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Title: The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (A.T. De la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co.
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um forEaster day. Geraniums also made up in bulb pans,about 4 plants to a pan, with nice flowers, make avery attractive Easter gift and command ready-ales; and no matter in what situation we find thegeranium growing, it exists and even flowers in the:imly lighted garret as well as in the palace of themillionaire. Then, also, the geranium is grown inarge numbers to be presented to the scholars of the\arious Sunday-schools on Easter Sunday, and it isa real pleasure to watch the little ones leaving theschool, each carrying its little plant, which theytreasure and which impresses on the child, perhapsfor the first time in his or her life, a love for flowers,and which love is never forgotten.Bulbs. In bulbs for Easter we find large numbers of theDutch hyacinths grown, from five to a dozen bulbsin a pan; and when well grown, not too far out, theymake attractive Easter plants. The following var-ieties are among the best: Gertrude, rosy pink:Norma, fine pink; La Grandesse, extra fine variety.
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Entrance to Rose Garden, Cronipton Estate, Worcester, Mass.Oopyrighted by A. Van Leeuwen, Jr., Landscape Archiiect. April 7, 1906 The Plorists Exchangfe 463 pure white; large spike; LInnocence, pure white,massive spike. Charles Dickens, dark blue, compactspike; and Grand Maitre, porcelain blue. Tulips in variety in pans also command a readysale, the following being a few of the best. Singletulips: Belle Alliance, scarlet; Couleur Cardinal,bronze scarlet: Due Van Thol. scarlet: Keizerskroon,bright red with broad yellow edge, extra large flower;La Reine. pure white, a good forcing variety: Mon.Tresor, golden yellow, extra large flower; Rose Gris-de-lin, one of the best pink tulips In cultivation; and Yellow Prince, a fine yellow variety. In doublevarieties we have Coronne dOr, yellow; La Candeur,white; Murillo. pink; Salvator, rose; and Tournesol.red and yellow, are among the best. In narcissus,Von Sion takes the lead; and for cutting, also panwork, it is a good variety to handle. Bicol

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