The Culture of Flowers from Seeds 

 GODETIA 



Hardy annual 



THE GODETIA is a lasting and delightful annual. There are several 

 distinct colours, all of them attractive, and the plants are so profuse 

 in flowering that they are well adapted for massing in beds and 

 borders, where they produce very striking effects. Seed should be 

 sown in the open ground in March or April for summer display, and 

 again in September for spring flowering. The ordinary treatment of 

 hardy annuals will yield most satisfactory results, and as the plants 

 are robust in habit, each one should be allowed plenty of room to 

 develop its full proportions. 



GREVILLEA ROBUSTA 



Australian Oak. Greenhouse shrub 



IN its native country, New South Wales, this is a stately tree. Here 

 it is grown as a pot plant, and the finely cut, drooping, fern-like 

 foliage produces one of the most graceful decorative subjects we 

 possess. Its value is enhanced by the fact that it withstands the 

 baneful influences of gas, dust, and changes of temperature better 

 than the majority of table plants. 



Seedlings are easily raised by those who can exercise patience ; 

 and afterwards the simplest cool culture will suffice to grow hand- 

 some specimens. But we do not know any seed not even the 

 Auricula which is so long and so capricious in germinating. In all 

 cases where seed is sown in fairly rich soil, which has to be kept 

 constantly moist and undisturbed for a long period, there is a ten- 

 dency to sourness, especially on the surface. Free drainage will 

 do something towards preventing this. Another aid in the same 

 direction is to cover the seed with a layer of sand, and the sand with 

 a thin coating of ordinary potting soil. When the surface becomes 

 covered with moss, the coating of soil can be gently removed down 

 to the sand, and be replaced with fresh earth, without detriment to 

 the seeds. 



Sow at any time of the year, in 48-sized pots filled with rather firm 

 soil ; and as the seedlings straggle through and show two pairs of leaves, 

 pot them off singly, and give the shelter of a close pit or frame until 



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