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- variety of flowering plants by the hundreds of thousands.
He sells these to florists wrapped in bundles of
25. Also sells polyanthus seed at 10/ per ounce
+ harvests about 15 pounds from a relatively small
area grown as an orchard cover crop.
He strongly recommends the J.C. Williams
Camelias. Strikes his own cuttings also those
of the small rhodos [rhododendrons] as follows.
Take large glass candy jar. Place about an inch
of charcoal in the bottom then fill half full
of sharp sand + chopped sphagnum, soak
with water, take your cutting in June from
half hardened new growth, about 2 1/2" long,
leave 2 leaves + plunge in this, + replace
lid. Expose the base to the sun but
shade the top. 6 weeks usually strikes
up to 90% of the cuttings.
[E.H.] Cox will send me cuttings of Rhodo [Rhododendron] Lady
Chamberlain, R. [Rhododendron] soulei, puralbum + wardii.
Berberis vernae very fine. also for UBC. [University of British Columbia]
should get R. fastuosa flora plena [Rhododendron fatuosum flore pleno]
Recommends Alstromeria ligtu hybrids
as marketed by Van Tubergen.
Of the small rhodos. [rhododendrons] radicans, myrtilloides
scintillans F.R.C. 1924 form, 2 1/2'; racemonsum, Forests
dwarf form; R. [Rhododendron] russatum (3-4), R. [Rhododendron] albrechtii 3-5, calostratum 1 1/2' +
blue diamond
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