AZALEA CULTURE. 



Each plant at this age 

 will produce from six to 

 eight cuttings or five 

 times that number of 

 grafts. 



Remove the plants 

 to the open air, plunging 

 them in sand and using 

 the precautions for set- 

 ing out that were used 

 the previous year, not for- 

 getting to syringe daily. 

 The fall of this season 

 the plants will be two 

 and a half years old. 



P. They should be well 



Engraving two years old plant. budded and finely shaped, 

 and will command, at trade price, twenty dollars per 

 hundred, or five dollars a dozen, retail. 



Figure 12 represents a plant two and a half years old 

 in a four-inch pot, in September. Use the same treatment 

 as for former years. 



The third year re-pot all Azaleas that need it dur- 

 ing the month of February or March before they make 

 their young growth. 



The fresh soil will greatly benefit both the young 

 growth and the flowers. 



Top all shoots and use them for cuttings, as you did 

 in previous years. Put the plants outside at the proper 

 time. 



