. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . ght is wrong, even in the besthouse, but dont, on that account, keepputting it off aud off, for it is too im-portant. Whether you fumigate orMiray doesnt mutter as long as you keepit up. Only by so doing will you gettile most out ot your crps. Good flow-ers and green fly dont go together, andthe older the houses the more attentionmust you pay to the insect pests. Poinsettias Some one w-ho ouybt to know said thatPoinsettias are going to bring a bigprice this coming Christmas.
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . ght is wrong, even in the besthouse, but dont, on that account, keepputting it off aud off, for it is too im-portant. Whether you fumigate orMiray doesnt mutter as long as you keepit up. Only by so doing will you gettile most out ot your crps. Good flow-ers and green fly dont go together, andthe older the houses the more attentionmust you pay to the insect pests. Poinsettias Some one w-ho ouybt to know said thatPoinsettias are going to bring a bigprice this coming Christmas. Those ofus having a lot to get rid of surely hopeso, for it takes coal to keep the Poin-settia house agoing and we all appreciatewhat coal means this year. Keep thetemperature near the tiO deg. point, andwhat is as important is to keep it even,to tprevent 50 deg. prevailing one nightand the next. Happy the man whocan afford a whole house of Poinsettiasand keep the temperature, as well aseverything else, just to suit them. That,after all, is the only way to grow any-thing and grow it right. It makes the. Poinsettias in different stages of gro^vth, showing a neat way of staking them with wires They dont require a warm house, can beplanted right into the old Mum soil, andwhen in flower they always sell. Plantslifted now and benched wont bringmany flowers before February, and willbe at their best during March and April;but no matter what else you would benchat this time it would almost take as longto amount to anything. Just bear inmind that green fly, when once allowedto become well estaiblished, will ruinyour Pansies, so keep these away. Itmight be well to allow enough space be-tween the rows of the plants to plantGladioli later on; that is, if you haveenough head room. Table Ferns It is still time to pot up another lotof small table ferns; in fact, this canbe done at almost any time of the average florist uses small ferns right along. But dont botherwi
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