. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Gerbera Jamesoni. As ?jrown .a Thos. Rochford's, Bro.\bourne, Eng. is, where to get the best pips. One can- not hope to have success without first- class pips. Some get good lily of the valley from cheap pips, but I cannot I must have the best pips. I do not al- ways get the best by paying the highest price, the top price stock from one dealer often being not equal to those at lower figures from another man. I find it impossible to get all the high grade stock I want from one firm. Very much of it comes like this
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Gerbera Jamesoni. As ?jrown .a Thos. Rochford's, Bro.\bourne, Eng. is, where to get the best pips. One can- not hope to have success without first- class pips. Some get good lily of the valley from cheap pips, but I cannot I must have the best pips. I do not al- ways get the best by paying the highest price, the top price stock from one dealer often being not equal to those at lower figures from another man. I find it impossible to get all the high grade stock I want from one firm. Very much of it comes like this (illustrating with a bundle), fine pips on the outside, but when the bundle is opened about lialf in the center is inferior and weak stock that will not produce saleable flowers. When I receive such stock I invariably send it back and increase my order with reliable growers, or hunt uo others on whom I find I can rely. I import direct from the growers of what is known as Berlin pips. All my stock is brought over in cold storage. This adds to the cost, but I find it pays, as the pips arrive in better condition. The ideal pip is to my thinking not the larg- est, but one rather slender, which rnust have a good shoulder or base. This I consider very important. In preparing the stock for cold stor- age I find it pays to repack it, although when received it is well packed. I take it out and add sand and moss and also moisten it, for if it dries out in cold storage the cases become musty and one is apt to find mould when they are un- packed, which is abundant cause for waste that shows in the forcing. Every precaution should be taken so that tht waste is as small as possible. With the best pips my waste is about five per cent. With the cheaper, second grade stock it runs from 10 to as high as 20 per cent. It required 10 bales of moss and four cartloads of sand to repack the importation of last season. I try to have enough stock on hand over summer to last until the middle of January o
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