POTTING AND GROWING ON 



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With the approach of the warmer weather of April, the green 

 aphis will inevitably swarm to attack the plants. It comes, appar- 

 ently, from nowhere, and quickly crowds the top grass. If undis- 

 turbed, it can work great havoc in a very few days, havoc that may 

 well be irremediable, but the prudent man has not awaited its 

 attack he has foreseen and forestalled it ; his remedies are already 

 to his hand, either in the form of shreds, vaporiser, or cyanide. 

 With either of these he makes an intensive onslaught, and after 



FIG. 4. A Cutting newly 

 Potted 



FIG. 5. Stopped 



destroying his existing enemies he prevents the approach of others 

 by a periodic resort to fumigation at frequent intervals. 



A very important operation must be put in hand upon those 

 plants which are kept, and that is the " stopping,'* and though experi- 

 ence teaches us that better breaks may be obtained if the plants have 

 already been potted on, it frequently happens that they are sufficiently 

 advanced before this can be done, and it is essential that the stop- 

 ping is done directly the plants are ready for it. See Fig. 5. On 

 the whole, we think it advisable to select plants for growing on at 

 quite an early date, and not to lose a chance by holding all the stock 

 to await the exigencies of sale. To wait and pot up unsolds only 

 must be the worst policy for anyone who is desirous of making 



