GOCOS, COLEUS 



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Fig. 134. — Gocos Weddelliana is the ideal center plant for a fern dish in a 2J^- 



or 2J^-Lq. size. When grown on into a 6-, 7-, or 8-in. specimen, no other palm can 



compare with it in gracefulness; besides, it makes an excellent house plant 



in 5- to 6-in. pots. One is as soft and graceful as the other, and all 

 are among best house plants. Often a customer will call you up 

 and have you send for her fern dish to refill it; everything in it has 

 died, but the Kttle Gocos in the center is still there in good shape. 

 Let the palm specialist grow the Gocos you need and you do 

 the seUing. It will pay you best. 



COLEUS 



Goleus are part of your bedding stock in Spring. The day is 

 over for mating use of them as decorative pot plants during Winter, 

 which is not to say that they are not beautiful, but, as in the case of 

 the Rex Begonias, something more graceful is wanted as a border 

 for flower beds or for use by itself in beds and borders. Very showy 

 effects may be had with Goleus and many are used for cemetery 

 planting; they may also be used to advantage in filling window 

 boxes and for that purpose you want bushy stock out of 3- or 3)^-in. 

 pots. A good way is to root cuttings during January, use the httle 

 plants for cuttings again and, from April on, let them grow the way 

 they want to without any more pinching. 



