AZALEA CULTURE. 



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or two flowers on each. Perhaps only one -fourth of your 

 stock will bloom. Flowers should not be looked for on 

 this sized plants ; rather encourage them to grow. 

 Although tho plants are small and in three-inch pots, they 

 are worth, at present prices for named varieties, ten dollars 

 per hundred. The same retail for twenty-five cents each, 

 or two dollars and forty cents per dozen. 



The middle of September the plants should have the 

 appearance of figure 10. 



Remove to the greenhouse 

 benches before there is any 

 danger of frost. 



Syringe once or twice a 

 day according to the heat in 

 the house. 



Young plants of Azaleas 

 thrive best in a cool house. 



The following March or 

 April the plants will be two 

 years old and most of them 

 will require a four-inch pot. 

 They each will have perhaps 

 from two to three flowers, as 

 figure 11 represents. They 

 are worth, at wholesale price, 

 fifteen dollars per hundred. 

 After making their growth the second season take the 

 the tops from such shoots as are getting long, or from those 

 which give the plant an unsightly appearance. 

 This wood can be used for cuttings. 



Fig. 10. 



Engraving eighteen months 

 old plant. 



