394 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Fig. 177. — Heliohhysum. This, the most popular 



of the Everlastings, is easily growti from seed sown 



outdoors. , The flowers are useful in many ways 



during Winter 



HELICHRYSUM 



If you retail flowers 

 you wiU have to carry 

 the so-called Everlast- 

 ings. No matter whether 

 you personally care for 

 them or not, there are 

 always some among 

 your patrons who will 

 want them and it is an 

 easy matter to sow a 

 long row or two out- 

 doors about the end of 

 AprU. They will start 

 to flower by July and 

 keep it up until Novem- 

 ber Always cut the 

 flowers just before they 

 are fully open, and what 

 you don't seU, hang up 

 in an airy shed, tied in 

 bunches of twelve or 

 twenty-five.. 



You wiU also find 

 it weU to sow a few in- 

 doors and have a good 



supply of seedlings on hand for your Spring trade. 



HELIOTROPE 



See Valeriana 



HELIOTROPIUM 



The Heliotropes, with their sweet vanilla-scented flowers and 

 flower heads ranging from almost white to deep blue, are today 

 mostly used for bedding. There was a time when we trained them 

 into standards, sold large specimens in pots, or had specimens 

 planted out to cut from; but at present it is only in the gardens 

 that we find them popular, except for a few in the greenhouse of 

 the private estate. They make splendid bedders and if you place 

 the cut flowers up to their necks in water and let them remain in 

 a cool dark place for about ten hours they won't wilt the minute 

 they get into a warm room. 



■For stock, either grow on a few plants in pots or lift some in 

 FaU to be potted and carried in a 55-deg. house. Cut back a little 

 by January first and the plants will soon break and give you any 

 number of cuttings which should have a bottom heat of 70 



