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dred plants and can cut just a handful of flowers each week they 

 form a profitable crop. Few other flowers will last longer than 

 Callas if kept in a cool place, so hardly ever does one go to waste; 

 all are made use of for something. 



You can plant the tubers in August in solid beds, in benches, 

 or in pots and get good results. For the retail grower with just a 

 few plants, I should recommend pot culture, for the reason that, as 

 a rule, one can put the pot plants in any convenient place, and, when 

 advisable, move them to some other place; this, of course, is not 

 possible when they are planted out. In pots they bloom as freely, 

 if not more freely than when handled any other way, but of course 

 they are a httle more work. 



Plant the tubers in August in as smaU pots as you can conven- 

 iently get them in; place them in a frame or on a bench in a cool 

 house, and in October shift the started plants into 6-in., or, if extra 

 large, 7-in. pots, then carry them along in a 55-deg. house. They 

 want sunlight, but will get along even in a partly shaded spot. Have 

 good drainage in the pots and water every day. In December, and 

 from then on, apply a weak dose of liquid cow manure twice a 

 month. The plants wiU flower up to late Spring, when they should 

 be slowly dried off, and finaUy laid under a bench to rest. Later 

 clean up the tubers and start them into growth again by August. 



Among the best for cut flowers, although not quite as large as 

 some others, is the Godfrey sort. This is mostly grown right through 

 the year, and in many establishments, it has replaced entirely the 

 old variety, Calla j^thiopica. 



The Yellow Galla 



Calla EllioUiana, with its deep golden yeUow flowers, is a most 

 showy variety and well worthy of a place in the retail grower's 

 establishment. You wouldn't want to grow it in as large numbers 

 as the white varieties, which is not to say that the flowers wouldn't 

 seU, but rather that it is especially valuable as a pot plant during 

 the Spring months. The yeUow flowers and the whitish-spotted 

 fohage go weU together, making a good Easter plant. 



For March and April flowering,, you needn't start the plants 

 until the end of October. Grow them on in a rather cool house, 

 aUowing plenty of space between them so as to obtain short, stocky 

 growth. To have a few wiU help add variety to your assortment, if 

 nothing more, and even that is worth something. 



GALLIOPSIS 



This is a showy annual— you might caU it a miniature Goreopsis 



—with yeUow flowers and, usually, dark centers. Sown outdoors, it 



quickly grows into bushes 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, soon covered with 



hundreds of little single flowers on graceful stems, fine for cutting. 



