. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 972 The American Florist. Mar. 77, there are such numbers of them ranged along the branches that quite a display is made. Outside this usually leads all shrubs, excepting the Daphne Mezereum. This is the first and its flowers, white on some plants, pink on others, though small, are very fragrant. When grown in pots in a greenhouse the Carolina jasmine, Gelsemium semper- virens, blooms early, and it is a most lovely vine, as all visitors to the south in early spring are aware. But though the plants live out with us
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 972 The American Florist. Mar. 77, there are such numbers of them ranged along the branches that quite a display is made. Outside this usually leads all shrubs, excepting the Daphne Mezereum. This is the first and its flowers, white on some plants, pink on others, though small, are very fragrant. When grown in pots in a greenhouse the Carolina jasmine, Gelsemium semper- virens, blooms early, and it is a most lovely vine, as all visitors to the south in early spring are aware. But though the plants live out with us they are usully somewhat injured in winter, so that I have never seen one flowrer out of doors. If a bundle of shoots could be had from the southern forests, no doubt they would bloom nicely. I have never been very successful with branches of fruit trees, such as apple, cherry, plum and pear. It may be that if laid on damp moss in a dark place for a while and brought to light later, when the buds were somewhat advanced, suc- cess would be attained. The same may be true of Spirsa Reevesii, S. Van. Houtteii, lilacs, snowballs and late spring shrubs, which certainly do not succeed in bottles of water as well as the other sorts named. A friend of mine had a few dwarf apples last season, and these made an uncom- monly beautiful showing when in bloom. They were a mass of flowers in a short time after given heat. These dwarf apples are on the Paradise stock, which dwarfs them, and then the potting increases the tendency to early flowering. These should make good selling plants for Easter. An apple in full flower would be pretty, besides the sweet odor of the flower, and then what of the fruit to follow? Joseph Meehan. Begonia Gloire de Lorraine. Without doubt this is one of the most useful greenhouse decorative plants that has been introduced for half a century. We have no plant that will last in bloom for such a length of time in the green- house. Plants that were in blossom in Sept
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