The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . reat many feet inlength. It is needless to say that it would not pro-duce good results in a carnation bench, but it doesyield good crops for the farmer who understands howto cultivate and irrigate it. This heavy adobe is atone extreme, and we find all grades of soil differingin texture up to sand and gravel. In some parts of the mountains w^e have enormousdeposits of red sandstone, and the soil adjacent willbe a bright red sandy loam which yields excellentcrops in the field, bu
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . reat many feet inlength. It is needless to say that it would not pro-duce good results in a carnation bench, but it doesyield good crops for the farmer who understands howto cultivate and irrigate it. This heavy adobe is atone extreme, and we find all grades of soil differingin texture up to sand and gravel. In some parts of the mountains w^e have enormousdeposits of red sandstone, and the soil adjacent willbe a bright red sandy loam which yields excellentcrops in the field, but lacks the necessary substancefor use in the bench. Within a small area, soils of very different charac-ter can often be found, and not infrequently the to-pography will indicate different rock formations asthe source from which they came, but almost withoutexception there will be the same lack of vegetablematter. This lack is one which can measurably besupplied so far as the chemistrv of the soil is con-cerned, but the texture of the soil cannot be as satis-factorily corrected. During the Winter the carnations. Single Bloom Winsor, (Reduced) F, R. Pierson. Co. require a thorough watering once or twice a weekand I think all growers in our section will agree withme in saying that we have been unable to find a soilthat will endure this heavy watering throughout aseason in the bench without becoming packed andsoggy, unless it is a soil so sandy that it will not pro-duce a good crop. It is to be hoped that we may learn something toour advantage from the scientific soil investigationsnow being conducted by the Department of Agricultureand the various experiment stations. Certainly all ofus have much to learn, and our progress is so slow asto he disheartening. When we come to consider the matter of propaga-tion. I am inclined to think that the florist in the aridregion has several advantages over his Easternbrother, but the advantages are not all on one side.\\hen the cuttings are t
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