The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . hey are getting known slowly is not fromwant of any merit, for in worthiness they are amongthe very best, but because it is almost impossible tofind them in nurseries. Just as soon as they can behad. everyone who delights In rare will need one. Both belong to the cream colored class, and both arepleasantly odoriferous. The fragrance of the Wat-soni is particularly delicious, in this respect compar-ing favorably with that of our native Fraserl, whichalmost or
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . hey are getting known slowly is not fromwant of any merit, for in worthiness they are amongthe very best, but because it is almost impossible tofind them in nurseries. Just as soon as they can behad. everyone who delights In rare will need one. Both belong to the cream colored class, and both arepleasantly odoriferous. The fragrance of the Wat-soni is particularly delicious, in this respect compar-ing favorably with that of our native Fraserl, whichalmost or quite equals in fragrance the well-knownglauca. The flowers are rather round in the they expand there Is displayed a base of crim-son, the stamens being of that color at the lowerpart. Several other magnolias have this crimsoncolor in the same way. Fraserii and hypoleuca have,and so have grandiflora. Parviflora is well named. It will be thought, whenalongside Watsoni. It is not as large as the other,though resembling it in many other respects; nor hasit as much sweet odor, while nicely perfumed for Pyrus angustifolla (coronaria) fl. jjl., exhibited byWax. Panl & Son, t,oudou, ^ng., May i, J906. Both flower in May, immediately succeeding the un-folding of the leaves. Propagation of magnolias, when seeds are not avail-able, has to be by budding, grafting or have not proved successful. For grafting,or whenever a stock is required, the tripetala is thebest to use. Acuminata is often employed, but astripetala has more fibrous roots, it transplants betterthan the former, as it is known to have but fewother than stroitg tap roots. Snowballs. There is hardly a garden in the land lacking asnowball bush. In the older gardens it is the commonsnowball, Virburnum opulus sterilis; in newer ones,the Japanese species. V. plicatum and often the com-mon one as well. It is no wonder the snowballs areso popular. Their globe-like heads of white flowersadd much to t
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