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You can also pot hardy climbers and Ramblers now, and place 

 them with the perennials in a frame. 



With each week it becomes easier to bring Dutch bulb stock 

 into flower. It is easier and there is less loss, because you are getting 

 nearer its natural time of flowering. Be sure to provide a dark, 

 cool place for the plants in bloom; it wiU give you better finished 

 flowers and they will last longer. 



From now on, you wiU have no trouble in forcing Lily of the 

 Valley. 



By the middle or end of this month your stock plants of Chrys- 

 anthemum should be brought from the coldhouse to a 50-deg. 

 temperature. Plant them out if you have a sunny bench, where 

 they will soon be full of cuttings. These, when rooted, can be 

 planted out again as stock to take more cuttings from. 



Propagating Bench and Seed Bed 



With all kinds of bottom heat you can root almost anything 

 from a Cincinnati Begonia to Parlor Ivy. Carnations root best in a 

 house of 50 deg. with a Httle heat below the sand. Keep the sand 

 full of cuttings of bedding stock. Salvias rooted in February and 

 grown cool wiU make fine 4-in. stock by the end of May; the same 

 holds good with Fuchsias. 



Root variegated Vincas and English Ivies, of not too soft a 

 growth, now. Also root Ivy Geraniums, Rose Geraniums and 

 Lantanas and don't overlook the trailing Fuchsia for basket work. 



Lobelia, early Aster, Begonia, Coleus, Petunia, Dusty Miller, 

 Salvia, Ageratum, Thunbergia, Verbena, single Dahha, Pansy, For- 

 get-me-not, Pyrethrum and Coleus are only some of the many seeds 

 of bedding stock to be sown in early February. Also for early 

 flowering plants of Primula chinensis and P. obconica seed should 

 be sown. 



Miscellaneous 



Get ready early with advertising for St. Valentine's Day, 

 which each year grows more important. Watch your cut flower 

 crops a little and do not cut too close the week before, so as to have 

 a good supply on hand. Sweet Peas, Violets, Pansies, Forget-me-nots, 

 Freesias and Mignonette are aU desirable flowers for corsages. But 

 push flowering plants as weU — and that means that you must have a 

 stock of them on hand. 



Start tuberous-rooted Begonias, fancy-leaved Caladiums and 

 Gloxinias this month. Keep the Pelargoniums shifted. Place a 

 few Genistas in a Carnation house by the end of the month. It 

 is time to sow Asparagus plumosus and A. Sprengeri. 



Sweet Peas sown by the middle of the month wiU give you a 

 fine crop during May. 



