Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . essity for water is shown by the whitening of the surface of the soil,particularly if indull weather, or ifthe green-house iskept at a low tem-perature. As arule, with green-house plants keptin a night temperature of 45°, with a day temperature of60°, watering twice a week from December to March willgenerally be suflicient; on the approach of clear weather,with higher temperature in April and May, they will re-quire dally attention. Our practice is to water during winte
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . essity for water is shown by the whitening of the surface of the soil,particularly if indull weather, or ifthe green-house iskept at a low tem-perature. As arule, with green-house plants keptin a night temperature of 45°, with a day temperature of60°, watering twice a week from December to March willgenerally be suflicient; on the approach of clear weather,with higher temperature in April and May, they will re-quire dally attention. Our practice is to water during winter with the commonrose watering-pots, of the pattern shown in fig. 10, givingthe plants water sparingly, or otherwise, as as spring opens, we go at the operation more expe-ditiously, using a Wests Force Pump (fig. 11), and 2-inchrubber hose. To the end of the hose is attached a heavysprinkler, similar to that shown in the common watering-pot(fig. 10). In all districts where there is no hydrant-water,this means of w^atering will be found to be most thorouo-hand effective. In my work, Gardening for Profit, I. Fi*^. 10.—WATERING-POT. TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE. 39 expressed the opinion that no labor-saving appliance wehad ever used was so satisfactory as this; two years havepassed since then, and, wnth increased work to do, we arestill more than satisfied. One man pmiips, another regu-lates the water and sprinkles it over the plants; eachgreen-house, of 100 feet long by 11 feet wide, is wateredthoroughly in 15 minutes; the changing of the hose fromone house to another re-lieves the workman fromthe labor of pumping fora few minutes, so thatwlien the change is madeof the hose to anotherhouse, he is ready tostart afresh again. Bythis mode of w^atering,we not only give theplants a thorough drench-ing, but we save at leastthree-fourths of the laborthat is usually spent insvatering with the water-ing-pot. Some may ob-ject to this rough-look-ing way of wateringplants; to su
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