5 
1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
GREEN HOUSE WORK IN JANUARY. 
Roses in Midwinter. —Those who force 
roses for Winter cut flowers usually find 
that the plants are somewhat inclined to 
rest about this time in the Winter, for 
the days are short and the sunshine rather 
weak, and at such times it is especially 
necessary that the watering be done care¬ 
fully. '1 he roses will not take up quite 
so much water, but still it will not do to 
allow them to get very dry. and the 
foliage will require vigorous syringing in 
order to prevent the attacks of red spider. 
The amount of water that the roses 
should be given at such times depends 
so much upon the consistency of the soil 
that it is practically impossible to lay 
down a positive rule, for those planted in 
a light and open soil may be able to utilize 
a good watering every three or four days, 
while similar plants in a heavy clay soil 
may not need such a watering oftener 
than once in a week or 10 days, from 
which it will be seen that much depends 
upon the judgment of the grower. The 
common plant louse, or green aphis, is an 
insect that is liable to appear in the rose 
house at almost any time, the conditions 
of such a house being decidedly favorable 
for this insect, and the best method of 
fighting this pest is with nicotine in some 
form. The old-fashioned method of fumi¬ 
gating with tobacco stems was a cheap 
one, but also a defective one, from the 
fact that the tobacco smoke ruined the 
color of many of the flowers that were 
about to open, and also crippled some of 
the buds. Instead of this, the modern 
grower uses one of the concentrated solu¬ 
tions of nicotine, vaporizing the liquid 
over alcohol lamps, or else some of the 
prepared nicotine papers, either of which 
may be used strong enough to kill the in¬ 
sects without any injury to the flowers. 
Propagating. —The propagation of roses 
should also be going on at this time, for 
there is seldom too much good wood 
available for this purpose since it has be¬ 
come the custom to cut the flowers with 
such long stems. Some suggestions re¬ 
garding the propagating bed have been 
offered in these columns before, but it may 
be allowable to repeat that the bed should 
be filled with clean sand to a depth of 
about three inches, that the sand should 
be packed down firmly, and that the cut¬ 
tings should be well watered in. 1 he cut¬ 
tings in question should be made from 
firm young wood, and cut in lengths of 
two or three joints, according to the 
abundance of material, the lower leaf be¬ 
ing cut off, and the bottom end of the 
cuttings being preferably just below a 
joint, though this last provision is not ab¬ 
solutely necessary. After the cuttings 
have been planted, they will need a light 
sprinkling with water on every bright day. 
and also protection from the sun by shad¬ 
ing with papers, and unless they are neg¬ 
lected or kept in too close an atmosphere, 
a large percentage of them should be 
rooted in about three weeks. 
Carnation Cuttings will also be de¬ 
manding attention; these do not require 
quite as much heat to induce them to root 
as the roses, and where all the propagat¬ 
ing- is done in one house it is best to 
choose the cooler end for the carnations, a 
steady temperature of 55 degrees at night 
being quite high enough for the latter. 
The so-called Baby Rambler rose that 
was recently figured and described in The 
R. N.-Y. is likely to be much in demand 
during the coming season, and this is also 
a good time to get up a stock of it. for 
this rose roots with great freedom and 
soon makes bushy little plants that will 
flower in the Spring and Summer. 
Begonias in some of the many species 
and varieties seem to be almost every¬ 
body’s plant, and the beautiful and won¬ 
derfully free-flowering Begonia Gloire de 
Lorraine has become especially popular as 
a Christmas plant in the large cities of 
our country. This Begonia may be read¬ 
ily propagated by means of leaf cuttings 
at this season, the leaves being cut off 
with about half an inch of stem and plant¬ 
ed in a sand bed in the warm end of the 
house, for these cuttings enjoy a temper¬ 
ature of 65 degrees. The leaves of this 
Begonia soon root, but it takes several 
weeks before they form shoots from the 
base, and until some sign of growth ap¬ 
pears they are best in the sand. It is not 
quite so easy to grow good stock of this 
Begonia as it is of some of the stronger- 
growing sorts, for Gloire de Lorraine is 
quite impatient of careless watering, its 
root system being rather delicate, but it is 
so pleasing in color and such a persistent 
Winter bloomer that it is worth some ex¬ 
tra effort on the part of the grower. There 
is also a white-flowered form of this Be¬ 
gonia. and one of the novel arrangements 
noted among the Christmas displays was 
a well-flowered specimen of this white 
Begonia in the center of a pan, surrounded 
by several small plants of the typical pink 
variety, the effect of this combination be¬ 
ing quite pleasing. Almost everyone at 
all familiar with plants knows that the 
Rex Begonias, those large-leaved and 
handsomely marked foliage varieties, may 
be increased by leaf cuttings, it being pos¬ 
sible to secure several plants from one 
leaf by cutting the fleshy veins in various 
places, and then laying them on damp 
sand, and such cuttings made thus early 
in the season will produce nice young 
plants for Spring sales. 
The Easter Stock of flowering plants 
must be timed to come in a little earlier 
than last season, for Easter in 1906 comes 
on April 15, but this is not an early date 
for that festival, and there should be no 
special difficulty in bringing in Easter 
liles for that date, unless there should be 
a very cold and cloudy Spring. At this 
time the lilies only need to be a few 
inches above the soil, and will need mod¬ 
erate watering, full sunshine and a night 
temperature of 60 degrees to keep them 
growing satisfactorily. If one has any 
of the finer foliage plants, such as Cro¬ 
tons, Draoenas and Pandanus Veitchii, 
the present is a good time to put in some 
cuttings, for during the season that steady 
fire heat is maintained in the. greenhouse 
there is less difficulty in rooting some of 
these less rugged species. Where there 
are only a few cuttings of each sort it will 
be found a good plan to plant them around 
the edge of a four or five-inch pot that 
has been filled with sand, or light soil 
with a covering of sand, and then to 
plunge the pot in the propagating bed. 
such cuttings frequently rooting more 
rapidly when planted around the edge of 
a pot than if they are put in the ordinary 
propagating bed. w. h. taplin. 
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