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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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ers and for growing amongshrubbery. It has a peculiar appearance due to the long stamensand seed vessels. The flowers are pink and so arranged as to give alight, airy appearance. If the seed vessels are removed as theyappear the plants will last much longer in flower. Propagation. It is always propagated from seeds which aresown indoors early in the season. COSMOS. To have the plants complete their growth earlythe seed of C. hipinnatus should be sown indoors, or on a hotbedby the middle of March. Give the seedlings enough light to avoidweak growth. Plant out in rather sandy soil, and not too heavilymanured. C. sidphureiis has yellow flowers; late blooming plants ofit may be lifted and put in large pots, or planted out in a benchwhere there is abundant headroom. When grown on stiff soil theplants lift easily. Some of the more robust shoots may be removed,owing to the loss of some of the roots in removing. In this waythey will give a large quantity of bloom till frost. 226 PLANT CULTURE
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ANNUALS 227 Supports for the plants: We frequently see a very promisingcrop of Cosmos laid flat on the ground by a moderate wind storm,which not only breaks half, or more, of the branches, but the flowerson those which are left are at least a week later than usual in mak-ing their appearance and have crooked stems in the bargain. COTYLEDON (Echeveria. Hen and Chickens). These arenot annuals but are here described because they are frequentlyused for carpet bedding. Some of the best for this purpose are:C. atro purpurea, C. californica, C. clavifolia, C. fascicular is, C. gibbi-flora var. mefallica, C. secunda var. glauca, C. imbricata, C. Pachy-phylum, C. mirabilis, C. globosa var. extensa, and C. eximia. Propagation. The narrow-leaved kinds are raised in quantityfrom leaves; others from seed, offsets and from cuttings. Novem-ber and December are the best months for propagation. Pull theleaves from the plants, taking care during the operation that thebud in the axil of the leaf is pres

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