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should be propagated in April or early in 

 May. They should be stopped when one or 

 two inches high and kept stopped as directed 

 for specimen bush plants until about the 

 middle of July. With good care they should 

 make compact plants from twelve to eighteen 

 inches high, carrying from twenty to thirty 

 nice blooms. They will require but little if 

 any staking or tying. The pots may be 

 plunged in soil in a bed or bench, if desired, 

 to save watering; or the plants may be 

 planted in the soil from their first pots, and 

 be grown in the bench until after July 15th, 

 when they may be lifted and potted. This 

 method will produce larger plants than keep- 

 ing them in pots all summer, but will require 

 larger pots, and they may suffer from the 

 disturbance at the time that they must be 

 potted, unless given careful attention. 

 After potting they should be kept shaded 

 from bright sunshine for several days, the 

 atmosphere of the house being kept close 

 and moist. 



Another form of plant that is very useful 

 to the commercial florist is one bearing from 

 six to twelve medium-sized blooms that can 

 be used in groups of foliage plants at wed- 



