FEBEUARY NOTES 



FEBRUARY NOTES-NOVELTIES— CARNATIONS— FUCH- 

 SIAS — CELLAR PLANTS - EARLY SEED SOWING — 

 GIVING AIR — PROTECTING WINDOW PLANTS. 



BY 



VVM. HUNT, 



SUPT. GREENHOUSES, O. A. C, GUELPH. 



FEBRUARY may be fairly termed 

 "catalogue" month, as these use- 

 ful advance heralds of busy spring 

 time usually make their appearance during 

 this month. 



In making your selection of seeds and 

 plants do not discard well tested varieties 

 that have proved useful and suitable, for 

 novelties that often turn out to be miserable 

 frauds or failures. Place the "novelties" 

 down on your list of seeds or plants as 

 "extras," your disappointments will then 

 be felt less keenly, and your successes be an 

 additional pleasure if some new or novel 

 plant or flower of real merit is added to 

 your collection. 



Order your seeds and plants early, and 

 avoid the early spring rush, and consequent 

 delay. 



WINDOW PLANTS. 



Carnations. — Although these are not 

 considered to be really good window plants, 

 yet one sometimes sees a nice specimen 

 plant in a window where the temperature of 

 the room is not too high, and the atmos- 

 phere consequently not as dry as where a 

 high temperature prevails. Carnations like 

 a moist atmosphere and a moderate temper- 

 ature. A temperature of 45° at night and 

 60° in the day time suits them admirably. 

 Red Spider is the bane of the Carnation 

 amongst insect pests, and is generally the 

 cause of failure with these sweet-scented 

 favorites. Syringing the foliage, or dipping 

 the growth of the plant in a pail of water on 



fine sunny days is the best preventive or 

 remedy for these almost imperceptible but 

 destructive enemies to successful carnation 

 culture, both in the window and greenhouse. 

 When the growth of carnations begin to 

 assume an unnatural, whitish appearance, 

 you may be pretty well assured that these 

 pests have started out on their work of 



Fig. 2537. Carnation. 



