340 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



CARRYING PLANTS OVER THE SECOND SUMMER 



Plants which have been in 2j/2-in. pots up to March or so, and 

 are shifted during April into 3j^-in. pots should have not less than 

 a 50-deg. house; a couple of degrees over that won't hurt. On 

 sunny days always spray them about noon. See to it that not only 

 the soil in the pots but also that between the pots and the surface 

 of the bench is always moist. From April on, and during Spring, 

 the house where you grow good Geraniums, Fuchsias and Petunias 

 makes a good Cyclamen house. With daily waterings in such a 

 house, sunny days to warm things up to 70 deg., or even a little 

 over, and just enough fire at night to prevent a damp, cold, stuffy 

 atmosphere, you have the ideal growing conditions for Cyclamens. 

 Then, with a porous soil in the pots and good drainage, it is just a 

 matter of keeping up these same conditions right along. It will 

 get warmer, of course, as you go on and no fire will be needed after 

 awhile, but there is a difference between having a couple of hundred 

 Cyclamens standing on a bench by themselves in a house with 

 the other benches empty, and having them with other stock, all 

 growing and being watered every day. 



I would just as soon have a 10-ft. sash house without concrete 

 walks to carry the plants in during Summer, for that is the ideal 

 place for growing things in hot weather, much as we appreciate, 

 during the dark Winter months, the 50-ft. wide house and all 

 that goes with it. A Cyclamen plant that, three weeks or so 



Fig. 140. A BENCH OF CYCLAMEN. This is the way Cyclamen look when well 



treated, but it means constant care and watchfulness for from sixteen to eighteen 



months. Yet we find more florists than ever succeeding with them 





