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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



bloomers. For example, if we take those 

 late gloxinias which have not flowered at 

 the time of drying off the rest, move them 

 to a warm place and water freely, growth 

 will continue so that flowers will come as an 

 acceptable time. I have had gloxinias as 

 late as Thanksgiving and even later. There 

 were among my achimenes a small scarlet 

 variety, unnamed, which was quite willing 

 to flower in winter and often the early 

 started summer plants would continue in 

 bloom late into the fall. This is true of 

 some varieties of tuberous begonias when 

 grown in pots. 



August is too late to sow seeds of prim- 

 roses, cinerarias, etc. for early winter 

 blooms, but just the time for making attrac- 

 tive specimens for spring. The plants of 

 these for early blooming should now be 

 making vigorous growth and be repotted 

 quite often. They require a shaded place. 



It will require some careful attention 

 during the summer to keep insects from 

 cinerarias, for the aphis is particularly fond 



of it, and when once established it takes 

 considerable to dislodge him without injury 

 to the plants. 



In the recent improvements made in that 

 grand flower, the chrysanthemum, we have 

 a nice number and variety of late blooming 

 sorts which add greatly to the attractiveness 

 of the window garden in late fall and early 

 winter. If more plants of these late kinds 

 than are needed to simply fill up the window 

 be grown, and retarded by keeping them in 

 a cold room after the buds have just begun 

 to open, the season is easily prolonged 

 through the holidays, but the blooms never 

 seem to be as lasting when once allowed to 

 open as those which had no interference 

 with their natural course. 



Watering of plants for winter blooming 

 especially should be given careful attention, 

 as a stint in this direction during hot 

 weather cannot result in anything short of 

 positive injury, and therefore decreasing the 

 supplv of bloom. — Popular Gardening. 



SPIREA PRUNIFOLIA FLORE-PLENO. 



Fig. 2131. 



Double Flowering Spirea 

 Prunifolia. 



'HIS pretty dwarf growing double 

 Spirea is by no means a new intro- 

 duction to the list of flowering shrubs, 

 as it was introduced from China and Japan 



over half a century ago. It is one of the 

 best of our early flowering hardy shrubs 

 and gives splendid flowering results, requir- 

 ing scarcely any care and attention except 

 perhaps to cut out a few of its strongest 

 growing spikes of bloom, so as to keep the 

 bush looking uniform and symmetrical. 

 This shrub comes into flower early in May 

 and continues in flower usually until well 

 into June, retaining its pretty little daisy-like 

 blossoms that it produces so freely in fas- 

 cicles that almost cover its long slender 

 branches. In a collection of only five or six 

 flowering shrubs this pretty, easily grown, 

 dwarf spirea cannot well be dispensed with. 

 The specimen shown in the photo has been 

 planted about fifteen years and has given 

 annually its full quota of snow-white blos- 

 soms. W. Hunt. 



