112 GROWING PLANTS UNDER GLASS ALL SU.NLMER 



house, how well taken care of the stock may be, or in what 

 splendid shape; yet such a plant has more resisting force, 

 and on that account will be less affected than one that has 

 suffered because of improper handling. 



If you are obliged to grow other stock with the Car- 

 nations in the same house, and you want success with the 

 Carnations, provide conditions and keep the house to suit 

 them and not the other stock, and you are on the right 

 road. Stock in a healthy growing condition is sending 

 up 24-in. to 30-in. stems at the end of February. This 

 means that you must support them properly and keep the 

 bad leaves picked off. 



Growing Plants Under Glass All Summer 



Some growers find it more convenient to pLant their 

 young stock in the benches immediately after the flowering 

 plants have been cleared out. In this case, the soil is re- 

 newed or sterihzed and the benches made clean and the 

 house hkewise made fresh and agreeable. Others adopt a 

 half-way system by planting the young stock outside as 

 early in the Spring as possible, close together in the rows, 

 say, 6 in. or 8 in. apart, just allowing enough run between 

 to work a hand cultivator. By the first of July, if pinching 

 has been carefully attended to, nice, bushy plants will 

 have resulted, and may be at once housed. The greatest 

 enemy to indoor culture is red spider. Immediately after 

 housing, the same care as mentioned in the general article 

 on cultivation has to be exercised. 



One of the principal drawbacks to growing the plants 

 inside, as was pointed out in a paper read before the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society at Buffalo in 1900, by Jas. Hartshorne, 



