. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. after the plants are taken into the greenhouse and when about to mature into blooming specimens. If the first flowers come deformed, or abnormally streaked with colors that are darker in shade, it is a sure indication that the pest is present. No other treatment can be recommended but to destroy the infected pl
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. after the plants are taken into the greenhouse and when about to mature into blooming specimens. If the first flowers come deformed, or abnormally streaked with colors that are darker in shade, it is a sure indication that the pest is present. No other treatment can be recommended but to destroy the infected plants and keep the stock clean, for the pest has not yet been studied carefully. Cult, by E. O. Orpet. Cyclamens should be removed to the greenhouse about the end of September, or any danger of frost, " " lioiis,. they slioiiM iihviiys have the lightest l" It is iiiijiossiiil,. to grow them in a \variii. s),,M]y ]i,,n,,., . 50° at night is the I. ,. win ii iu flower. The soil best suited to them is a fresh, tufty loam, with a fourth or fifth of well rotted horse- manure, to which add some clean sand if the soil is heavy. At all times, the pots should be well drained. Greenfly is sure to attack the plants at all stages of their growth. In the frames the plants can be plunged in tobacco stems, and in the greenhouse they must be fumigated it is better still, vaporized with some of the : extracts. William Scott. A. Fall-blooming species. Afric4num, Boiss. & Rent. The largest of Cyclamens: tubers often as large as a turnip (4-10 in. across): Ivs. .ate-cordate, coarsely toothed, pale beneath, dull and de green marbled above: calyx pubescent, the lobes roadly ovate-acuminate: corolla nearly white, faintly rose- or purple-tinged, the segments 1 in. long and deep purple at the base. Algeria. 575S. 8 Little known in this country, but sold by the American agencies of the Dutch bulb houses. The same remark will apply
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