NOTES ON WINDOW PLANTS 



RENEWING A GERANIUM-HOW TO WINTER 

 A CHRYSANTHEMUM— ROOT DIVISIONS -POT- 

 TING — WATERING — EXCELLENT POINTERS 



BY 



WM. HUNT, 



SUPr. GRKKNHOUSES, O. A. C, GUELPH, ONT. 



Fig. 2528. Ger\nium "White Swan " reclmmed 

 BY Proper Treatment. 



IN THE July number of Horticulturist two 

 cuts are shown of a geranium plant that 

 had become gaunt and unsightly looking 

 from having been grown indoors for a long 

 time. The cuts mentioned gave an illustra- 

 tion of the plant before and after the cutting 

 back process. 



The accompanying cut (Fig. 2528), from 

 a photo, shows the same plant as it appeared 

 early in November after having been grown 

 in summer as recommended in above mem- 

 tioned number of this journal. Although 



the variety shown (The White Swan) is not. 

 one of the best for winter flowering pur-« 

 poses, it serves to illustrate what can be 

 done — by only ordinary treatment — to re- 

 claim an old unsightly looking geranium 

 plant, and make it a nice bushy plant for 

 the window in winter. This plant was 

 grown outside in the open without the as- 

 sistance of a greenhouse or sash, and with- 

 out any special skill being bestowed on its 

 culture. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Some readers of the journal may, perhaps, 

 have a chrysanthemum plant in their posses- 

 sion that has done flowering, and although 

 anxious to keep it over for another season, 

 or grow some young plants from it, scarcely 

 know how to proceed so as to carry it safely 

 through the winter. 



I must first of all, however, say that from 

 a commercial or professional point of view, 

 I do not consider it worth the trouble and 

 risk to attempt to keep over old chrysanthe- 

 mum plants for flowering purposes the fol- 

 lowing season. At the same time amateur 

 flower lovers do not always make as close 

 an estimate on returns for labor expended 

 as commercial florists have of necessity to 

 do in connection with plant culture. 



Taking the latter fact into consideration 

 and making due allowance for a little laud- 

 aole sentiment in this respect I will endeavor 

 to give a few hints that may be of use to 



