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never be given below GO degrees. They 

 iue also much troubled with red spider, 

 but that is easily kept of! by the syringe. 



Robert Halliday, President Americin Carnation Society. 



last summer and have been resting be- 

 neath a cool bench should be started at 

 once. Often the weak growth will have 

 dried up. Cut back to the live, solid 

 wood, shake out and repot and put into 

 a warm house. Keep syringed whenever 

 you pass with the hose and you will soon 

 "have any amount of young growtli- wliiili 

 root quickly and easily. I U:>\r 'ifdn 

 heard people say that they aie ililliniU 

 cuttings to root. We never tind them so, 

 but they must be kept continually moist 

 and shaded from the sun like most other 

 cuttings. 



Though a long way ahead of time, I 

 will just say here that there is no place 

 like a hot-bed to produce fine, bushy little 

 plaiil- "f Hii- >«.'rl -iiirlling favorite. A 

 plini -lull.. I int.. .1 ::iiii-li pot and put 

 int.! :< inil.l Ih.i Kr.l ai ni.l of April will 



weeks. 



Lantanas. 



The lanlaiia is another good, useful 

 plant that needs about the same treat- 

 ment. e\cc]it that they don't need a hot- 

 bed. Pot-grown plants that have been 

 resting I but not dried up) should be 

 started now in a temperature of 60 de- 

 grees. These will soon give you plenty of 

 cuttings which root very readily. 



Bouvardias. 



Bouvardias are little grown now; still 

 tliey are most beautiful flowers and well 

 worth growing. Now is a good time to 

 propagate. They can be rooted from the 

 young, tender growths, but it is a slow 

 job and not worth trying, because they 

 root so easily from pieces of the root. 

 When you shake out the old plant to cut 

 up the roots, don't use the stout pieces 

 of root near llir -I. an in.r ili. iliread-likc 

 roots at tlir . \i iniiiu , I ,ik. 1 lir medium- 

 sized fre?li II'. 'i~ t III III. Ill into pieces 

 * to J iiiili I..11- aii.l .li~inliiite them 

 evenly in the ^and of the propagating 



bed. The warmer the sand the quicker 

 you will see the little p'ants spring up. 

 Cover the roots an eighth of an inch, or 

 just out of sight, and keep moderately 

 moist. You will soon have all the young 

 plants you need. When they have formed 

 a buncii of their fine roots, lift and pot. 

 There is no difficulty about bringing the 

 plants along, but remember that the bou 

 vardia is a tropical plant and shoii'd 



Wir,i 



: Scott. 



VIOLETS. 



We have found it somcwliat difficult 

 this year to keep our violets just as we 

 wish to have them, owing to tlie change- 

 able and, up to the past we6k, open 

 weather. In fact, it has been so warm 

 lliat it has been impossible to prevent 

 the plants from starting their soft spring 

 growth, wliieh we always try to avoid 

 und put ott' as lorrg as we possibly can. 

 This cold weather, while it is death to 

 the coal bin, is just what we need for 

 the plants. 



Your care must not be relaxed if you 

 e.xpect to have good blooms for Easter, 

 which comes this year on. April 7. A 

 good deal of time must be spent clearing 

 oir the old yellow and decaying leaves, 

 which will do much mischief if left, es- 

 pi..iall\ if 111.' man at the hose is at all 

 carcl.--. 111. I.' i- a great difference in 

 prnjil. Ill ij. iii'j iliis work, some clean- 

 ing till' I'laiii- ijpidly, carefully and not 

 hooking oir the buds or cracking the 

 stems of the good leaves, while others 

 never seem to be able to acquire the 

 knack of doing it. 



It is also time to be removing the run- 

 ners wliich you wish for stock for next 

 sca-on. and it is to be supposed that you 

 liMM' 111.' planl- marked that you con- 

 sul. 1 .-|..i.ilh 'J. ...I I as to size and color 

 (,l il.iw.i, l.ii'jili iif stem and habit of 

 plairl, I lliiiik \iiu can see a marked dif- 

 Icieni'i' in a few years' time where you use 

 care in selecting your stock plants in 

 this way. In fact, we have found it 

 rather hard the past two seasons to get 

 as much stock as we wishe'd, owing to the 

 fact that the plants do not give us nearly 

 as many runners as formerly, which is a 

 good fault when you vmrst flowers (which 

 1 suppose is what every grower is after), 

 but otherwise when you want a lot of 

 stock. 



Albert M. Herr, Secretary American Carnation Society. 



