BOUVARDIA, BUDDLEIA 



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Fig. 113. BOUVARDIA HUMBOLDTII. This, 

 grandest of all Bouvardias, is easily grown 

 in a Carnation house temperature where it 

 flowers from early Fall up to the middle of 

 December. There is nothing more suitable 

 for a wedding bouquet, corsage spray or 

 wreath. The flowers are beautiful and 

 have a delightful Orange-blossom fragrance 



is withheld entirely. Shake 

 the plants out by the end of 

 January, cut them back and 

 pot them up into 5s or 6s. 

 These plants will easily be at 

 their best the second year, 

 and will beat any young 

 stock for flowering. 



CULTURAL NOTES ON OTHER 

 SORTS 



Among the hybrids and 

 the sorts we found forty years 

 ago in almost every green- 

 house we have such favorites 

 as Hogarth, brilliant scarlet; 

 Maiden's Blush, light rose, 

 and Alfred Neuner, double 

 white or creamy pink. All 

 these are smaller flowering 

 than B. Humboldtii and not 

 sweet scented, yet they are valuable cut flowers. The easiest 

 way to propagate them is to cut the roots into 1 -in. -long pieces about 

 February, when, usually, they are through flowering and scatter 

 them over a layer of sandy soil, either in flats, bulb pans or on the 

 propagating bench, with a good bottom heat; if you have no better 

 place, put the flats on the return hot water pipes. The cut pieces 

 of roots, of course, have to be covered with a thin layer of sand or 

 sandy soil and kept moist. Pot up the young plants later and treat 

 practically the same as those of B. Humboldtii and most other 

 flowers; plant them out and bench them by the end of August. 

 While they can get along in a house of 50 deg.,you will get better 

 results in one of 55 deg. 



For those interested, it might be said that any of these Bou- 

 vardias can be grown into attractive flowering pot plants. If grown 

 on in pots they should be carried outdoors during the Summer 

 months, the pots plunged up to their rims and the plants kept 

 pinched back. Don't shift after September, and if you keep them 

 in a 55-deg. house, after the first crop is off, they will flower again 

 during February. 



BUDDLEIA ASIATIGA 



Buddleia asiatica is a plant every florist should grow. It can 

 get along in a 48- or 50-deg. house; it grows in any soil; and, while not 

 a show flower, in its delightfully sweet fragrance it reminds you of 

 your favorite perfume. "A mixture of Freesia, Lily of the Valley and 



