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foliage, and it was very effective. It was a mistake to plant it in 

 rich ground for it flowers better in poor soil. It proved very satis- 

 factory to his people and he was going to use it again this year. It 

 blooms from frost to frost. 



James Wheeler said that he had found N. Sanderoe grown in pots 

 in the ground very satisfactory. It blooms much better if the pot 

 is plunged in the ground and if pot bound it is all the better for it. 



Mr. Craig was asked to recommend plants suitable for growing 

 in window boxes. He replied by saying that the best plant for the 

 purpose that he could call to mind was the Tom Thumb nastur- 

 tium; it was a persistent bloomer and he knew of nothing so satis- 

 factory. Sweet alyssum came next and scarlet geraniums were 

 good. Plants with a drooping tendency should be used for the win- 

 dow box. There was not sufficient depth of earth for sweet peas, 

 and zinnias were too coarse and stiff. 



Mr. Finlayson suggested petunias as desirable for the window 

 box, and said there were several varieties on the market which 

 would be excellent for the purpose. 



John L. Chapman said he had done well with Nicotiana San- 

 derce as a pot plant, and called attention to the claims of the single 

 varieties of geraniums for the summer garden. 



]Mr. Craig said that we are too apt to get down to a commercial 

 basis on everything, even to geraniums, and that while the market 

 called for double flowers he thought that the large single-flowered 

 geraniums were more desirable. He said that those grown in five 

 or six-inch pots were destined to be very popular here among the 

 florists, and he could not imagine a better Christmas plant than 

 some of these single-flowered varieties of the geranium. Particu- 

 larly desirable are Richmond Beauty, Jacquerie, and Paul Crampel 

 for Christmas colors. 



Thaddeus Friend spoke of his experiences with sweet peas the 

 past season which had been unfortunate. They came up well and 

 progressed as far as the budding stage but got,no farther. They 

 had always done well in previous years. Perhaps the season was 

 wrong, he said, or perhaps he had planted them during the wrong 

 quarter of the moon. He had planted the seed late. 



Mr. Craig said that they were probably planted too late to obtain 

 any results, although sometimes the flowering stems will die down. 



