. North Carolina and its resources. ineregion seem especially adapted to the growth and perfection of thelily tribe, as extensive experiments have shown. A few years agoa New York importer had 100,000 lily bulbs arrive from France in adamaged condition so that they were entirely unsaleable. He sentthem to Aberdeen in the sand hill country of this State, and in oneseasons growth, in the hands of absolutely inexperienced cultivators,they attained such perfection as to astonish all who saw them on theirreturn to New York, and the florists who bought them for forcingwere so pleased with the result
. North Carolina and its resources. ineregion seem especially adapted to the growth and perfection of thelily tribe, as extensive experiments have shown. A few years agoa New York importer had 100,000 lily bulbs arrive from France in adamaged condition so that they were entirely unsaleable. He sentthem to Aberdeen in the sand hill country of this State, and in oneseasons growth, in the hands of absolutely inexperienced cultivators,they attained such perfection as to astonish all who saw them on theirreturn to New York, and the florists who bought them for forcingwere so pleased with the results that the next season they all wanted,some of the same kind of bulbs. Professor Massey sent the pastseason bulbs of a great variety, grown at the Station grounds nearRaleigh, in a soil not believed to be the best for the purpose, whichwere pronounced by the Garden and Forest, the leading authority insuch matters, to be better by far than any imported bulbs that hadever been seen in that city. Experiments with the bulbs showed that.
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