. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 399 an accuser which canuot be bribed. The cost of this thermometer is ^30, and the average florist would not feel like sprink- ling them through the greenhouses any thicker than absolutely necessary. A beautiful amaryllis—white striped with rose, was in bloom and bore the name of Desire d' Artoise. Superintendent Pfister has a superb strain of cinerarias from seed of his own selection. He calls it the White House strain. You may look but you cannot buy. The halls and rooms in the execu
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 399 an accuser which canuot be bribed. The cost of this thermometer is ^30, and the average florist would not feel like sprink- ling them through the greenhouses any thicker than absolutely necessary. A beautiful amaryllis—white striped with rose, was in bloom and bore the name of Desire d' Artoise. Superintendent Pfister has a superb strain of cinerarias from seed of his own selection. He calls it the White House strain. You may look but you cannot buy. The halls and rooms in the executive mansion are kept decorated with palms and blooming plants placed at intervals on suitable stands. They are replaced with fresh plants from the conservatories as often as necessary to keep them in best condition. Prices of Bedding Plants. A correspondent writes asking if any plan has been adopted by the various florists' clubs to regulate the prices of bedding plants the coming spring. We understand that the Des Moines, la., club attempted something of the kind last year, but did not meet with very gratifying success in maintaining scale prices, and that they will not make any attempt to arrange a scale for this year. We seriously doubt the ability of any organization to successfully regulate the prices of plants and flowers. The differ- ence in quality of the products of various growers would render unjust any uniform scale, and if the stock should be graded by an inspector—as is done with grain, etc.—we fear that the inspector would suffer bodily harm in the controversy which would follow each inspection, for we have yet to meet the florist who will admit that he grows stock which is sev- eral grades lower in quality than that of his neighbor. Diseased Eupatorium. Ed. Am. Florist.—I forward by mail branches cut from my eupatoriums which were planted in the greenhouse last Octo- ber. The roots are healthy, the plants producing green buds on dead stems, as you will
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