200 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
in a box, three or four inches deep and 7 x 9g inches. 
Care must be taken not to let these plants run up tall. 
Always give all the air possible while keeping up 
the temperature, which should be from fifty to fifty- 
five at night. Get them outdoors as soon as the 
weather becomes settled, where they could be pro- 
tected in case of a sudden late frost. 
BEDDING PLANTS 
Most of the plants used for flower gardens and 
lawn beds come under the three following classes: 
(1) Those grown from seed; (2) those grown 
from cuttings; (3) those of a bulbous nature. 
Almost all of the first group are sown in the 
spring in flats in the greenhouse. Two important 
exceptions, however, are pansies and English daisies 
(Bellis perennis). They are sown early in the 
fall, as already described, and the plants wintered 
over in a frame or protected outdoors. For the 
retail trade they are put up in small boxes or “ pansy 
baskets’? made for the purpose. While small 
plants, just beginning to bloom, are the best, it 
seems very hard to convince a customer of it and 
they will often choose a basket with four or five old 
plants loaded with bloom in preference to a dozen 
small ones. 
Asters, alyssum, balsams, candytuft, celosia, co- 
leus, dianthus (pink), lobelia, mignonette, petunias, 
phlox, portulaca, ricinus, salvia, verbenas, vinca, 
