. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Ifi2 The American Florist. Aug. reliable dealer may prove much more satisfactory. Easter of 1903 falls upon a late date, being the second Sunday' in April, and there ought not to be any great difHculty in getting in the flowers on time; in fact there may lie some risk of getting them too early. The jjractice of potting up Easter lilies in small pots has frequently been referred to in these columns but is worth remembering on account of the saving in space and also in permitting the weeding outof any diseased or un
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Ifi2 The American Florist. Aug. reliable dealer may prove much more satisfactory. Easter of 1903 falls upon a late date, being the second Sunday' in April, and there ought not to be any great difHculty in getting in the flowers on time; in fact there may lie some risk of getting them too early. The jjractice of potting up Easter lilies in small pots has frequently been referred to in these columns but is worth remembering on account of the saving in space and also in permitting the weeding outof any diseased or unsat- isfactory plants before they are finally potted into the pots in which they are to bloom. But whatever may be the practice in regard to potting, there is one safe rule to observe and that is to pot up these bulbs as soon as they are received, for any and all lily bulbs are liable to suffer from prolonged exposure to the air. There is still time to shift on various young palms and other decorative stock and to get them well established before winter sets in, perhaps the greatest obstacle just now being lack of space for such operations, a condition that is hard to remedy just at this , while seed- ling stock is pressing for attention and the larger plants are cramped for space. This is the time of year when an addi- tional range of glass looks especially enticing were it not for the prices that are exacted by our various infant indus- tries for the material required by the hard-working grower, for with the stock in the houses already crowded and lots of plants that must be lifted from the open ground and brought under shelter before frost it gets to be quite a perplex- ing problem for the greenhouse man. It is taken for granted that greenhouse repairs are concluded before this, but if not there should l)e no further delaj-, for there is more difliculty in glazing and painting satisfactorih' on account of moisture than there is earlier in the season. W. H. A
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