54 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Begonias into larger pots. Don't wet the foliage of the Gloxinias 

 too much; you want them for show during the Summer months, 

 and the same is true of the fancy-leaved Caladiums. 



JUNE 



BEDDING STOCK PROGRESS 



TO plant out a bench of your best Geraniums for stock is always 

 * a good investment when you use many thousands of them 

 each Spring. No good grower will wait to select his stock plants 

 until the end of the bedding season and take what is left. 



When things begin to thin out in the plant houses is the time 

 to keep on moving the remainders together. Your stock will look 

 better and is easier to take care of that way. Plant out enough 

 C annas for stock, but only the very best varieties, such as The Presi- 

 dent, Mrs. F. Conard, Hungaria and King Humbert, which are 

 among the most desirable of bedders today. 



Don't wait until the last variegated and green Yinca and 

 English Ivy are gone before you order more. You are not through 

 with your bedding plant season when your own stock is gone; keep 

 on preparing until there is no more demand. If you have grown on 

 enough Petunias from seed sown at different times and kept the 

 stock transplanted and shifted, you can always do business away 

 into July. 



Fig. 13. SETTING OUT HYDRANGEAS FROM POTS. No matter how much bedding 



out you have to do for your patrons for ornamental effect, of course you cannot 



afford to neglect setting out your own stock plants when it is time to do it 



