. 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. 1003. Violet house with -water heating. plants have been forced to cease their activities because of cold or dry. These habits are so fixed that the plants must be humored when they are grown under glass. Some plants have no such definite seasons, and will grow more or less continuously, but these are the excep
. 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. 1003. Violet house with -water heating. plants have been forced to cease their activities because of cold or dry. These habits are so fixed that the plants must be humored when they are grown under glass. Some plants have no such definite seasons, and will grow more or less continuously, but these are the exceptions. Others may rest at almostany time of the year; but most plants have a definite season, and this season must be learned. In general, experience is the only guide as to whether a plant needs rest; but bulbs and tubers and 1004. Rose house, 150x20 ft., piped for steam. The natural habitat of the plant is significant to the cultivator: it gives a suggestion of the treatment under which the plant IVill be likely to thHve. Unconsciously the plant-grower strives to imitate what he conceives to be the conditions, as to temperature, moisture and sun- light, under which the species grows in the wild. We have our tropical, temperate and cool houses. Yet, it must be remembered that the mere geography of a plant's native place does not always indicate what the precise nature of that place is. The plant in qiiestion may grow in some unusual site or exposure in its native wills. In a general way, we expect that a plant com- ing from the Amazon needs a hothouse; but the details of altitude, exposure, moisture and sunlight must be learned by experience. Again, it is to be said that plants do not always grow where they would, but where they must. Many plants which inhabit swamps thrive well on dry lands. The upshot of all this is, that the habitat and the zone give the hint : with this beginning, work out the proper treatment. Examples are many in which culti- vators have slavishly follow
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