CINERARIA, GLARKIA, CLEMATIS 327 



results in their setting buds and flowers. If you can keep them 

 going they can be grown up to 5- and 6-in. specimens, even for late 

 flowering. Your largest plants, however, will be those sown in 

 Midsummer and kept shifted during late Fall. With proper man- 

 agement, specimens in 8-in. pots, thirty inches across and over 

 can be had, but I don't know whether such pay any better than good 

 stock in 6s. 



You can also grow the plants in frames outdoors during the 

 Summer and Fall months as long as there is some one to take care 

 of them. 



There are some excellent strains of Cinerarias to be had and 

 seed of hght and salmon pinks can be bought separately by those 

 who are not in favor of the deeper shades of red and purple. C. 

 stellata is a fine variety, growing into enormous plants producing 

 30-in. stems, loaded with hundreds of smaU star-shaped flowers, 

 some of Ihem of exquisite coloring and fine for cutting. Even if 

 you never sell a plant, it will pay you to always have a nice lot of 

 Cinerarias on hand during the Winter and the first three months of 

 the year. They wiU help you in keeping up the show, which is more 

 cheaply done with Cinerarias than tdmost any other stock, especially 

 if you don't have to buy them. 



CLARKIA 



The improved sorts of Clarkia, such as Salmon Queen and 

 Queen Mary, are weU worth growing among your annuals for cut 

 flowers. They grow fuUy three feet taU, bloom all Summer and 

 their double flowers are borne on long stems. Treat them the same 

 as other annuals. 



You can also use them for flowering under glass, sowing, the 

 seed about December, growing the little seedlings on in pots and 

 planting in a cool house in February. They don't stand a hot 

 house, but if given plenty of time, like the Lupines, they make good 

 cut flowers which, if cut when only partly open, will last for days. 



CLEMATIS 



Every florist should plant out at least two dozen Clematis paniculata 

 somewhere on his own grounds, just to cut from when in flower 



Clematis paniculata doesn't stay in flower much more than 

 about three weeks, but during that time you will have good use for 

 the beautiful little, sweet-scented, white flowers on graceful branches 

 covered with their small foliage. 



You cannot get a better effect for a floral wreath, about the 

 end of August and early in September, than a combination of 

 Lilium speciosum rubrum and this Clematis; and there is nothing finer 

 for a spray than a few sprigs of Clematis with some larger flower. 



