64 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



You may consider sowing out a few Pansies by the middle of 

 September in a frame where they can remain all Winter and be 

 transplanted the following Spring. 



Keep up the cultivating outdoors; do not let Winter find you 

 with a lot of weeds among the hardy stock or the conifers. Are 

 you pushing Fall planting and outdoor work ? Let folks know about 

 it. Call their attention to the fact that you are in the ring. There 

 is always more or less of such work to be done, and frequently 

 people do not think about it until reminded of it. Every florist 

 located in a country town can and should work up this branch. 

 There is money in it, and so there is in Fall bulbs. 



Start to make an attractive display right now and keep on 

 adding to it, as more bulbs come in. Advertise in your local paper 

 and keep it up. You needn't lose a single one of the bulbs you have 

 on display; what is left over you can use yourself later on. Who is 

 there better fitted to handle bulbs for Winter and Spring flowermg 

 than the local florist of a town? Who is there better able to talk 

 to people about the different varieties and what they are best 

 adapted for than he? We haven't started yet to take advantage 

 of the great money making possibihties there are in retailing bulbs 

 in Fall. Millions more of them could be disposed of if they were 

 pushed. A lot more people could enjoy their beautiful flowers, and 

 a lot more florists gain much by handling them. 



OCTOBER 



Fall Work Outdoors 



VOU may have lifted some of your Cleveland Cherries already, 

 *^ and brought them into a frame or indoors; if there are any more 

 to be lifted do it at once. September really is the best month to 

 hft and pot these Cherries, Dracaenas and Stevias; they seem to 

 become re-established so much quicker. 



From the end of September on, there is no telling how soon a 

 heavy frost may come along to cut everything down or check things. 

 Whatever there is to be brought indoors that will suffer in the least 

 from frost, should, therefore, be brought in at once. 



Pot up the Hydrangeas. If lifted carefuUy they will not lose 

 their leaves, and if placed in a coldframe they will keep on making 

 roots and become nicely potbound before Winter sets in. Roses 

 outdoors in pots intended for forcing should be gradually hardened 

 and gotten into a dormant condition. You do not want soft growth; 

 the better ripened the wood is, the easier and better they force, and 

 the more flowers they bear. Gradu^y withhold water and keep 

 them a little on the dry side. You can do this with the pot plants 

 which, if necessary, can be laid on their side toward the end of the 



