CHAPTER VI 

 IMPORTANT FLORISTS' PLANTS 



ARAUCARIA Seed Cuttings Grafting ARDISIA Cuttings Seed - 

 Air Layers C ARNATI ONS Cuttings Sports CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 Propagation Stock Plants FERNS Life History Collecting 

 Spores Soil for Sowing Sowing Hybridizing Division Run- 

 ners Bulblets Tip Layers Tubers Top Layers LILIES 

 Easter Lily From Seed Madonna Lily Seed Scales Stems 

 Bulb Crossing ORCHIDS Division and Cuttings Seed PALMS 

 Kentia Phoenix Areca Cocos Latania Rhapis Sabal 

 POINSETTIA ROSES Seed Hardwood Cuttings Softwood 

 Cuttings of Outdoor Sorts Indoor Cuttings of Commercial Roses 

 Summer Cuttings Grafting and Budding Rose Stocks Manetti 

 Ganina Carolina Multiflora Setigera Rugosa Grafted 

 vs. Own Root Roses Grafting to Increase Yield Grafting Case 

 Preparation for Grafting Grafting Operations Budding Roses 

 Root Cuttings Layers Trenching Method Seedling Inarch 

 Rapid Method of Increasing New Varieties VIOLET Improving 

 Violet Crop. 



ARAUCARIA Norfolk Island Pine 



Seed. Araucaria excelsa is a native of New Zealand. Seeds may 

 be obtained there or possibly from import houses. Plants raised from 

 seed are not satisfactory, since their lower branches are short, they are 

 narrow at the base. Such plants, are, however, useful as stocks or as 

 a source of cuttings. 



Cuttings. Good cuttings may be taken from the ripened tops of 

 the seedlings during Winter or early Spring. When cut back, a plant 

 sends up a group of leaders which are also useful for cuttings. The 

 cuttings should have several tiers of branches. C. Wm. Hess, in The 

 Florists' Exchange, says that after the cuttings are taken they should be 

 allowed to dry out for a day, then potted with sharp sand in the top 

 half of the pot and good soil in the bottom. Place them in a propa- 

 gating case, keeping them cool (60 degrees), but covering the frame. 

 In three weeks the cuttings will have rooted and should then be repotted 

 into light soil, kept growing for a time in the greenhouse and then placed 

 in lath houses. 



Cuttings from side shoots do not make symmetrical plants but they 

 may be rooted, cut back and grown to furnish a source of leader cutting 

 material. 



Grafting. Hess writes: "Varieties such as A. compacta, A. robusta 

 and A. Baumannii are grafted either on seedlings or on misshaped 



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