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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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here aretwo colors, white and blue. Propagation. Both are raised from seeds and by division. LOBELIA. L. Erinus is a very popular bedding plant inEurope, but short-lived here, owing principally to the high tem-perature during mid-Summer. Propagation. A few old plants kept on a bench along withsuch things as HeHotrope and Ageratum will give fine cuttings,which are rooted beginning of March and transferred to a hotbed,to make growth. The plants when grown from seed are not uniformin color or habit of growth. MATTHIOLA (Stocks). The Ten-Weeks Stock, M. incana,is a comparatively easy plant to manage. The varieties are nu-merous and there are strains obtainable with surprisingly fewsingles among a batch of plants. Propagation and Culture. It is raised from seed at intervalsfrom June to November. The seedlings should be put in small potswhen of sufficient size and repotted into larger ones before plantingin beds. Clean pots should be used, as the roots are then less liable 230 PLANT CULTURE
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Single Petunias.—See page 233 ANNUALS 231 to injury when the ball is removed. Twelve inches apart is a suffi-cient distance to plant. They will stand more neglect than mostother plants. A sharp lookout should be kept for insects on thefoHage. The soil should be rich and about 6 inches deep. Theyare at their best in a cool house with full exposure to the sun. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM (Fig Marigold). M. crystallinumis the Ice Plant, and has gHstening pustules upon its leaves resem-bling ice; besides this the plants bear small white or blush flowers.M. pomeridianmn and M. pyropeum are attractive flowering annuals.The pretty little variegated Ice Plant, known under the name ofM. cordifolium variegatum, has a habit of damping off in the propa-gating bed when treated like the majority of bedding plants. Away to circumvent this is to prepare shallow boxes of sand and leafsoil. Give one good watering previous to putting in the cutting.Let the boxes stand for a few hours, put in the cuttings quite c

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