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FLORISTS' PUBLI3HINa CO., 530-535 Caxton Building, CHICAQO. 



Vol. I. 



CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JANUARY 20, )898. 



No. 8. 





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Bed of Gomphrcna (jlobosa. 



BED OF GOMPHRENA GLOBOSA. 



The accompan^-ing engraving shows 

 one of several beds of this "everlasting" 

 which were a feature at Lincoln Park, 

 Chicago, the past summer. The Howeis 

 are purplish red and are produced with 

 great freedom all summer. 



Mr. Stromback grows the plants from 

 seed which is sown in flats of sandy loam 



in March. Overvvatering is to be specially 

 guarded against and bottom heat will 

 assist gernunation. When two or three 

 leaves show prick out the little plants in 

 flats of the same soil and give bottom 

 heat as before. When of suitable size 

 pot the plants in thumb pots or rose 

 pots. Shift later into 2'<-inch and keep 

 in these till time to bed out. 



Plant out early in June in beds of sandy 



loam, placing the plants about ten inches 

 apart. Be careful in watering, as, if the 

 plants are overwatered they are liable to 

 rot off at the neck. 



There was a border of Phragmetes com- 

 munis (quill rod) around this bed, and its 

 silvery foliage was very effective, but it 

 was carried off piecemeal by the English 

 sparrows who used it in building their 

 nests. 



