. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. rooted cuttings of several vari-eties. They were a sickly looking lot upon arrival—?pale strawy in color and weak looking, as thoughthey had been standing weeks too long in the sandbed of a warm house. Not much improvement hadbeen made at planting time, but we put them following weeks were dry and nearly all of theplants died; Mrs. Lawson perished to the last stock of our own propagation started off —If the disease which finally ruined ourwhole s
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. rooted cuttings of several vari-eties. They were a sickly looking lot upon arrival—?pale strawy in color and weak looking, as thoughthey had been standing weeks too long in the sandbed of a warm house. Not much improvement hadbeen made at planting time, but we put them following weeks were dry and nearly all of theplants died; Mrs. Lawson perished to the last stock of our own propagation started off —If the disease which finally ruined ourwhole stock of Mrs. Lawson is a bacterial disease,and it evidently is, did not we inoculate the patchby introducing the bacterium on this new stock?We think so and hereafter all new stock will bekept and planted out in a different location, farapart, until it is proven healthy. My advice to all growers would be, if your stock is healthy, do not get any new stockof that variety from the outside, but stick to yourown; and if new varieties are bought quarantinethem for a season. THOS. H. WHITE. Maryland. I. Pratla Angulata Photo by W. H. Waite Bacteriosis on Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson. Editor Florists Exchange: To the successful novice, flushed with the out-come of his work, the extreme caution with whichthe older and more experienced florist speaks ofhis enterprises is usually a great surprise. That thisconservatism pays, one who has been up againstit can testify. Until this year we would havebeen willing to stake almost any sum that the car-nation Mrs. Thos. W. Lawson was the thing andno trouble to grow. Our reasons for thinking so were,that for five years we have had them dumb luck was in a measure responsiblefor our success has been proven by the fact thatthis year, having treated the stock in every respectin the same manner as in previous years, the onlydecent Mrs. Lawson we have on the place are afew which have never been outside. Our field-grownplants al
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