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town; now the cold storage Giganteum, there are a number of wholesal- 

 ers who are putting them out in large lots. It is a good idea for a small 

 grower to have a hundred or so come along the first of every month, from 

 February, or January and March on up to the first of May. Pot them up. 

 That will give you a steady supply of lilies on up through the summer 

 months. It is almost impossible to get the Formosum at this time of the 

 year, they are not on the market. 



The Chairman: Get the bulbs in the fall. 



Mr. Green: My idea was to buy Giganteum. We are planting 100 

 bulbs the first of January, and will plant them the first of March. And 

 we will get lilies all the time, instead of using specimens. 



Mr. Frey: We commence getting our cold storage lilies the first of 

 March, and from that time on, we get them. We have been getting our 

 Formosum lilies since Christmas, and will have enough lilies for every 

 day use up to Easter, and then they will straggle on that way. 



Mr. Frey: I do not believe it would pay a small grower to have 

 Harrisii except in two or three cases, maybe. There are places where I 

 have been, where they were Harrisii and about 60 or 70 per cent of them 

 were diseased. Once in a while somebody will get a case of them that 

 will be good. I believe that the best lily for the small grower to grow 

 would be the Formosum. There is very little disease in the bulbs, and 

 practically all of them come clean. Out of 100, there will be 50 or 60 per 

 cent of them that will be anywhere from two to three feet, and they have 

 good foliage. I remember I bought the first case of Harrisii that ever came 

 west, about twenty-seven years ago, and out of that 100, there was 101 

 bulbs, and I had 101 plants, and every one was perfect, and while they 

 grew about five or six feet high, not every one of them was a perfect 

 plant, and they ran from fifteen to sixteen flowers, and today out of the 

 same bulbs, you will get about three flowers. Personally, I grow Gigan- 

 teum for Easter, but I give them heat. The bulbs arrive here about 

 November, or the last of October, and they are potted immediately, and 

 I let the pots get well filled with roots and give them heat. I do not mind 

 80 degrees at night, in fact all I can give them. And by Easter you will 

 get a flower that is a good deal larger, and has more substance than any 

 that can be grown. 



Mr. Williams: The small grower can't give them that heat. That is 

 the trouble with the Giganteum. I have grown them for the last three 

 or four years, and I found that I lacked the heat that was necessary for 

 them, and so I could not handle them. I ordered Formosum, and there 

 are several others that are smaller than I am, and some that are larger 

 than I am, and they are in the same fix. So I tackled the Harrisii for my 

 main crop, and I have 2,000 as pretty plants as you ever laid your eyes 

 on. They average twenty-four inches high, and have good straight stems, 

 right down to the pot, and I have seen hardly a diseased plant in the 

 bunch If you can get Harrisii like that; I think they are good to grow, 

 because you can get them into blossom without much forcing, and it saves 

 the florist a lot of worry. Of course, the Giganteum, as I said, I have put 



