. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. rely free by its use. Not a scale was leftilive. The everlasting rains of the Summer and Autumnhave given way to several weeks of hot, dryweather. If evergrecms are moved now they musthave drenchings of water for a few days days will soon be along, and then with warmsoil roots form quickly. Professor Massey states that he once measured thetrunk of a crape myrtle at the old Johnson place,Edenton, N. C, which girthed eight feet at twofeet from the ground. The white fl
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. rely free by its use. Not a scale was leftilive. The everlasting rains of the Summer and Autumnhave given way to several weeks of hot, dryweather. If evergrecms are moved now they musthave drenchings of water for a few days days will soon be along, and then with warmsoil roots form quickly. Professor Massey states that he once measured thetrunk of a crape myrtle at the old Johnson place,Edenton, N. C, which girthed eight feet at twofeet from the ground. The white flowered one,he adds, never makes the large size the others do,being merely a large shrub at best. Golden leaved California privet is deemed hardto keep in its golden habit, because of the greenshoots it will make. If these green shootsare persistently cut away as soon as they formthere is no trouble in keeping the shrub toits desired character; and it is highly ornamental. Objection to Golden Glow Rudbeckia is sometimesmade because of the top heaviness of the flowerheads. The double helianthus, multiflorus plenus,. Abies (Tsuga) Williamson! is free from this objection but it blooms later inthe season than Golden Glow. It is a good thing,though. Pinus resinosa, our red pine, is one of the hand-somest trees in cultivation, and far too rare at thepresent time. It is of heavy growth, like the Aus-trian pine, but unlike it its needles are soft anddrooping; a great recommendation. Cephalotaxus is not a yew. though sometimescalled Japanese yew, and it approaches the yewin appearance and relationship. It forms a smalltree of spreading habit, and one very much admiredwhen in vigorous growth. It is an evergreen thatsells well. Preservation of Acorns. There is such a demand springing up for oaksthat nurserymen are now exerting themselves tokeep on hand a stock of good varieties, for whateverthey raise is fairly sure to sell. In addition to thecommon species, such as the black, red, scarlet
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