390 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



sowings you can have flowers to cut indoors almost up to the time the 

 ones first sown in a hotbed (about April first) are in flower outdoors, 

 which would be about the end of May. If you keep on sowing seed 

 every two weeks outdoors during Summer you can cut flowers up to 

 November. There is no one more in need of small white flowers all 

 through the year than the retail grower, and, of course, for design 

 work such material is of special value. This annual Gypsophila will 

 furnish you with such flowers, and under glass as well as outdoors 

 needs less attention than almost any plant I know. of. There is now 

 a fight pink variety of this Gypsophila which gives flowers of a 

 better color when grown under glass than when grown outdoors. 

 For frame or outdoor culture sow in rows about ten inches apart 

 and not too thickly, and cover the seeds very fightly. 



Gypsophila panigulata 



Like the annual sort, the perennial Gypsophila paniculata, or 

 Baby's Breath, is of most value as a cut flower during the Summer 

 months, though even in Winter in a dry state it is useful. 



If seed is sown in January and the small plants are kept mov- 

 ing, they will flower a little the first year; but they won't be at their 

 best until the second Summer. We now have also a double form, 

 very attractive and more showy than the old one. The plants 

 will not stand for a. heavy soil or poor drainage, and while, with 

 many, they grow as easily as weeds, there are other people who find 

 it hard to get them established. 



HARDY SWEET PEAS 



See Lathyrus 



HAWTHORN 



See Cratxgus 



HEATHER 



See Erica 



HEDERA HELIX (ENGLISH IVY) 



We won't discuss the hardiness of the English Ivy or how well 

 it does in Europe or along the Western Coast. The florist is mostly 

 interested in good 4- or 5 -in plants, bushy and from three to five 

 feet in height or length. If one could produce such plants and do 

 it reasonably, there would be practicaUy no limit to the number he 

 could seU; but at present there is, and for some time there has been 

 far greater demand than supply. No matter how hardy the English 

 Ivy may be or what abuse it can stand, the hot, dry atmosphere of 

 the average residence is too much for it. Yet this doesn't seem to 

 bother the pubfic in the least and more Ivies than ever are sold. 

 No florist can make a mistake in stocking up weU with Ivies of aU sizes 



