. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 180 The American Florist. Aug. 13, take first place as the best stock for grafting or budding roses. It is a little tender and not adapted for the northern states. Any rose grower who would like to try it out and will write to the office of foreign seed and plant introduction will have it sent to him free of charge. An ipo- moea that had been found hard to propagate was rapidly increased by sticking the cuttings into sweet pota- toes. The ipomceas, being closely al- lied, received nourishment until they took root
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 180 The American Florist. Aug. 13, take first place as the best stock for grafting or budding roses. It is a little tender and not adapted for the northern states. Any rose grower who would like to try it out and will write to the office of foreign seed and plant introduction will have it sent to him free of charge. An ipo- moea that had been found hard to propagate was rapidly increased by sticking the cuttings into sweet pota- toes. The ipomceas, being closely al- lied, received nourishment until they took root and were able to sustain themselves. The native habitat of the peach has been found to be northern China. F. N. Meyer, an intrepid explorer and plant collector of the department, was the first to bring live plants of this wild peach out of China. Amygdalus davi- diana from China, is the best stock for peaches, being a very strong grower—as much as nine feet in one season. Ilex cornuta is a pretty holly, also from China. New viburnum loni- ceras, tamarixes, forsythias, and ?. host of other interesting and valuable plants are being grown and sent out from here. A beautiful juniper, called Juniperus chinensis columinarls is a real gem, a very upright, symmetrical tree with glaucous foliage. It is ex- tremely hardy, one of the best orna- mental evergreens. Great precautions are taken to pre- vent the importation of insect pfests or diseases with the foreign plants. Ev- ery seed, scion, or package of plants has to bear the most minute inspec- tion, is fumigated and kept for a re- quired time in separate, specially screened apartments in qTiarantined greenhouses, so as to be sure that nothing harmful appears or is devel- oped. The inspection chambers are as elaborately fitted up as those of a hospital, with their steam sterilizers; commodious refrigerators to keep the stock dormant -until it can be exam- ined are necessary, and there is much interesting detail that cannot be de- sc
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