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The Florists^ Review 



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 avenue, is suitable for the show. It 

 was voted then to ask the National 

 I'lower Show committee to recommend 

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What the Craigs Are Doing. 



The erection of the large addition to 

 the plant of the Eobert Craig Co., at 

 Norwood, Pa., last summer has given 

 opportunity for these able growers to 

 show what they can do. Their first 

 aim has been to develop the production 

 of flowering plants suitable for the two 

 {.Teat Christian holidays, Easter and 

 Christmas, and incidentally of the foli- 

 ;»5e plants best suited to go with them. 

 I heir second aim has been the develop- 

 "lont of the croton and of the dracaena. 



The crotons have responded wonder- 

 ' "Hy to the fine Lord & Burnham houses 

 "I'd to the even finer cultural skill lav- 

 ished upon them. They propagate with 

 "le ease of the geranium; they grow 

 *^ jth the vigor of a weed; they color 

 ^yth the tints of the rainbow. Given 

 ;l>ese facts, it is not difficult to fancy 

 •lotons a little better than have ever 

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 '"shed truth; such a wealth of croton 

 'olor has never been seen on one place 

 '•t'fore. There are whole blocks of a 

 single variety colored with dazzling 



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brilliancy; there are varieties that have 

 been considered so scarce that many a 

 horticulturist has shown a single speci- 

 men with pride. There are broad-leaved 

 varieties and the variety with narrow 

 leaves, so favored by our English cous- 

 ins. The vigor of growth becomes ap- 

 parent when the size of a plant in a 

 4-inch pot, for instance, is contrasted 

 with the size of plants usually seen in 

 4-inch; the grower would wonder 

 whether it would be too hard to pro- 

 duce such plants in a reasonable time. 

 In other words, the croton standard 

 has been raised. The specimen crotons 

 are beautiful. They are made up like 

 our kentias and arecas, with a strong 

 plant in the center and a number of 

 those sturdy, well feathered 4-inch 



plants around it; the effect is striking. 

 It is Norwood's ambition to place 

 the dracaena standard as far in the 

 van as the standard of the croton. To 

 this end a collection of some twenty 

 of the newer and of the scarcer varie- 

 ties have been added to the standards; 

 to these, seedlings are being added. To 

 further this ambition, tables of young 

 plants have been planted out expressly 

 for stock purposes. Valuable varieties 

 are sacrificed in order to produce per- 

 fect young plants. The idea is that 

 the time has come when this country 

 should produce its own dracscnas of the 

 higher grades — plants that have not 

 suffered from a long ocean voyage in 

 early infancy, but can be delivered in 

 perfect condition and with undimin- 



