Speeding Up Flowering In The Daffodil And The Bulbous Iris Classic Reprint

Speeding Up Flowering in the Daffodil and the Bulbous Iris (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Speeding Up Flowering in the Daffodil and the Bulbous Iris It should be realized that Bellingham-grown iris bulbs are late ma turing; Carolina or Virginia. Grown stocks can be brought into flower earlier. Commercial growers in the vicinity of Wilmington, have cut flowers from cold-stored Wedgewood bulbs the end of the first week in November. They use normal storage through July, 50° in August, and pot in early September. The humidity of the chamber for cold treating of bulbous iris is of even more importance than for the treatment of daffodils. The con trol of humidity entails an additional expense which is not commonly provided in commercial cold-storage establishments. However, the matter is not so difficult to arrange, for all that is necessary is to keep the bulbs from rooting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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