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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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rdener to Mr. JohnSingleton, took flrst on Boston fern. AsparagusSprengeri, rex begonias. The aquatics of E. D. Stur-tevant won first, indeed there was no competitionin this line of plants. W. C. Collett, gardener toMr. A. C. Burrage, Redlands took first on fieldgrown carnations; Dietrich & Hustan flrst on ken-tias. The city parks showed some well growngloxinias, orchids, rhododendrons, maidenhair ferns,and some crotons. The last named should havebeen consigned to the compost heap long ago. A collection of 53 different varieties of cut flow-ers grown on a private place was numbered and acatalogue printed containing their names, both com-mon and scientific, as well as their nativity, for thebenefit of visiting students of plant life, and provedto be one of the most interesting features of theshow. This feature of an exhibition of flowers asthey grow in this climate if carried out in greaterlength and more perfect manner would make ourshows much more interesting, for the reason that
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Phalaeuopsis Schilleriana. Grower. H. Papworth. New Orleans, La. we have trees, vines, shrubs and herbaceous sub-jects growing here from every part of the knownworld. They cannot be cultivated outdoors in theEast and would be unprofitable under gla.ss, hencefew people know anything about them. Edward Rust showed a Nephrolepis elegantissimathat was the wonder and admiration of all whosaw it. Some Japanese iris grown under slats byHoward & Smith, were very fine—flowers large,on stems three feet in length. P. D. BARNHART. Mignonette. (Reitd before the Tarryto wd Hortlciiltur.iISocletj bj JosephBradley, Dobbs Ferry, N. J.t Mignonette is like most other flowers we grow In-doors. It is easy to grow providing the right meansare at hand to grow it. The first requirement is aproper house. The next is the right kind of soil andmanure to be used. The next and the most im-portant requirement is plenty of time to attend to itafter it is planted. The kind of house to grow mi-gnonette in is in

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