1904 Supplement To 1903 Catalogue PDF Download

Excerpt from 1904 Supplement to 1903 Catalogue: New, Rare and Beautiful Plants and Seeds Any of the plants offered in our catalogue are grown only in conserva tories or the house in climates where winter prevails, but in Southern California, especially on the coast and a few miles back most of the plants, bulbs and seeds we offer, can be grown in the open g'round all the year. Many plants that attain great proportions in Southern California, never grow more than the height of a few feet in pots in the east. We would sug gest to our Eastern customers that they give tender plants, especially begonias, the benefit of open ground culture, partial shade in summer, and before frost to cut them back a little and remove them into pots. Thus insur ring stronger growth for winter. Much can be learned by experimenting. When we first began to grow tender plants in California we were told they would not grow outside, but we experimented. Sometimes loosing them, but trying again, till we learned their requirements in this climate. E supply small plants of many of the common varieties of begonias at $1 per dozen, but we advise all customers sending from a distance to order larger plants and have them sent by express. The stems of young begonias are succulent and watery, and are easily injured and fall apart when packed in close quarters. If they are hardened and fibrous their powers of resist ence to heat and cold are very great which makes it possible to ship them as far as Europe or Asia with safety. A well established begonia will soon recuperate after a long journey even if it loses all its foliage, while a young plant would perish. We will make special prices on large collections of begonias, cactus, etc. We are prepared to furnish fine specimen begonias of various sizes. Prices on application. We make a specialty of hanging baskets. 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.