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HORTICULTURE 



February 14, 1920 



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Grevellia Robusta is another plant 

 which is useful in spring at the time 

 when porch boxes are being made and 

 cemetery urns filled. The variety 

 known as Silk Oak also makes a good 

 house ornament and retailers find a 

 ready sale for it. Sow the seeds now 

 where it will have a little bottom heat. 

 They germinate quickly and . like a 

 temperature of 60 degrees at night. 

 They must be kept shaded and moist 

 at the beginning, but soon can be 

 given full sunlight. Pot them up in 

 two-inch pots, in which they will make 

 roots rapidly, and when they are well 

 established you can grow them along 

 rapidly in a temperature of 55 de- 

 grees. Later, of course, they will need 

 to be shifted to larger pots. 



This is also a good time to sow fern 

 spores, but remember that you need r 

 particularly porous soil for them. Good 

 drainage, too, is of the utmost Im- 

 portance. Many growers always use 

 a covering of glass as well as extra 

 shade until growth appears. They 

 should be grown well up to the glass 

 and pricked out when large enough 

 The growing ferns will need a good 

 compost, which may well consist of 

 fresh loam in two parts, leaf mold and 

 sandy peat, one part each. WTien pot- 

 ting up both the small and the larger 

 ferns remember that they resent hav- 

 ing the soil worked too firmly around 

 the roots. Of course, all ferns need ar 

 atmosphere which Is filled will- 

 humidity, although there should be no 

 dripping of moisture on the plants, 

 and a 60 degree temperature suits 

 them well. One way of handling the 

 pans after seed has been sown in 

 order to supply moisture is to sink 

 them to the rim in a tub of water. 

 These directions are of a general 

 nature, and of course, practiced fern 

 growers use somewhat different 

 methods in handling the different 

 varieties, a few of which are some- 

 what whimsical as to temperature, 

 moisture, and soil. 



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