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HORTI CULTU RE 



March 24, 190G 



Specimen Hakdy Hybrid Rhododendrons. 



THE SELLING AND PACKING OF 



CARNATION BLOOMS AND 



CUTTINGS. 



(Extracts from a paper read before the 



Chicago Florists' Club March 6tb, 



1906, by J. D. Thompson.) 



In shipping, too much care can not 



be taken in the selection of bloom and 



ili packing same. In our experience 



we have all had complaints that 



blooms reached their destinations in a 



sleepy condition and of those 



shipped a short distance not keeping 



as well as they should. I immediately 



set to work to determine where the 



trouble was. I would pick blooms at 



different stages of maturity and tried 



keeping them in water all the way 



from six to twenty-four hours before 



shipping, but with the same results 



I then made a test of the ke;ping 



quality before and after fumigating, 



and found that blooms picked before 

 fumigating would last in our cooler 

 for ten days and those cut after fumi- 

 gating would last but three days. I 

 then tried different insecticides until 

 I found one that did not destroy the 

 keeping quality of the blooms and at 

 the same time was effective. Since 

 then we have had no complaints. 



Good packing is very essential. We 

 first line the box and then place lay- 

 ers of wet paper in the middle where 

 the stems come and pack the layers of 

 blooms in rows from each end of the 

 box, placing a layer of paper in the 

 center on each row of stems and so on. 

 If the shipment is to be in transit 

 over 15 hours we put in a small piece 

 of ice, but it is not necessary to use 

 ice if the shipment is only to be on 

 the road over night. 



The packing and shipping of rooted 

 cuttings of carnations is an important 

 matter. In the cuttings received we 

 find that nine times out of ten the 

 moss around the rots is too wet. This 

 has a tendency to damp them off if 

 they are three or four days in transit. 

 Again while some shippers get the 

 moss prepared properly, they use old 

 newspapers or manilla paper to wrap 

 the bundles in, the paper often absorbs 

 all the moisture and the cuttings reach 

 their destinaiton in a wilted condition. 

 I find that wetting the moss thorough- 

 ly and then squeezing it as dry as pos- 

 sible and allowing it to remain over 

 night before using, insures good re- 

 sults. In wrapping bundles, use heavy 

 wax paper; in this way the paper 

 does not absorb the moisture left in 

 the moss. 



Bulbs for Raster. 



Hyacinths, Jonquils, Tulips, first-class bulbs, just righ' for Easter 

 flowering, 4>/ 2 in pots, $1. SO per doz. $10 00 per 100. 



ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII, 4 1-2 in. pots, $1.50 per doz., 



$10.00 a 100; strong, 3 in. pots, 75c. per doz., $5.00 per 



100: 2 in. pots, $2.00 per 100. 

 ABTJTIl.ON SAVITZII, 3 In. pots. 75e. per doz., $5.00 per 



100; 2 In pots. 50c. per doz.. $3.00 per 100. 

 CLEMATIS PANICULATA, 4 in. pots. $1.50 per doz., $10.00 



per 100; 3 in pots, 75c. per doz., $5.00 per 100. 

 CLEMATIS, large fid. 2 year old plants, $3.00 per doz. 

 DAISY, Queen Alexandria, 3 in. pots, 75e. per doz., $5.00 per 



10(1. 



EUONYMUS. golden variegated, 2 1-2 in. pots, 60e. per doz., 



$3.00 per 100. 

 ETJONYMTJS, radicans, var., 2 1-2 in. pots, 50c. per doz., 



$3.00 per 100. 

 PRIMULA OBCONH'A. 4 in. pots in bloom, $1.00 per doz. 

 GERANIUMS, double scarlet, white and pink, from 3 in. pots. 



strong, $4.00 per 100. 



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