336 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



CUP FLOWER 



See Nierembergia 



CUPHEA IGNEA (FIRECRACKER PLANT) 



As long as a porch box or vase isn't to be filled with just one 

 variety of plant you can always use Cupheas to advantage along 

 the edges. No matter what the color scheme, the Uttle reddish 

 firecracker-hke flowers aren't showy enough to interfere with others 

 in the arrangement. 



Cupheas are always in bloom. Each new leaf means another 

 flower, and the graceful habit of the plants makes them just the 

 thing to hang over the sides of a box, vase or hanging basket. Lift 

 a few plants in the Fall, pot them up and carry them over Winter 

 in a Carnation house; you can begin to propagate in February. 

 They root as freely as German Ivy. Pot them up into 23^-in. pots _ 

 and later into 3s, and if you can set them along the edge of a bench ' 

 where they can hang over, so much the better. 



CURRANT, MOUNTAIN 



See Ribes 



GYCAS REVOLUTA (SAGO PALM) 



It used to be a common thing for the smaller florist, during 

 early Summer, to start a few dozen Cycas stems in pots just about 

 large enough to hold them, and therefrom produce a crop of fine 

 leaves after awhile. We used to sell these plants, the same as 

 palms or Rubber Plants, but we got away from it. If you go far 



Fig. 138. — Ten Good Cyclamen — Prize winners grown by the author. You can 

 grow fine Cyclamen plants inside of twelve months, but if you want them in full 

 bloom by early December, allow from sijcteen to eighteen months from sowing. 

 One plant with perfect fohage and six to twelve flowers in December is worth four 



in January or February 



