. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American \l\C^OR\^ HtG\^ e,\.OOU\\^G out O^ QOORS M ??SKUOXS\Qt,' X^HWiOVilH ?0R"\, UNSS, figures outside. Since warm weather set in we have dispensed with the cloth ex- cept on windy days, which, by the way, are very numerous on Cape Cod, and are by far the worst enemy we have to con- tend with in growing the Victoria Regia. When once established in its new quar- ters the leaves rapidly increased in size until they reached a diameter of six feet, and June 17, five months and four days aft
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American \l\C^OR\^ HtG\^ e,\.OOU\\^G out O^ QOORS M ??SKUOXS\Qt,' X^HWiOVilH ?0R"\, UNSS, figures outside. Since warm weather set in we have dispensed with the cloth ex- cept on windy days, which, by the way, are very numerous on Cape Cod, and are by far the worst enemy we have to con- tend with in growing the Victoria Regia. When once established in its new quar- ters the leaves rapidly increased in size until they reached a diameter of six feet, and June 17, five months and four days after sowing the seed, the first flower opened. I'rom that date until the pres- ent time, July 9, it has flowered every third or fourth night. The flowers are from ten to twelve inches in diameter and of a beautiful creamy white color the first night, while opening on the after- noon of the second day they rapidly chaufje to a deep pink and soon start on their downward journey to the bottom of the pond. Since flowering no increase in size of leaf has been observed, rather otherwise, still considerable gain is made in the size of the plant, which is now twenty-three feet in diameter and still increasing. The accompanying illustration is from a photograph of the pond taken June 21, which shows a little boy 3 years old seated on the leaf, his weight making little or no impression on it. While we had some success last year in our first attempt at growing the Vic- toria Regia outside, having obtained two or three flowers, this year promises much better results, and bids fair to give us three clear months of continuous flow- ering. James Brydon. Berlin Markets, The former manner of using the public scjuares of the town as markets, with such displays of vegetables, flowers, fish and meat as the day would have to offer, has been discarded for the past two years by the municipality, which has provided public halls where farmers and venders had to confine their activity under the supervisio
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