Flower grower's guide . florists do not attach great importance tothis flower, doubtless owing to the ease with which theplants can be grown and new varieties raised; there-fore the points of a good flower are seldom, if ever,mentioned. According to Glennys views, and thesestill hold good, the plant should be dwarf, the flowersabundant, the mouth wide, and the more the inner surface turns up to hide the tubethe better. The tube should be clear and pure if white, and if any other colour mustbe bright; and the mouth and all the inner surface should be of a different colour,formi
Flower grower's guide . florists do not attach great importance tothis flower, doubtless owing to the ease with which theplants can be grown and new varieties raised; there-fore the points of a good flower are seldom, if ever,mentioned. According to Glennys views, and thesestill hold good, the plant should be dwarf, the flowersabundant, the mouth wide, and the more the inner surface turns up to hide the tubethe better. The tube should be clear and pure if white, and if any other colour mustbe bright; and the mouth and all the inner surface should be of a different colour,forming a contrast with the tube. The petal should lap over the indentations, so asnot to show them; the texture of the tube should be like wax or enamel; the insidesurface which laps over should be velvety. When the flower is striped or spotted,the marking should be well defined in all its variations, and the colour, whatever itmay be, dense. The flowers should form spikes of six or seven blooms, close but not invol. i. a Q. Fig. 142. Antieehtnttm . 298 THE FLOWER GROWERS GUIDE. each others way; and the footstalks ought to be strong and elastic to keep them fromhanging down at the stem, which they will if the footstalks are weak. Varieties are numerous, but are principally grown without names. As describedand shown on pp. 20G and 215, antirrhinums may be raised from seeds sown early inthe autumn, in pans or boxes, in preference to sowing in the spring, though thousandsof seedlings are raised under glass in February and March; and established varietiesare also better increased by cuttings inserted in sandy soil in a cold frame in Septemberor October than in heat in spring, for though these emit roots quickly, the plants areless sturdy than those raised under cooler conditions. Naturally, only the cutting-raised plants can be depended upon to come true to name,seed saved from a collection of plants giving a great variety of colours; but if rogues,or inferior forms, are weeded out dir
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