294 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



You can sow and plant Calendulas all Winter, and a nice batch 

 of 23/^-in. stock on hand often comes in handy when some other 

 crops have failed. After January, and as we approach Spring, a 

 temperature of 50 deg. won't hurt in the least. For a good crop 

 during May, sow out about the end of February and plant in sohd 

 beds in deeply cultivated, heavily manured soil, and you will cut 

 the largest flowers of the whole season. 



For Outdoor Flowering 



You will hardly find it profitable to have Calendulas in flower 

 during the Midsummer months, but even in locahties where the 

 ground of an old Calendula bed is full of small plants by May, it 

 usually pays the florist to have a few rows in his hotbed devoted to 

 plants to be sold along with his other annuals. If a crop of flowers is 

 wanted by the end of September and during October, a time when 

 the plants which have been flowering all Summer are played out, sow 

 seed in rows in the open about July fifteenth, or even a little later. 



Varieties 



There are many sorts, but usually the florist selects Orange 

 Prince as the most desirable. While culture has everything to do 

 with the size of the flowers and stems one obtains, there are offered 

 today several selected strains of Orange Prince, the seed of which 



is saved from the best flowers 

 from selected stock grown 

 under glass, which really 

 should prove superior to ordi- 

 nary stock, especially for in- 

 door culture. 



CALLAS 



It is a mighty fine thing to be 

 able to cut a few Calla blooms 

 each week during the Winter 

 and early Spring months. The 

 retail grower may not always 

 find it profitable to grow the so- 

 called Easter LiUes, but if he 

 has a house of 55 deg., CaUas 

 can always be made to bring 

 good returns. 

 Wherever a retail grower 

 is located there is call for cut 

 Callas. For funeral sprays they 

 always have been, and no 

 doubt always wiU be used. 

 Even if a man grows a hun- 



Fig. 118.— Callas. For floral designs and 

 sprays the Calla holds first place with many. 

 During the Winter months blooms cut and 

 placed in a cooler will keep in perfect 

 condition for two weeks or more 



