. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Pot Lilies Giganteum, 3 to 6 blooms in 5-inch pots, 12 to 20 inches tall, good foliage and large flowers, 30 cents per flower and bud. Just right for Easter. Order at once to insure your supply. Orders for $ or more, packing free. For less, 10 per cent for packing. Cash, Please. Also heavy 7-mch Teddy Jr. Ferns at $ each. H. S. BRANDT, York, Pa. clean. After the seeds are dry they should be sterilized in five per cent formalin for two and one-half minutes and thoroughly washed several times with boiled water that has been cooled. Transfer
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Pot Lilies Giganteum, 3 to 6 blooms in 5-inch pots, 12 to 20 inches tall, good foliage and large flowers, 30 cents per flower and bud. Just right for Easter. Order at once to insure your supply. Orders for $ or more, packing free. For less, 10 per cent for packing. Cash, Please. Also heavy 7-mch Teddy Jr. Ferns at $ each. H. S. BRANDT, York, Pa. clean. After the seeds are dry they should be sterilized in five per cent formalin for two and one-half minutes and thoroughly washed several times with boiled water that has been cooled. Transfer to Higher Temperature. The seeds are then put into petri dishes or other covered flat vessels on filter paper supported by wet cotton, which furnishes an abundance of mois- ture for germination. These vessels of seeds are kept at a constant tempera- ture of about 41 degrees for after-ripen- ing, which takes 100 to 110 days. This after-ripening period can be shortened ten days by drying slightly and mois- tening again the seeds at about the forty-fifth day. When the coats have split open and the hypocotyls are one- eighth inch long, the seedlings are transferred to pans of leaf-mold and kept at 60 degrees. These pans are pre- pared in the ordinary way, using leaf- mold and sand. If a glass plate and paper are placed over the pan to protect the seedlings from drying and from di- rect light, the hypocotyls soon penetrate the soil and erect the cotyledons. When the seedlings are about one and one-half inches high, touching the glass plate, ! they are put into separate small pots or beds containing relatively more sandy soil and less leaf-mold. One should, however, transfer the seeds when the coats have split open from the germina- tor at 41 degrees direct to beds at 60 de- grees, if they are protected for the first few days. Though these seeds have been ger- minated every month in the year, one can take advantage of the temperature conditions by placing them in the ger- minator abo
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