. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. repeat orders specifying that American Legion be sent. In the Store. of sweet peas conies once a Retailer: The price was too high at Easter. Grower: How higli? Retailer: $2 to $3. Grower: Easter only year. Retailer: Yes, but we must charge $ for a buneh and that is too much. Grower: Those ideas don't suit tlie increase in salaries and coal. Retailer, graciously: Ah well, the high prices are not entirely your fault; some- times we buy at a quarter and sell at a dollar. Lily Hybridizing. (An informal snapshot by Alfreil M. Campbell.) ''When I was
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. repeat orders specifying that American Legion be sent. In the Store. of sweet peas conies once a Retailer: The price was too high at Easter. Grower: How higli? Retailer: $2 to $3. Grower: Easter only year. Retailer: Yes, but we must charge $ for a buneh and that is too much. Grower: Those ideas don't suit tlie increase in salaries and coal. Retailer, graciously: Ah well, the high prices are not entirely your fault; some- times we buy at a quarter and sell at a dollar. Lily Hybridizing. (An informal snapshot by Alfreil M. Campbell.) ''When I was down in Washington I went to see the work of Dr. (irifiitli in hybridizing lilies. I was so much in- terested in it that I got Joe Ross on the long distance telephone at Straf- ford. He went with me to see the lilies. They had flowered in fourteen months from the time of sowing the seed. Th(\ most that could be said against them was that they were uneven. Now, here you see the results of that visit. We have selected some fifty pots of lilies and are trying to produce seed to raise our own lily bulbs. The process of self- fertilization is interesting and requires care. The seed pod develops at the base of tlie flower when the flower shrivels. Each pod should contain two to three hundred seeds. You know they say that we may be at war with Japan in two years. Then we may want our own lilies. When I showed them to Mark Mills he said, 'Oh, yes,' it is all right if you want lily bulbs that will cost vou'$l each.' Do you think my 10,000 lily bulbs will cost me $10,000? Not mucli. If I do go into it there will be no such ; Possibilities. Emil H. (ieschick believes that a beneficial effect of the existing restric- tions on plant importations will be to throw each grower more on his own re- sources. Instead of having much of his stock grown for him abroad, he will have to grow it himself. This makes the difficulty of getting a good assort- ment of plants in bloom in time fo
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