. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 174 The American Florist. Aug. n. protected frames, and started in the greenhouse in March and nice plants for summer blooming be assured. Alternantheras. The propagating bed will not be full at this season and it is one of the best times to procure a stock of that splen- did carpet bedding plant, the Alter- nanthera paionychioides major. This plant simply refuses to grow during the winter and it is almost impossible to procure cuttings until late, with the result that the plants are necessarily small. Any amount
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 174 The American Florist. Aug. n. protected frames, and started in the greenhouse in March and nice plants for summer blooming be assured. Alternantheras. The propagating bed will not be full at this season and it is one of the best times to procure a stock of that splen- did carpet bedding plant, the Alter- nanthera paionychioides major. This plant simply refuses to grow during the winter and it is almost impossible to procure cuttings until late, with the result that the plants are necessarily small. Any amount of cuttings can be procured now and they can be easily rooted either in flats of soil or in the. propagating bed. When thg cuttings are inserted give them a good watering and keep them shady for two or three weeks and they will all root. They can then be placed in flats about one inch apart and placed in a frame out- side or in the greenhouse. They can be wintered in a warm dry house on a shelf near the glass, and potted in April, and will make fine plants. The . other varieties are much more vigor- ous and will thrive in a lower tem- perature. A few old plants can be lifted and propagated in the spring in the usual manner. Grasses tor Shady Places. Lawn grasses do not thrive equally well in sun and shade. In dense sha'de it is usually impossible to maintain a turf. This difiiculty is especially pro- nounced in small city yards and in the grass strips under unthinned Nor- way maple trees on a city street, ac- cording to Li. C. Corbett and others in Farmers' Bulletin No. 494, on "Lawn, Soils and ; There are three factors that may contribute to this trouble: (1) shade; (2) local drought caused by the twofold action of the tree in keeping rain from the ground under it by the denseness of its fol- iage, and by the absorption of and plant food by its roots; (3) a pos- sible poisonous action of the tree on the soil as already mentioned. Proba- bly the second
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