432 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Easter plant. Boston Yellow, which is a good strain of that 

 color, makes a profitable indoor crop to grow for Winter and 

 Spring and there are growers who do it successfully either planted 

 out on benches, in solid beds, or in large pots. With pots, however, 

 there is apt to be a lack of stem. On the other hand, you can cut 

 earlier flowers from such plants than from those planted out where 

 they haven't a chance to become potbound. Another way to make 

 them flower is to grow them in pots, enlarging the hole in the bottom 

 a little, and plunging the pots up to the rim in soil. 



For Winter flowering, a Carnation house temperature is about 

 right and it is well to start in Fall with established pot plants. For 

 Spring, use plants such as you want for window or porch boxes. 

 Cuttings should be rooted during late Fall and Winter and the 

 plants kept shifted up to April. For Easter flowering in pots, 

 you can take 2^-in. stock in flower and make up showy pans; or 

 cuttings rooted in late Summer may be grown on in a cool house, 

 keeping the plants shifted until they get into 5-, 6-, and 7-in. pots. 



Fig. 207. A HOUSE OF FEVERFEW. This is the way Nelson of Framingham, Mass., 

 grows Feverfew for early Spring. To get a crop like this in time for Mother's Day 



is well worth trying 



