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nor a bench full of it; but if you retail the flowers you grow at home 

 you should at least have a few plants along the edge of the Carnation 

 bench to cut from. It flowers from Fall until Spring, and since 

 you can use it with almost any other flower, it is excellent for design 

 work. 



You can grow Agathaeas from seed. Out of the plants you get 

 that way select one or two of the very best and after that propagate 

 from cuttings, which root easily during the early Spring months. 

 Grow the young stock on in pots, and by August plant out either 

 along the edge of a Carnation bench, or on a bench by itself. If you 

 grow a few plants there is bound to come a time during the Winter 

 months when the flowers will come in very handy. 



AGERATUM 



Owing to their beautiful shades of blue, their free flowering 

 quahties, and their easy culture, the Ageratums are not only becom- 

 ing more popular every year, but also, from the florist's standpoint, 

 are becoming more important as bedders to be sold to his customers, 

 and for cut flowers. 



We have named varieties ranging from dwarf to tall sorts. If 

 you want a bed or border of just one color, by aU means plant named 

 sorts grown from cuttings, but if you need Ageratums for cut flowers 

 or plants in 3M- or 4-in. pots in bloom by the middle of May, sow 

 seed of Blue Perfection, or some other tall sort, by the middle of 

 February and grow on in a 50-deg. house. 



If you need blue in a window box, Ageratum is the thing to use. 

 If you want to grow stock from cuttings, lift a few field plants in 

 FaU, pot them into 6s, cut back a little and keep in a 50-deg. house. 

 By the end of January, and from then on, you can take cuttings 

 every week. But almost as cheap a way, and an even better one, 

 is to purchase your rooted cuttings from the wholesale grower. 

 Such cuttings in 2H-in. pots by the first of AprU will make bushy 

 plants in fuU bloom by the end of May. 



Ageratum Fraseri is one of the latest introductions, and one of 

 the best bedders of aU, growing about 8 in. in height and flowering 

 continuously all Summer. 



AKEBIA QUINATA 



If you handle hardy chmb ng plants, which many of your cus- 

 tomers prefer to the annual ones, you wiU have caUs for Akebias. 

 Their clean, Cloverleaf-like foliage stays green away into Fall, and 

 the small, sweet-scented blossoms appear in July. The vines will 

 cfing to woodwork or brick, and are really adapted for porches only 

 where you can support them on wire. 



When you order your other chmbers from the nurseryman, 

 include just a few Akebias and pot them up so they can be planted 



