PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



. Overhauled and arranged recently potted off 

 plants. Tuberose flowers are now produced in quantity 

 from bulbs that were planted in benches in greenhouse, 

 on August 1st. 42 50. 



SQth. Sowed large quantities of seed of Ampelopsis 

 Veitchii in shallow boxes. Sown thus early they make 

 fine plants for setting out in May; also seeds of Dracena 

 indivisa, Pandanus utilis and Latania Borbonica, and 

 other palm seeds were sown. 38 24. 



DECEMBER. 



2d. Potted off cuttings of Carnations and Pinks that 

 were put in on the llth of October; loss heavy, as they 

 have been put in two weeks too early. 27 28. 



3d. Potted off cuttings of Pentstemons, Antirrhinums, 

 etc., which were put in a month ago. Very successful. 

 30 35. 



4/A. Continued potting Roses, and putting in hard- 

 wood cuttings of Roses. 26 30. 



5th. Flowers of Bouvardias, Carnations, Heliotropes, 

 Roses, and Tuberoses, are now produced in large quanti- 

 ties from the plantations previously made, as recorded. 

 We find that in the planting out of Tuberose bulbs on 

 the 15th of July, 1st of August, and 15th of August, 

 those planted on the 1st of August give the most profita- 

 ble results; the first date being too early, brings them in 

 while the market is glutted, while by that of the 15th of 

 August, the bulbs get too much exhausted by being kept 

 dry too long out of season. Next season will put late 

 bulbs in "cold storage vaults." 26 28. 



6^. Finished potting Roses in five and six-inch pots. 

 The operation has occupied in the potting alone the time 

 of three hands for about three weeks, the average work 

 of each being eight hundred plants per day. 



1th. Put in cuttings of Verbenas, Carnations, Zonale 

 and Variegated Geraniums,Pelargoniums,and soft wooded 



