. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ?1086 The American Florist. July 7, Cinerarias. There are very few plants easier of culture than cinerarias and again there are just as few things we know of that become so utterly worthless if their sim- ple requirements are not attended to. Good cineraria plants in bloom usually sell at a price that makes their growing profitable but poor scraggy plants such as we often see are simply the result of neglect or at most of spasmodic attention and are not worth a week's house room. The seed of cinerarias may be sown
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. ?1086 The American Florist. July 7, Cinerarias. There are very few plants easier of culture than cinerarias and again there are just as few things we know of that become so utterly worthless if their sim- ple requirements are not attended to. Good cineraria plants in bloom usually sell at a price that makes their growing profitable but poor scraggy plants such as we often see are simply the result of neglect or at most of spasmodic attention and are not worth a week's house room. The seed of cinerarias may be sown any time after the first week in August and it may be advantageous to make a succession sowing during the last week in August or early in September. The seed should be sown in shallow well drained pans in soil composed of loam, leaf mold and sand in about equal pro- portions. The surface should be made perfectly level and even. Then the seed may be sown somewhat thinly, covering it with fine sand and water with a fine hose. After the seed is sown place the seed pans in a frame with the sash sloped to the north. When the seedlings are large enough to handle they should be potted into the smallest pots with soil composed of rot- ted turf chopped up, and leaf mold in equal parts with the addition of a lib- eral sprinkling of clear sand. The sec- ond shift should be given whenever the roots are well through the soil in their first pots, and it ought to be carefully seen to that the plants never get pot bound because if they do poor plants will surely result. The soil for the second and still more so for the fol- lowing shifts should have, in addition to the loam and leaf mold, a reasonable proportion of rotted cow manure and it may help to lessen the quantity of leaf mold when shifting for the last time prior to flowering. In all stages of growth cinerarias should be grown cool and the best place for the plants is a frame or frames with sashes sloping to the north, or if such acco
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