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The Garden Magazine, October, 1920 
Y EARS of experience as America’s largest importers of all flowering 
bulbs have equipped us with an intimate knowledge of these fragile 
wares, of which our customers get the benefit. Our bulbs are grown 
in the mostfavorable sections, of vigorous strains, by experts who maintain 
the highest quality. They are packed and shipped with all the care that is 
essential to bring them to your garden unimpaired. At the same time, our 
prices are the fairest. 
Special Bargain Collections 
IN the early Spring we obtained from a Dutch specialist in Dar- 
1 wins, a large percentage of his crop of twelve better class sorts 
at prices which enable us to quote much under ordinary rates for 
these wonderfully decorative bloomers. In the grounds of all fine 
homes they are indispensable. Postpaid 
D No. 1,12 Bulbs of 12 Varieties of merit $1 00 
D No. 2, 30 “ “12 “ “ “ 2 00 
D No. 3,190 “ “12 “ “ “ 5.00 
18 French Narcissus Bulbs for growing in gravel 1.00 
5 large Chinese Narcissus Bulbs for growing in water 1.00 
Fall Catalogue of Seeds, Bulbs, Plants and Nursery Stock mailed FREE 
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Best Holland Bulbs 
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No matter what variety your plans call for, 
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What’s more, our prices are consistently low. 
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Unusual Hardy Plants 
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A very choice strain of w.r ■* , , • 
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THE MORRIS NURSERIES 
Box 804 West Chester, Pa. 
WHY THE STORAGE CELLAR 
SHOULD BE VENTILATED 
OROBABLY you have often come across 
1 apples that have been stored and that show 
discolored, brown skins. Perhaps you have 
realized that the condition was a case of “apple 
scald”; but the chances are that you did not 
realize that the scale and the fact that the fruit 
had been in storage were related. Indeed, it is 
only recently that scientists, who have been work- 
ing on the problem or puzzling over it for years, 
have discovered the apparent cause of scald and 
methods of storage whereby it may be prevented, 
or at least greatly reduced. 
The modern belief is that stored apples are, j 
in effect, dormant or sleeping — like a hibernating 
woodchuck — and that in that condition they I 
constantly give off injurious gases, just as sleep- 
ing animals exhale poisonous carbon dioxide, 
though of course in much smaller quantities. , 
But whereas, in the case of animals or people, 
sleeping in an atmosphere charged with waste 
gases — such as a room with closed windows — 
causes “dopiness” and, ultimately, suffocation, 
in the case of apples the corresponding condition 
causes the ugly scald marks. 
Obviously one solution of the problem is better 
ventilation of storage houses, rooms and cellars 
and even containers holding fruit. That this is 
effective has been proved by noting the consist- 
ently lessened proportion of scald on apples 
stored along the aisles of storage cellars or in 
positions where a slight but continuous air cur- 
rent dissipated the exhaled vapors. 
Since it isn’t easy to ventilate packed boxes 
and barrels so that the fruit in the centre can 
“breathe” comfortably, the investigators went 
a little farther with their experiments and dis- 
covered that a special kind of paper impregnated 
with certain oils and fats has the power of absorb- 
ing and neutralizing the harmful gases. Where- 
upon they wrapped each apple in their test 
packages in paper so prepared and were rewarded 
with fruit that kept perfectly and remained en- 
tirely free from scald. Of course, until the dis- 
covery is commercialized and the paper made 
available on the market, the information is 
merely interesting, not useful; but we can all 
give our stored fruit more ventilation which 
means the same thing as to results. 
GETTING THE BEST OF 
POISON-IVY 
C ONSTANT vigilance and repeated cutting 
back of every vine and shoot make up 
the essential features of a slow and conservative 
but usually successful campaign against Poison- 
ivy (which is botanically of the same species as 
the lanky but attractive, wooly-flowered Sumac) 
But sometimes more speedy results are desired, 
in which case late fall, when plant growth has 
ceased for the year, is a good time to get busy. 
At this time the supply of volatile sap which 
contains the poisonous agent is present to the 
least extent, and the plants, being dry, burn up 
more promptly and produce less of the acrid 
smoke which often causes cases of the familiar 
poisoning. 
At this time, too, whether or not the vines 
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