. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 28 The Florists^ Review Mabch 0. 1922. ODCN WCTEOSyy^ DEADEIi6 selves. Ai)d we found that the mos' positive way is to use tobacco dust. Th. snail appears to dry up the moment i; comes in contact with the dust. Th tobacco dust is sure death. The 8lim< on the snail absorbs the tobacco and tht effect is immediate. This remedy cai be used freely, because it will not dt stroy plant life. Try it and Bee the re suit. Fairview Greenhouses. DO EASTER LILIES PAY? Does it pay to grow lilies, er does it not! The price of giganteum lilies, which are the most
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 28 The Florists^ Review Mabch 0. 1922. ODCN WCTEOSyy^ DEADEIi6 selves. Ai)d we found that the mos' positive way is to use tobacco dust. Th. snail appears to dry up the moment i; comes in contact with the dust. Th tobacco dust is sure death. The 8lim< on the snail absorbs the tobacco and tht effect is immediate. This remedy cai be used freely, because it will not dt stroy plant life. Try it and Bee the re suit. Fairview Greenhouses. DO EASTER LILIES PAY? Does it pay to grow lilies, er does it not! The price of giganteum lilies, which are the most popular variety, has, like the price of the French Boman hya- cinths, been gradually advancing until, where we used to get them at $40 per thousand for the size 7 to 9, we now pay $ for a case of 300. But the cost is not so much the cause of the question as the number of buds and blooms. Where we used to get an average of from three to seven buds and blooms, we now get two to four, or less than 300 buds and blooms to 100 bulbs. Besides, whereas there used to be less than five per cent diseased stock in Japanese giganteums, now we expect twenty per cent, and in some cases fifty per cent of the total bulbs are diseased. Here at St. Catharines, Ont., a case of 7 to 9 bulbs costs $, or better than $57 with freight, exchange and cus- toms tax. This is an average of 19 cents per bulb. Now, if 2,000 bulbs, potted, are worth $500 and twenty per cent of these are lost on account of disease, leaving 1,600 plants, an average of three buds or blooms to a plant, making a total of 4,800 buds or blooms, if sold at a top market price of 25 cents, will produce returns of $1,200. Upon deducting the $500, one is left $700 as the return on a bench 6x100 feet, which is the space needed from Novembfix.:l, when lilies are potted, until roughly six weeks be- fore Easter, or March 1 this year. Dur- ing the remainder of growing time to finish this stock double the space will be required for h
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