Treatment After Benching 



can be seized between the thumb and first finger and pinched out. Unless 

 disbudding is done before the lateral buds have swelled to any great extent, 

 it will be of little use, as the laterals will have taken some considerable strength 

 from the terminal bud, in which case the bud left will not produce as large 

 a flower as if the laterals had been removed early. 



The benches should be gone over at least once in two weeks and the weak 

 shoots cut back ; that is, those shoots that show a tendency to produce small, 

 weak-necked flowers. The object of this is to throw the entire strength of 

 the plant into strong, vigorous growth, to the end that a better average quality 

 of blooms may be secured. 



The time to commence cutting the flowers varies greatly with the varieties 

 grown, as well as with the season at which they were planted inside. In 

 case the planting has been done in July, a few flowers may be left on the 

 plants to be cut in the early part of September. But more profitable results 

 may sometimes be obtained by cutting back the earliest flowers, and allowing 

 new growths to come, which will produce blooms for November, December, 

 and later cutting. 



Prosperity 



