. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. for easy planting, fourinches (ieep with groved extentions forsideboards, and with sutticient pipe be-neath to give a necessary bottom heatof 80 or degrees when closed in dur-ing severe weather. Four inches of cleansand or fine, pine sawdust should be usedfor planting. I prefei the latter, it iscleaner, not so hard on the hands andgives equally good results. Uefore planting, an inch or two of thebottom roots should be cut off to allowfree admission of water, and the pips i
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. for easy planting, fourinches (ieep with groved extentions forsideboards, and with sutticient pipe be-neath to give a necessary bottom heatof 80 or degrees when closed in dur-ing severe weather. Four inches of cleansand or fine, pine sawdust should be usedfor planting. I prefei the latter, it iscleaner, not so hard on the hands andgives equally good results. Uefore planting, an inch or two of thebottom roots should be cut off to allowfree admission of water, and the pips in-setted an inch apart in rows three inchesdistant, pressing the sawdust in firmlybut leaving the top of the pips thoroughly every day with warmwater wheie handy and keep the saw-dust wet at all times, syringing thefloors and beneath the benches as wellto supply atmospheric moisture. Thepips must be kept shaded until the foli-age and buds are well drawn up, whenthe shade should be gradually removedto allow them to harden off as theflowers expand. Good shades can bemade by forming a square of four laths. is the most satisfactory one for forcing,though there are many other varietiesincluding one with rose-colored flowerswhich the smallness of its bells excludesas a marketable or forcing variety, how-ever. Three-year-old Hamburg or Rus-sian pips produce the best results forgeneral forcing. These may be keptfrozen in cold storage, packed in wetsand or moss in convenient sized boxesfor an indefinite period until required ;llowiiig about 21 days to bringthem to perfection after planting. Thisis the stock that supplies our marketfrom Easter until the holidays, betweenwhich dates the newly imported stock isused and forces equally good in from 21to 25 days. Where there is no cold storage at handand valley is desired for the holidays,Berlin pips should be used exclusively, asthey are the only ones that come withgood foliage at that season. For laterwork, however, the
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