. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. ON BEDDING PLANTS. temperature, where they will make an abundance of cuttings. These should be placed in bottom-heat, and kept close until rooted; they may then be potted on and kept growing freely until bedding-out time. As the plants are rather tender, it is not advisable to put them out until a continuance of warm weather is tolerably assured. Plants intended for pyramids should be struck from cuttings in August, and kept growing on during the winter, training them to a single stem, until the desired height is rea
. The Book of gardening; a handbook of horticulture. Gardening; Floriculture. ON BEDDING PLANTS. temperature, where they will make an abundance of cuttings. These should be placed in bottom-heat, and kept close until rooted; they may then be potted on and kept growing freely until bedding-out time. As the plants are rather tender, it is not advisable to put them out until a continuance of warm weather is tolerably assured. Plants intended for pyramids should be struck from cuttings in August, and kept growing on during the winter, training them to a single stem, until the desired height is reached. If the points are then pinched out, the side branches will soon develop and form a head. If named varieties are not required, seed may be sown in early spring, and the seedlings grown on for planting out into good dry soil in J une; these will flower the same year as sown. Miss Nightingale, although an old variety, is still one of the best for bedding; it is of dwarf, floriferous habit, and bears dark lilac flowers. President Garfield has bright mauve flowers. White Lady has whitish-lilac flowers, the trusses of which are very large. Iresine.—-To this genus belong two or three plants which are indispensable for summer bedding, on account of their richly- coloured foliage. Propagation is efl'ected by means of cuttings placed in a close propagating-frame in August and September; when rooted, they should be taken out of the frame, kept rather dry, and wintered in a greenhouse tempera- ture. About February they should be potted up singly and introduced to more heat and moisture, and at the same time their tops should be pinched out; this will cause them to break back and form an abund- ance of good strong cuttings, which, if placed in a close case, will soon emit roots; these may be potted up, kept in a warm place until well established, and then gradually hardened off. Like Heliotropes, Iresines are rather tender, and ought fig. 86.—Iresine Herbstii not to be planted out
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