. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. HETHER or not palms can be grown on a commercial scale under the conditions of southern California de- pends on the ability of the growers to "estab- lish" the plants without bottom heat. That bot- tom heat is necessary has been the belief of most plantsmen, both on the coast and in the east, but on his return to Philadel- phia, after a recent inspection of what is being done in the vicinity of Los Angeles, so good a judge as Jacob D. Eisele made the statement that the experiments of Bassett & Washburn seem in a fair way to revolution
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. HETHER or not palms can be grown on a commercial scale under the conditions of southern California de- pends on the ability of the growers to "estab- lish" the plants without bottom heat. That bot- tom heat is necessary has been the belief of most plantsmen, both on the coast and in the east, but on his return to Philadel- phia, after a recent inspection of what is being done in the vicinity of Los Angeles, so good a judge as Jacob D. Eisele made the statement that the experiments of Bassett & Washburn seem in a fair way to revolutionize palm production for the trade in the United States. The subject is of special interest now, since the plant quar- antine has shut off the importation of palms from Belgium and from the finishing factories of the British Isles, but it is worth while noting that the experi- ments at Sierra Madre were begun in 1913, long before the quar- antine was thought of. Ante-Belltun Ways. Probably everyone who keeps in any way in touch with trade affairs knows that one of the specific objec- tions to the general quarantine when it was proposed, was that it would close the channels through which the trade and the American people had been accustomed to ob- tain their supply of_ palms. Of course palms can be grown from seeds in green- houses, but the produc- tion of a plant of sala- ble size is a matter ,.of years. At pre-war prices for building ma- terial, fuel and labor no great number of growers persisted in the business; by far the greater part of the stock handled in the "United States has been imported. Before the Germans overran Belgium more palm seeds germinated in the vicinity of Ghent and Bruges than in all the rest of the world, commercially speaking. As soon as the seedlings were established in 21^-inch pots they became salable and from then on they might, as they grew, change hands several times. But with each shift they had the accelerating assistance of more or less bot
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