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Title: Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Oliver, George Watson, 1858-1923 Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891- joint author
Subjects: Gardening Greenhouses
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ory Pea, or Parrots Bill). C. DanipUr! is aleguminous plant, hard to surpass as a strikingly beautiful flower.Another species, C. puiiiccuSy is often seen in Southern California,but it cannot compare with C. Dampicri. Propagation. C. pun ice us is very easily raised from seeds, butit seems difficult to get good flowering specimens of C. Dampicri onits own roots under cultivation and because of this it is usually in-arched upon other members of the legume family, such as theColutea and Caragana. When grafting it is best to use the seedlingClianlhus while in the cotyledon stage. !Make a vertical cut in thesmall seedling stock and with a razor make a slanting cut in theClianthus seedling stem and place this into the cut in the stock and (;ri<:I:nii()Usic and conskkvatory i^lants 00 tic with ;i very thin strand of raffia, invert a small drinking glassover the pot, keep moist and tlic union will be perfect in a few days.When the union is sifc the glass is removed gradually. Close atten-
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\arii:tii;s oi-- Cinkrakias tion to the needs of the plant will be rewarded by numerous flowerracemes within a year. CQi^LOGYNE. The Ccrlogynes are evergreen. The best formsto grow are C. cris/ala, and its variety, C c. var. maxima, which loo PLANT CULTURE bears large flowers. The plants may be grown with Cattleyas.If kept in a healthy condition at the roots this is a very free bloomer.The potting material should be examined after the flowers are gone,and if decayed replace with fresh material. In large specimens thisis a tedious operation. As the plants are evergreen, they shouldnever become very dry. A good size for flowering may go intolo-inch pans. By the beginning of June we place our plants underthe shade of trees for four months, where they develop splendidgrowth. Their flowering season is during February and March, andimmediately after, the shoots being to push out. Propagation. The plants of this species are easily divided.New growths sometimes push out not only from the base

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