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in the full sunlight, the soil, being shallow, dries out, so that 

 on a sunny April day, while yet the plants are under glass, 

 they should be watered morning and evening. It is a great 

 advantage then to remove them to a cold frame to harden 

 and strengthen them. 



Our own firm opinion is, that it is up to the nurseryman to 

 show what an Antirrhinum is capable of, and thus do his best 

 to promote its popularity and increase the demand. 



Market men will have noted what a splendid subject this is 

 for a pot plant to bloom in April, and will have admired the thick 

 heavy foliage and the massive flowers brought on to the market. 

 The 48-sized pot is the one generally used, and there is yet 

 some room for developing this line. They can be grown in spare 

 frames or in cold houses, even under peaches and vines. A 

 little old cow manure in the bottom of the pot will do wonders 

 in promoting a deep green foliage and large flowers, for though 

 this is a plant exceedingly tenacious of life, thriving in any 

 cranny or crack it can anchor a root to, it undoubtedly does its 

 best when the treatment is good and the soil enriched. 



CANNAS (INDIAN SHOT) 



The Canna will always find a useful place in garden schemes, 

 and nowhere more so than in the informal, natural borders 

 now so widely taking the place of the formal and artificial. 

 Its bold, upstanding and conspicuous foliage, combined with 

 the richness, lightness and elegance of its flowers, imparts a 

 somewhat tropical tone to the beds, lifting them far above the 

 ordinary stereotyped bedding we have grown a-weary of. Grown 

 as pot plants, our illustration shows how useful they are. 



There are several named varieties of the Canna, but their 

 propagation by divisions of the roots is not a very rapid one, 

 for it takes quite a good plant to quadruple itself in any one 

 season. Still, as this is practically the only way of propagating 

 named varieties, it has to suffice. 



After the plant has bloomed, its foliage dies off and the roots 

 are stowed away for the winter. In early spring they are 

 overhauled, divided and potted up in a soil containing a 

 modicum of sandy peat. As a matter of fact, the finest 



