in The Americ. Florist. Robert Craig was instructing readershow to grow chrysanthemums underglass in summer, in the fashion nowalmost universal. Marechal Niel was one of the popularvarieties of roses for cutting for designand floral work generally. An itemized bill for a bouquet total-ing $ was sent in by a Portland,Ore., retailer. A floral design, depicting a spider andfly on a web of white Florida moss, at-tracted considerable attention at the Cin-cinnati exposition. A large consignment of hollies in pots,from Holland to a New York merchant,arrived too late for the Christmas trade,owing to bad weather. Very elaborate table decorations werearranged by the principal florists. The double white Phlox Drummondi,said to have originated in this offered as a novelty by Denary ofErfurt. The doubl
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