GENERAL INFORMATION 



to procure seeds of the stock to be used. There is 

 then the work of planting these seeds in February, 

 taking care of the young seedlings, and setting them 

 out in nursery rows as soon as the weather is suitable. 

 Such seedlings are ready for budding in August of 

 the same year. After they have been budded they 

 are ordinarily left until the following spring when, 

 if the bud takes, flowers will be produced. These 

 plants can be moved only in the spring at great risk, 

 and should be carried over in the nursery beds until 

 the fall, when they may be moved. It therefore 

 takes a year from the time the seed is gathered before 

 the budded plant may be placed in its garden bed. 

 Other methods are to procure plants or cuttings of 

 the stock desired, place them in nursery rows in the 

 fall or following spring, and bud them likewise in 

 August, after which time the procedure is the same. 



On the other hand, with the majority of field- 

 grown, budded stock seUing at an average of fifty 

 cents apiece, the amateur may secure his plants in 

 one fall and have bloom the following spring, thereby 

 saving a year. 



A quicker method, but which requires the use of 

 a greenhouse, is to have the stocks budded in August, 

 and in the fall when the plants become dormant, 

 pot and give greenhouse care during the winter. Such 

 plants are put out in the spring after the season is 



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