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serves to keep the soil from washing, facilitates the passage of moist 

 air and by shading prevents the surface soil from drying. When 

 the seedlings grow they force their way through the gravel and for 

 some time appear small and globular. They are tender, juicy and 

 readily damp-off. The temperature should be about 70 degrees. 

 Transplant into flats of similar soil when several spines have formed 

 on the plants. 



FLORISTS' SEED TIME TABLE 



Abutilon. Flowering Maple. Sow seed in Spring; blooms in Fall. 

 Acacia. A. Baileyana, A. cyanophylla and A. podalynsefoha are good 



from seed. To soften seed coat pour boiling water over them and 



let stand eight to ten hours; 55-60 degrees. Germinate two to 



six weeks. Use sand, leaf mold and loam. 

 Acanophcenix. Many seeds remain two years before germination; 



70 degrees. (See other palms, p. 158.) 

 Alocasia. Use peaty soil; 75 degrees. 

 Annuals. Half hardy. Sow in flats or pots in March. Hardy, bow 



in April or later out of doors. (See list on page 176.) 

 Ardisia. (See page 144.) 



Asparagus? 6 Sow in February or when seed is ripe, in flats; 70 degrees. 



Shade till germinated. 



Beffonia. B. semper jlorens. Sow thinly in January or February in 

 flats or pots. Use leaf mold and soil. Bottom heat 75-80 degrees; 

 ten days to germinate. Thick sowing causes damping-oft. 

 Tuberous. Sow in January or February. Use one part leat mold, 



one sand one loam. Germinate in three weeks; 70 degrees. 

 Bellis or English Daisy. Sow in August in coldframe; in January 



in greenhouse. Shade until seedlings are well up. 

 Buddleia. February. Cuttings preferred. 

 Calceolaria. January, February or June. (See page 31.) 

 Camellia. Soak seeds in warm water. Sow in sandy peat soil. 



minate in four to six weeks. 



Carludovica. (See culture for Kentia, page 158.) 



* Cineraria. Sow in May for Christmas; August 15 for Easter; Sep- 

 tember 15 for succession. 



Cocos. (See page 160.) _ 



Cyclamen. July to January in flats; fifteen months to bloom Irom 

 seed. Use leaf mold and light soil. Germinate three to four weeks; 

 55-60 degrees. 



Dracaena. D. indwisa. February. Sandy soil; 65 degrees. 

 Dusty Miller. January to March. Light soil. 

 English Daisy. (See Bellis.) 

 Gesneria. January. (See page 31.) 

 Gloxinia. January to February. Flats. (See page 31.) 

 Grevillea. (Silk Oak.) December to March. Flats; 50 degrees. 

 Jerusalem Cherry. January to March according to size ot plant 



wanted. Flats; 60 degrees. 

 Kentia. (See page 158.) 



