AZALEA CULTURE. 



a day until the next spring, February or March, when the 

 plants will be one year old from grafts, or two years old 

 from cuttings. At this time they will require re-potting, 

 and should be ready for four-inch pots. Many of them 

 should produce from two to four flowers. 



A portion of the young growth that they 

 will make this spring can be used for cuttings 

 or grafts. This will also tend to give them 

 fine heads for the following fall, with flower 

 buds. Kemove to the open air in May, as 

 before. 



The coming fall, which is the second year 

 from graft or the third year from cutting, 

 they should be finely shaped and well 

 budded, and should have the appearance of 

 figure 25. At present prices they are worth 

 twenty-five dollars per hundred, trade price. 

 The same retail at fifty cents a piece, or five 

 dollars a dozen. 

 Treat as described for the previous winter. 

 The spring of the following year the plants should be 

 good, producing from twenty to forty flowers. 



The plants at this age will give quantities of cuttings 

 and grafts. 



Many of them will require five-inch pots. 

 Keep the plants well topped with a view of having good 

 round heads for the fall of the third year. They should 

 have somewhat the appearance of figure 26. The fall of 

 this the third season from the graft, the plants will be 

 shapely, and of good size, well covered with flower 



Fig. 24. 



Grafted plant 

 topped. 



