. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OPEN LETTCEi^^- KEADEG6. GBOWING CANNAS FROM SEED. In the March 18 issue of The Ee-* view appeared an inquiry as to how and when to start canna seed, under the head "Propagation of ; I thought the reply was rather discour- aging if one wanted good flowering plants the coming summer, and I felt sure I could advise better. Let me tell what I have done. March 22 I received a half-pound of seed from a seed concern. I have ac- cess to an emery wheel, and I ground down to the white meat on every seed. That same evening I poured hot water
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. OPEN LETTCEi^^- KEADEG6. GBOWING CANNAS FROM SEED. In the March 18 issue of The Ee-* view appeared an inquiry as to how and when to start canna seed, under the head "Propagation of ; I thought the reply was rather discour- aging if one wanted good flowering plants the coming summer, and I felt sure I could advise better. Let me tell what I have done. March 22 I received a half-pound of seed from a seed concern. I have ac- cess to an emery wheel, and I ground down to the white meat on every seed. That same evening I poured hot water on them, and kept them in hot water until the evening of March 27, giving the seeds a five days' bath, I found four seeds showing a white germ the size of a pin-head. I put the lot in a big dish of sand, covering them about an inch. The dish stood in a hot place over a stove, where the seeds luxuri- ated in bottom heat and had hot sun- shine. Fifteen days after I put the seeds to soak, there were more than 200 plants, averaging two inches in height. Some are three inches and some three and one-half inches tall. If these plants keep growing as they have begun, they will match any plants started from roots by the time warm weather comes. Heat and moisture do the business, and March is a good month for starting the seeds, for fire heat is needed. In my opinion, any time in March is early enough for cannas. Sow them when you put in your earliest toma- toes, but run them hotter. F. P. Avery. DAHLIAS FBOM CUTTINGS. We have noticed considerable in- quiry this spring in the trade papers as to the best method of propagating dahlias from cuttings. We used to have considerable trouble with these cuttings, but at present we have none. The present season we have rooted more than ninety-nine per cent of them. We bed the tubers, preferring the undivided field-grown clumps, in a sunny place in a bench of the green- house, bedding them, in soil enough to cover them an inch or more and mak- ing
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