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the flowers begin to open. When the 

 pjjiicles are fully developed and the 

 flowers are about half opened, the plants 

 should be removed to a cool house for 

 the liardening-off process. The tempera- 

 tures mentioned have reference, of 

 coune, to early forcing. As the natural 

 flowering season draws near, say in 

 March and April, the temperature may 

 be reduced to the neighborhood of 60 de- 

 crees at night. The time allowed for the 

 earliest forcing should be about five 

 weeks; later, three or four weeks may 

 gufl'ce. During the summer the plants 

 shoe-Id be plunged outdoors in their 

 pot", where they should be mulched and 

 well watered until fall, when the quan- 

 tity of water should be reduced for the 

 purpose of ripening the wood. 



BRAMPTON, ONT. 



The week preceding Easter closed 

 mo'^t satisfactorily. Everything in the 

 shiipe of flowers was disposed of. Lilies 

 we- e in great demand and, although the 

 prices, 20 cents and 25 cents per bloom, 

 were maintained till the last, there was 

 not a plant left. Some of the growers 

 were carried away by a fit of generosity 

 anfl dumped their stock on the market 

 at 15 cents per bloom, but those who 

 understood the situation had no diffi- 

 culty in securing repeat orders from 

 three or four of the larger cities in the 

 United States, whose buyers knew what 

 superior stock was worth. 



The Canadian Express employees 

 were out on strike during the entire 

 we ok, but the Dominion Express people 

 handled the output throughout the coun- 

 try in a way that did them credit. The 

 men back from the front are taking up 

 their old positions, and things are be- 

 ginning to work smoothly once more in 

 all departments. 



The Lord & Burnham Co. was the suc- 

 cessful bidder. for the contract for the 

 two new greenhouses, 50x480, to be 

 built for the Dale Estate this summer. 

 Chrysanthemum planting has already 

 begun at the estate and carnations are 

 being thrown out to give place to next 

 season's stock. E. Seal has returned 

 from France to his former post as ship- 

 per and J. Crook has left for England 

 with his family. W. G. P. 



BRIEF ANSWERS 



J. A. F., Mich. — If you can see the 

 buds you will be in time, providing your 

 plants are in healthy growing condition. 



Louisville, Ky. — * ' Cooperation in 

 Business" was the title of a paper read 

 by Herbert "Walker, with William 

 Walker, at a recent meeting of the Ken- 

 tucky Society of Florists in this city. 



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