. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. , JAXS. 6M/Af. A/OSON U/iA/.Z/ J/I/IZ6 UAMZP /SAf/N. ^N///. A/a SON MO SUN NO SUN 9M(iS.^£NtAl. A/0 SUA/. e#ea not exceed five per cent. The begonias suffered no more injury than the gera- niums and the plants are now well es- tablished and in a growing condition. A. N. Pierson, Inc. STOBAGE OF PAPER WHITES. Here is a nut for some of you brother florists, which I wish you would crack for me. Last fall the writer got in about 20,000 Paper Whites for winter forcing
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. , JAXS. 6M/Af. A/OSON U/iA/.Z/ J/I/IZ6 UAMZP /SAf/N. ^N///. A/a SON MO SUN NO SUN 9M(iS.^£NtAl. A/0 SUA/. e#ea not exceed five per cent. The begonias suffered no more injury than the gera- niums and the plants are now well es- tablished and in a growing condition. A. N. Pierson, Inc. STOBAGE OF PAPER WHITES. Here is a nut for some of you brother florists, which I wish you would crack for me. Last fall the writer got in about 20,000 Paper Whites for winter forcing. I planted about 1,000 right away, and they did finely. Then I placed some of the remaining bulbs in a cold room on board shelving—I should say about half of the lot. The other half were put in a basement on a cement floor. Those I put in our cold room are all planted and all have done well. Then I started planting from the basement, and from the 8,000 to 10,000 bulbs which were stored there we have not had, to date, a single good flower. In fact, the vitality seems gone; they do not make foliage as Papei» Whites generally do, and the flowers come with from two to four bells on each stem and not over eight or ten inches tall. It a failure. I was priding myself on the good place I have in which to keep my bulbs from growing, as they generally do in storage, but in all my twenty-five years' experience in storing and plant- ing Paper Whites I have never seen the like of this before. The bulbs from the cement floor look as dry and dormant today as when taken out of the boxes last fall. The basement where I put these bulbs is a clean and airy place, with a tem- perature of 45 to 50 degrees. Nothing else is stored there except a few sacks of potatoes, and the bulbs are stored in a dark corner of the basement. The bulbs have all been treated in the same way as regards soil and planting, and after planting tlioy have had the same place in the j;i\ ,'iihouse, from the fir
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