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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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(St. Bernards Lily). Anthericum Liliago is agood all-round plant for vases, bedding, or potted for windowdecoration. For the last-named purpose A. media picta is the bestvariety. Culture. Large clumps oiA.L. var. variegatum, which have beenhibernating under benches, should be broken up about the end ofJanuary and potted in 3- and 4-inch pots. They may be placedunder benches where the light will strike them for at least a portionof the day. Propagation. If the plants which were lifted in the Fall areallowed to bloom, and the flower stalks remain on the plants after-ward, a good opportunity to increase the stock of plants presentsitself during February. All along the flowering stems will be founda crop of small rosettes of leaves which, if cut off, stems and all,and laid on the sand in the shaded part of a warm house, will sendout roots in a short time. ANTHURIUM. The species of this genus are grown either forfoliage or flower. None of them has handsome foHage and showy 58 PLANT CULTURE
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Anthurium Andr^anum GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY PLANTS 59 flowers combined in the same plant. A. crystallinum, A. Veitchiiand A. Warocqueanum are very beautiful foliage plants, but theflowers are inconspicuous. On the other hand A. Andrceanum, A,ornatum and their numerous hybrid progeny, together with A.Scherzerianum and varieties, have rather ordinary-looking leaves;but in each case the inflorescence is exceedingly attractive. Theshowy part of the inflorescence is what is termed the spathe, answer-ing the same purpose as calyx and corolla in other flov/ers. Theshowy-flowered species are excellent combined with Orchids. Culture. Their cultivation is simple where a temperature of65 to 85 degrees may be maintained. Shade at all times, lightestin Winter. The potting mixture should be rough, fibry peat,sphagnum, decayed cow manure and sand, except for A. Scher-zerianum which needs less sphagnum and more peat. Water shouldbe copiously supplied in the growing season. Toward the end ofJanuar

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