60 How TO Grow Cut Flowers. 



the glass to produce buds of fine form and size. Added 

 to these reasons is the fact that buds from newly 

 planted stock are not, until the approach of cool 

 weather, as firm nor as large as the market requires. 



This want can be supplied by planting in solid beds 

 and allowing them to come in and go out with the sea- 

 son. They should be housed to protect them from 

 winds and storms, as well as the various insects which 

 mar both flower and foliage on plants in the open 

 ground. These houses should be so arranged as to keep 

 out severe frosts, heat being supplied in sufficient quan- 

 tity to keep them at from thirty to thirty-five during 

 the winter months. With the turn of the season — usu- 

 ally in February — they can be pruned back, tied down 

 if need be, mulched and brought gradually on, so that 

 by the time the winter plants commence to fail, you 

 will have a succession of sturdy bloom. 



As fall approaches, leave the houses open to the 

 weather until frpst, letting nature ripen them in her 

 own way and prepare them for their winter's rest. 



The varieties to be selected for this work are such as 

 observation teaches us need a warm summer tempera- 

 ture to bring them to perfection. There are many va- 

 rieties, grand for summer flowering, that are iitterly 

 worthless in winter, and the reverse is equally true. It 

 is useless to expect fine blooms in summer from plants 

 which require a low temperature to bring them to 

 perfection in winter. For instance, Mermet, Bride, 



