Gladys Pearson, Indianapolis Pink, Thanks¬ 
giving Pink, and Mrs. David F. Roy. 
In Pompons, Singles, and Anemones, 
most all clear colors on the list are safe 
for early flowering. Among the early pom¬ 
pons for September flowering, we depend 
largely on the following: Nuggets, Im¬ 
proved Rodell, Adelaide, Sea Gull, Pink 
Dot, Crystal Jewel, Jessie, and Yellow Dot. 
Sea Gull is an ivory white but hard. Arca¬ 
dia is pure wh.te but not hard enuf for 
September, but perfect to flower in Oc¬ 
tober. Chicago Pearl is fine to flower in 
October; so is Mary Lennon Hall, that we 
find identical with Vera Victoria. Among 
the singles we especially like Absolute, 
California Gold, Buckingham, Gretchen 
Piper, Joe Beuerlein, Dark Pink Valencia, 
and October Pink, an especially free flower¬ 
ing one for shading. Among the Anem¬ 
ones don’t miss Beautiful Lady. Blanche, 
Dark Pink Norma, Frieda, Garza Supreme 
and any of the Espy colors or varieties. 
Among the hardies don’t fail to try the 
variety listed as “Early Bronze,” also 
Early Yellow. This is a real light tan 
pompon, perfectly hardy with us and nice 
for October flowering without shading. In 
carrying it over winter it might be safer 
to cover it with some coarse material. An¬ 
other variety, pictured on previous page is 
Peggy Ann Hoover. While this type is 
difficult to ship, a few of them for their 
very attractive form should interest any 
retail grower. 
POT PLANTS 
The demand for well grown plants in 
pots is clearly increasing and can be helped 
along wth well grown COMPACT plants. 
There is an active demand for such, es¬ 
pecially in our large centers. Tall, straggly 
stuff, on the other hand, is not inviting to 
buyers and usually a loss to growers. But 
unsold pot plants can, of course, be cut 
down. In all potting or repotting, use 
clean fresh soil, for some of the diseases 
Mums are susceptible to are carried along 
in old greenhouse material. Also, soil 
should, when final repotting is done, which 
is usually into 5 in., be increasingly en¬ 
riched. For good 6 in. specimens, cuttings 
should be ready to pot in April and at this 
rapidly growing season, strong cuttings 
can go directly into 3 in. DON’T LET 
THEM GET HARDENED OR CHECKED 
BY BECOMING POT BOUND IN SMALL 
POTS BEFORE SHIFTING. Usually three 
plants are used together in this final pot¬ 
ting and for varieties not so vigorous, four 
plants are frequently used together. The 
first topping is usually done when the 
plants are 4-6 in. tall and again in late 
June or July. Such varieties as are in¬ 
clined to draw up, some topping or trim¬ 
ming back should be done late in July. 
Cuttings potted early in April for 6 in. 
plants will, by May 1, provide an excellent 
cutting that will make fine stock for finally 
putting 3 or 4 in a 5 in. pot. After the 
plants get into vigorous growth in their 
flowering pots, they must occasionally be 
helped along with light top dressings of 
preferably a balanced fertilizer. We oc¬ 
casionally see nice plants grown in an out¬ 
door frame all summer, but most special¬ 
ists prefer to keep them in a low, well 
ventilated, unshaded house where they are 
protected from storms, hot winds, and 
insects. But the outdoor frame plan is a 
profitable one if the frame is sheltered 
from strong winds. It is particularly con¬ 
venient if the plants are to be shaded for 
mid-September flowering. The effect of 
the full outdoors on pot plants is to 
harden, invigorate, and keep them com¬ 
pact. For this reason, greenhouse grown 
plants can well be exposed to the outdoors 
for a month or 6 weeks of mid-Summer. 
An important detail in the growing of pot 
plants is in the hands of the man with the 
hose. Right after potting, they can be 
easily turned yellow by excess water, but 
after they become well rooted and in full 
growth in a 5 in. pot, they absorb much 
water and quickly become dry enuf to 
harden and dry up lower foliage unless 
closely watched. We have seen an over¬ 
head sprinkling system used on outdoor 
grown stock to good advantage. But there 
is danger of overwatering with it unless 
closely watched. The Caprice varieties and 
the smaller flowered kinds, were formerly 
largely used for pot plant purposes. Today, 
while all classes are used, the large flower¬ 
ing ones are principally depended upon; 
your customers will select plants with 
largest flowers. The following are especi¬ 
ally popular with one of the largest suc¬ 
cessful pot plant growers in the following 
order: Friendly Rival, Sun Gold, Ohio 
State, Glitters, Golden Herald, Hilda Ber¬ 
gen, Thanksgiving Pink, Apricot Queen, 
White Chief, and Justrite. And with this 
same grower, the following Pompons and 
Anemones are used in the order named: 
Nuggets, Rodell Imp., Red Rover, Beauti¬ 
ful Lady, Kathleen Thompson, Caprice 
Butler, and Little America. The cooler 
climate of England and Canada permits 
flowering an early class that naturally gets 
in around Sept. 1, averaging about half 
the size of our big Oct. kind and available 
in a full line of colors, we believe they 
should have value for us as pot plants. 
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