Stove and Greenhouse Plants and Flowers 



through shades of purple, many varieties being gorgeously striped or 

 spotted with other quite distinct shades. Amongst the most popular 

 coloured varieties the following may be mentioned: Apollo, bright red, 

 semi-double; Marc Rouman dEribuer, deep crimson, double; Flambeau, 

 magenta red; Ferdinand Kegeljan, deep rose, upper petal speckled; Mar- 

 quis of Lorne, bright fiery red ; Comtesse de Flandres, magenta rose, very 

 large; Anna Klein, double white, sometimes splashed and spotted with 

 red; Alexander II, blush, speckled crimson; Prof. Walters, blush white, 

 upper petal speckled deep rose; Oberst von Kutsinsky, scarlet, double; 

 Spitfire, brilliant crimson scar- 

 let, double; Theodore Riemers, 

 clear magenta purple, double; 

 Vervceneana, double white, rose 

 centre, upper petal heavily 

 blotched with crimson; Eclair, 

 deep brilliant crimson; Lady 

 Roosevelt, clear flesh pink, semi- 

 double; Rudolf Seidel, deep flesh 

 pink, splashed with crimson. 



For cut flowers some growers 

 still grow large specimen plants 

 of the old "Fielder's White" 

 Azalea a beautifully pure- white 

 single- flowered form. Quite large 

 plants, from 38 ft. high, are 

 grown in pots or tubs, and are 

 forced into early bloom for 

 Christmas and onwards. The 

 flowers are bunched up in dozens, 

 two or three on a stalk cut as 

 long as possible, each individual 

 bloom being gummed before- 

 hand. After standing in water 



for an hour or two, the flowers are carefully packed in shallow boxes 

 and protected with tissue paper. Sometimes they realize good prices, from 

 3s. to 6s. per dozen bunches, but at other times they are a drug in the 

 market. For wreath work and funeral emblems generally, this pure-white 

 Azalea is difficult to beat. Other good white varieties are alba, alba 

 magna, and magniftque. 



Amongst the double whites useful for the cut-flower trade are Deutsche 

 Perle (fig. 262), Borsig, narcissiflora, Flag of Truce, Madeleine, Reine de 

 Portugal, Bernard Andrea alba, Eros, Niobe, Sakountala, &c. (See also 

 fig. 263.) 



After Azaleas have finished flowering they should be pruned and 

 thinned out, and then grown on in a warm greenhouse temperature and 

 well syringed in the morning and afternoon, in addition to giving fair 



Fig. 263. Azalea indica, single 



