1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
275 
GREENHOUSE WORK IN APRIL 
Sweet Peas After Violets. —The 
strong sunshine and warmer weather of 
April pushes along the growth of most 
plants in the greenhouse quite rapidly, 
and at the same time necessitates much 
more ventilation and greater freedom in 
watering than is permissible earlier in the 
season. Violets under glass are about 
over, and are quite likely to be making 
so many new leaves that the remaining 
flowers are of little value. 
In order to cover the deficiency in the 
output of the violets, or rather to gain 
a further profit from the same area of 
glass, some growers sow a crop of sweet 
peas in pots in January and February, 
planting from three to six seeds in a three- 
inch pot; then tear out the violets as soon 
as the latter have yielded their best crop, 
and plant the seedling sweet peas in the 
former violet beds, the peas being trained 
up to strings, or wires, fumigated from 
time to time in order to discourage the 
green aphis, or else dusted with tobacco 
dust, giving the plants full sun and plenty 
of fresh air, and thus gaining a crop of 
flowers before the outdoor sweet peas are 
showing buds. These early sweet peas 
do pot bring an extremely high price, ow¬ 
ing to the fact that there are a great 
many grown in the vicinity of our large 
cities, but if a man has a local trade 
through which he may dispose of them, 
the flowers may prove fairly profitable, 
the expense of growing them being but 
little. 
Carnations. —It has already been noted 
in these articles that some of the large 
carnation growers have taken up the plan 
of planting the young plants for the fol¬ 
lowing Winter in the greenhouses during 
the early Summer, instead of the former 
practice of growing them in the field 
until the end of August or beginning of 
September, and for those who only grow 
for the wholesale market, and have plenty 
of greenhouse space, this practice may 
have some advantages. But there are a 
multitude of smaller growers whose trade 
is largely retail, and these find it neces¬ 
sary to keep the old crop of carnations 
going just as long as a reasonable num¬ 
ber of flowers are being produced, and 
such crops as these are likely to need 
some extra stimulation now, the old soil 
becoming more or less exhausted. A 
good fertilizer for this purpose is found 
in pulverized sheep manure given in the 
form of a light top-dressing. The immure 
may be sprinkled over the surface in 
about .sufficient quantity to cover the 
ground, repeating the dose in two or 
three weeks, or may be mixed with an 
equal proportion of fine soil and applied 
to a depth of half an inch or thereabouts, 
it being safer to apply these special dress¬ 
ings in small quantity at more frequent 
intervals rather than to give too much at 
once and possibly sour the soil. 
Notes on Propagating. —Space may 
now be found in the sand bed to put in a 
lot of Chrysanthemum cuttings, the soft 
young shoots that have started up from 
the base of the stock plants and reached 
a length of about three inches being the 
best kind of cuttings, and only needing 
the lower leaves to be cut ofT before they 
are planted firmly in the sand and thor¬ 
oughly watered in. 
These cuttings need to be kept quite 
moist and protected from the sun, and 
will then root in a few days. A good 
cold frame becomes increasingly useful 
during this month, for it provides addi¬ 
tional space for many of the hardier 
young plants, thus giving much-needed 
room in the greenhouse. The young car¬ 
nations in pots or flats, the young violets, 
Verbenas, Feverfew, Pblox, Sweet Alys- 
sum and other of the more hardy species 
will do well with such treatment, but 
Coleus. Alternanthera, heliotrope and 
Acalypha prefer a higher temperature at 
night than the unheated frame will pro¬ 
vide at this season, and will be more un¬ 
der control when kept in the greenhouse. 
Fuchsia. —Nicely grown Fuchsias are 
quite popular in many localities, and de¬ 
servedly so, for they are very graceful 
and pretty, but good specimens of these 
plants need some care in their culture. 
One of the essentials in Fuchsia growing 
is that the young plants shall be kept 
moving, and not allowed to become stunt¬ 
ed or starved, repotting them from the 
small pots into four-inch size, and from 
that to six-inch pots, the latter size be¬ 
ing large enough for all ordinary pur¬ 
poses, and the soil being a good compost 
of rotten sod and stable manure witli a 
sprinkling of fine ground bone to make 
it more lasting. Then give the plants a 
fair allowance of space in which to de¬ 
velop, a fairly moist atmosphere and a 
night temperature of 55 degrees, then tie 
each plant to a neat stake in order to 
train it into an upright and shapely speci¬ 
men, and it will be surprising how they 
grow. 
The Variegated Abutii.ons and Aca- 
lyphas are much used in the edging of 
flower beds, and if not sufficiently stocked 
with these it is not yet too late to root 
some cuttings, for they jfrow rapidly as 
the weather becomes warm. Two of the 
best of the Abutilons for this purpose 
are A. Savitzei and A. Souvenir de Bonn, 
both of which have maple-like leaves 
variegated with white, the first named be¬ 
ing the most dwarf in growth and also 
showing more white in the leaf than 
Souvenir de Bonn. The Acalyphas in¬ 
clude a number of varieties, but two of 
the most effective for bedding are A. 
tricolor and A. musaica, both of which 
show combinations of crimson, pink and 
olive green in their leaves. These plants 
are somewhat tender and should not be 
planted out before it is safe to put out 
Coleus; for example, about May 15 to 20 
in the latitude of New York City. 
Palms and Ferns. —The small florist, 
or rather the beginner in the business, is 
not likely to tamper with palms and 
ferns to any great extent, but the retail 
dealer in a small town is quite likely to 
find some demand for plants of this char¬ 
acter, and as a beginner will naturally 
want to know something about their cul¬ 
ture. To such it may be said that these 
plants in general require a sort of Spring 
cleaning and overhauling at about this 
time. Unfortunately, palms arc quite sub¬ 
ject to the attacks of various insects, nu¬ 
merous varieties of scale insects being 
among the most troublesome, a small 
white scale and a round black one that 
is, I think, a relative of the notorious San 
Jose, are two that do much injury to 
palm growers. These insects congregate 
on the leaf stems and also on both upper 
and lower surfaces of the leaves, and are 
more safely removed by the careful use 
of a sponge and solution of whale-oil 
soap in the strength of one ounce to one 
gallon of water than by any spraying or 
dipping in insecticides. Then there are 
the tiny red spiders, the very prolific 
mealy bug, and also thrips that are fre¬ 
quently found upon palms, so that on 
the whole these plants have troubles, or 
rather their growers do, and the present 
is a good time to make a search for such 
pests, but owing to lack of space I 
must defer further cultural notes until the 
next article. w. H. taplin. 
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