Section VI 
Florists’ and Nurserymen’s 
Calendar 
The Year’s Work in Commercial Greenhouses 
January 
First Week . — English Daisies, Forgetmenots and Pansies for Spring 
may still be sown. Hydrangeas for Easter may be started in a house 
at 50 deg. Gardenias should be in a house with a temperature of 60 deg. 
at night. The Lorraine and Cincinnati type of Begonia can be pro])a- 
gated by cuttings now, also bedding Begonias of the luminosa type and 
Lobelias and Petunias. 
Second Week . — ^Cuttings may be taken of Fuchsias, Callas, Helio- 
trope, Stevias, each from the young wood. Canterbury Bells do well in 
a temperature of 45 deg. Plants for Easter and later may be brought 
in from the frames. Primula obconica and malacoides should not be 
allowed to go to seed, a house from 50 to 55 deg. at night is suitable. 
Start Rambler Roses for Easter flowering, l^ok over your stock 
of Cannas. 
Third Week . — Sow seeds of Vinca rosea, Pentstemons for bedding. 
Verbenas, Aquilegias, Snapdragons, Shasta Daisies. Prepare hotbeds 
for bedding stock and for raising young vegetables. I.,ook over your 
stock of flats for growing on seedlings. Bring in Wallflowers that were 
potted last Fall from frames to a Carnation house temperature. Hardy 
Phlox may be propagated from cuttings, the clumps being brought in 
and planted in a sunny bench in a Carnation house j from these cut- 
tings may be got in four weeks. 
Fourth W eek . — Top dress Callas in pots, or supply with liquid 
manure. , Start Spiraeas now for Easter in 50 deg. Asparagus Sprengeri 
is a great feeder, top dress with well rotted cow manure and soil. 
Make due preparation for getting Geranium cuttings from now until the 
end of March. Giganteum Lilies will now be 6in. in height. Keep the 
plants free from green fly, and give them a temperature of 60 deg. 
Plant out on the bench a supply of Boston Ferns from 2in. pots; these 
will be nice bushy plants by the middle of May. 
February 
First Week . — Are you working on a system in bringing in flats of 
Dutch bulbs? If not, think it over and make better plans for another 
year. Some growers find the ground so frozen when they wish to get 
their flats that tliis is an im])ossibility. Sow seed now of Candytuft, 
Stocks and Calendulas for Memorial Day. Two and one-half incli stock 
of Easter Greeting and other similar Pelargoniums, shifted into 3V!>in., 
can be grown into bushy specimens by Spring, flooded with buds and 
