446 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



NEPETA GLECHOMA VARIEGATA (VARIEGATED 

 GROUND IVY) 



This is one of the handsomest of the small-leaved climbers. 



With its beautifully variegated 

 Ivy-like leaves it is especially well 

 adapted for the rockery, for filling 

 hanging baskets or to go along the 

 edge of vases and porch boxes. 

 While rank growers during Spring 

 and Summer, the plants are ab- 

 solutely at a standstill during 

 Winter. If you grow a few on 

 for stock in pots, they will by 

 Fall have formed a regular mat, 

 covering any sized pot. Place 

 them in a coldframe or Violet 

 house; by early March divide 

 them into small pieces and pot 

 them up into 2^8. Every one, 

 if shifted later on, will make a 

 bushy plant for which you will 

 find good use. 



NIEREMBERGIA (CUP 

 FLOWER) 



Nierembergias make fine trail- 

 ing, flowering plants for vases, 

 baskets and porch boxes. They 

 come with blue and with white 

 flowers on wiry stems. There 

 was a time when almost every 

 vase or rustic tub filled with plants 

 had a few of them in the assort- 

 ment, but today we have most 

 call for either red or pink effects, 

 and vases and boxes are usually 

 filled with just one thing which may 

 be Geraniums or Petunias. Here 

 and there, however, we find a 

 customer who prefers a good assort- 

 ment and that is the time you 

 can use Nierembergias. Sow 

 seed about November and carry 

 the plants along in a cool 

 house, shifting them several 

 times. TV. frutescens is the blue, 



Fig. 217. NEPETA GLECHOMA. The 

 variegated Glechoma or Ground Ivy 

 makes an excellent trailing plant for 

 hanging baskets, vases, etc. This is a 

 plant in a 4-in. pot three months after 

 the cuttings were rooted, four of them 

 to a 23^-in. pot 



