I20 HOME FLORICULTURE 



it is an extremely difficult matter to select the best. 

 If you want to order, and do not know what to select 

 from the catalogs, tell the dealer to whom the order 

 is sent as nearly as possible what you want, and let 

 liim make the selection for you. I am quite sure you 

 will be as well suited as you would be if you were 

 to make the selection yourself, from the descriptions 

 given. 



Plants of three and four years of age, as sent 

 out by the dealers, are almost always trained to a 

 low tree form. They will be from a foot to a foot 

 and a half in hight, with a round, dense head of many 

 small branches, as seen in Fig 24. The annual growth 

 is not extensive, so that it takes a long time for a 

 plant to become very large. 



The Caviellia 



This once popular plant has fallen into disfavor 

 because of its habit of dropping its buds before they 

 are developed. The plant, however, is seldom as much 

 to blame as its owner is. It forms its buds in summer 

 :nonths before blooming, when it makes its annual 

 •Towth. After this period is when the danger comes 

 in. If it is allowed to get dry at its roots its buds will 

 fall, and if its soil is kept too wet, the same thing will 

 happen. If the plant is given a cool, airy, shady 

 place in summer, and care is taken to keep the soil 

 evenly moist, all the time — and this can be done by 

 watching it carefully — and too much heat is not given 

 it, in fall, when brought into the house, and the air 

 is kept moist as possible by frequent showerings, the 

 amateur can grow it with reasonable hope of success. 

 It is a superbly beautiful plant for rather cool rooms 

 where the temperature fluctuates but little. Its flowers 

 are produced in winter. They are of white, rose, 

 cherry, salmon and red, perfect in form as any Rose, 



