520 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



If you desire a couple of the best hardy dwarf sorts, never over 

 five inches in height, for rockery planting, S. stolonifera with pink 

 flowers is a good one and S. acre (Golden Moss) has yellow flowers 

 and is very hardy when once established. 



SEA LAVENDER 



See Staiice 



SENECIO SCANDENS (GERMAN IVY) 



The time when you appreciate this Ivy is when you have 

 window or porch boxes to fill in Spring. These boxes are to go up 

 on the second or third story and vines are wanted along the edges 

 to hang down ten or fifteen feet before the Summer is over. In 

 such cases there is no plant that will take the place of German Ivy. 

 Plant your green or variegated-leaved Vincas, but in between plant 

 every fifteen or eighteen inches a 2^-in. German Ivy. By the middle 

 of July, if you have not neglected the watering, you will find them 

 away ahead of the Vincas. 



Pot up a few plants in the Fall and overwinter them in a cool 

 house to take cuttings from during Winter. There is nothing easier 

 to root, nor anything outside of a Cineraria or Calceolaria of which 

 the green fly is as fond. 



SENSITIVE PLANT 



See Mimosa 



SHASTA DAISY 



A perennial border is never too small nor too large to have a 

 few good-sized clumps of Shasta Daisies in it. Everybody likes 

 Daisies, especially those of the size of Alaska; and even these you 

 can improve upon by selecting the finest flowers for seed and keep- 

 ing on doing so. 



Shasta Daisies are fine plants for the hardy border, flowering 

 until Fall. You can dispose of a good number of plants each Spring 

 and Fall and have a few rows in the field to cut from during Sum- 

 mer. You can bring plants into bloom with gentle heat under glass 

 in Spring; so they should be considered valuable stock for the florist. 



If seed of Shasta Daisies is sown out in February and the plants 

 are carried in flats and planted out in early May, they will usually 

 start to flower by the end of June and keep it up until Fall. But 

 they will be at their best the following Summer. We consider them 

 perfectly hardy, but every once in awhile we lose them. It doesn't 

 always take a severe Winter to do it, and for this reason it is well to 

 always lift a part of your field stock and carry it over in a frame. 

 Also always sow out a little seed each year so as to have young 

 stock coming along. You can save your own seed without any 



