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a spot where you can take care of them, you can every other year, 

 divide the old stock and so steadily increase your supply. 



Plants for Forcing 



Two-year-old clumps of Bleeding Heart lifted in Fall can be 

 gently forced and had in flower around Easter time without much 

 trouble. When well done the retail grower will find good use for 

 them. Heel them in in a frame and keep them there up to the end 

 of January; Then bring them in, pot them up, and let them have a 

 45-deg. house. With Easter coming around the first of April, they 

 should be brought into a 55-deg. house by the latter part of February. 

 They need a lot of water while in the pots. You can plant the left- 

 overs outdoors again. 



DICTAMNUS FRAXINELLA (GAS PLANT) 



The Gas Plant — meaning the red form as well as the white — 

 provides showy, hardy, flowering plants that can be used either 

 in groups or borders. When planted in masses they are as showy 

 as any flowering plant you have. When planted in a double row 

 they make an ideal border for a walk, growing very uniform in 

 height. But you will want to plant something else alongside of 

 them as they do not flower all Summer. Sow seed in VI ay or early 

 June in order to have good-sized plants to flower the foUowing year. 



DIDISCUS C.ERULEA (BLUE LACE FLOWER) 



If you wish to add to your assortment of flowers during the 

 Spring months and please those patrons who are always wanting 

 something different, you can do it by growing on a few plants of 

 the so-caUed Blue Lace Flower (Didiscus cserulea). While not a 

 showy flower nor of large size, it is nevertheless very attractive 

 and when used in connection with Sweet Peas, Freesias or VaUey 

 with Adiantum, it makes a beautiful centerpiece or corsage. If 

 you want it to flower during April and May, sow seeds about the 

 end of December or January in a house of 50 deg., transplant the 

 seedlings later on into small pots, and in four or five weeks plant 

 out on a bench, allowing about four inches between the plants in 

 the rows and one foot between the rows. They will thrive in almost 

 any soil and in a Carnation house temperature. 



DIERVILLA (WEIGELA) 



The Weigelas are among the dozen or so best flowering shrubs 

 for the home grounds and you have to consider them. They are 

 not only loaded with flowers during early Summer, but their foUage 

 is always fresh and clean and some of the sorts (among them D. 



