. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 272 The American Florist. Mar. f, sunlight in large houses unless night moisture settles on the leaves and early ventilation is neglected. Watch this carefully as the season advances or the plants will be injured; owing to the small size of the pots these are usually grown in, some feeding will be required when they are finishing. Genistas for Easter. If the directions previously given have been carried out, no further pinch- ing will be needed and the late plants can go straight away for flowering. The roots will
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 272 The American Florist. Mar. f, sunlight in large houses unless night moisture settles on the leaves and early ventilation is neglected. Watch this carefully as the season advances or the plants will be injured; owing to the small size of the pots these are usually grown in, some feeding will be required when they are finishing. Genistas for Easter. If the directions previously given have been carried out, no further pinch- ing will be needed and the late plants can go straight away for flowering. The roots will have taken a good hold of the new soil and a little feeding may be given, increasing this by degrees until the flowers show color. Standard plants like that shown in the accompanying il- lustration are best for not being trimmed or clipped in too closely; the plants are Horticulture in Alaska. Through the courtesy of Oscar Gard, a business man of Skagway, Alaska, we are enabled to present a number of il- lustrations of fruit, flowers and vege- tables grown in Alaska. Mr. Gard, who is a native of Ohio, but has been for some time a resident of Alaska, revis- ited his old home this winter and con- tinued his trip to New York. While in Gotham Mr. Gard met some people who seemed surprised that he did not wear a bearskin cap, and go generally clothed in the skins of animals, and being of a humorous temperament he enjoyed the joke. Quite by accident, he was met by our representative, and on his return to Skagway he sent the photo- graphs here shown. It would appear that the horticultural possibilities of that part of Alaska are very THE AUDITORIUM, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. Where Flower Show Will be Held Next May. more graceful when allowed to make a more or less natural growth which would be out of place in the ordinary bush shaped plant as grown for market. Any- one desiring to grow such plants should select young specimens with as straight shoots as possible and run them st
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