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Febbuast 21, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1035 



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palms, aquatics, bulbs and roots, and 

 foliage and flowering plants. 



Ferns. 



Ferns are my specialty and so I will 

 make a few remarks on them first. The 

 nephrolepis, in all th^ old and new va- 

 rieties, are the most profitabie for the 

 southern florist to grow. My attention 

 was fi#6t called to them some twenty- 

 five years ago when I lived in south 

 Florida where there were hundreds of 

 acres of the N. exaltata growing wild. 

 I started advertising and sold thousands 

 of them all over the United States and 

 Canada. 



In 1898 I returned to Louisiana and 

 saw that little effort was made here to 

 supply the north with ferns. I at once 

 made this my specialty. Little artificial 

 heat is needed here to grow them. I 

 generally begin the first part of April 

 to move the plants outdoors, either in 

 pots or plant them in the open field 

 without any protection from the sun; 

 but close watch has to be kept over 

 them all summer to keep them well 

 watered. The varieties I grow in the 

 full sun are: N. exaltata, N. compacta, 

 N. tuberosa; N. Bostoniensis, N. Pier- 

 soni, N. elegantissima, N. Barrowsii, N. 

 Whitmani, N. Wittboldi, and N. Wash- 

 ingtoniensis. 



N, Scottii and N. davallioides and all 

 adiantums and other ferns need slight 

 protection from the sun. A lattice shade 

 giving one-quarter shade and three- 

 quarters sun will make a good protec- 

 tion. By the middle of November they 

 all should be in the house, as about that 

 time we generally have a light frost. 

 Plants growing this way will be full and 

 stocky, and far superior to the northern 

 grown, greenhouse stock, either as plants 

 for decorating or for cutting. 



Last summer I kept a record on a 

 batch of N. Whitmani and they aver- 

 aged forty runners to a plant in six 

 months. I have shipped them by freight 



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and had thom three weeks on tlie road 

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Palms. 



The palm is our next plant of great 

 importance. All varieties can l)e more 

 cheaply produced here than in any other 

 state. Some varieties can be kept the 

 entire year outdoors, while others need 

 a little protection by coldframo, and 

 only few varieties need a greenhouse 

 for three or four months in the year. 



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need a 

 against 



In the summer most varieties 

 lattice shade to protect them 

 the hot sun. 



Bulbs and Roots. 



The bulb and root industry is very in- 

 viting for the southern florist. I will 

 only mention a few which are well 



