Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . Fio;. 35.—DOUBLE PRIMROSES. {]jreen-house in which we grow these has about ],000square feet of surface. Each plant occupies about a. Fie^. 36.—CARNATIONS. square foot of space and produces not less than 500flowers on each plant. In fact the whole green-house is 108 FLORICULTURE. one continued sheet of snowy whiteness from Novemberto May. It is perhaps the most profitable of all winterflowering plants grown by the florist. Figure 36 is a section of Carnations
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . Fio;. 35.—DOUBLE PRIMROSES. {]jreen-house in which we grow these has about ],000square feet of surface. Each plant occupies about a. Fie^. 36.—CARNATIONS. square foot of space and produces not less than 500flowers on each plant. In fact the whole green-house is 108 FLORICULTURE. one continued sheet of snowy whiteness from Novemberto May. It is perhaps the most profitable of all winterflowering plants grown by the florist. Figure 36 is a section of Carnations (or Pinks, as theyare sometimes called) growing, planted out on one of the|. green-house benches. Of late years this has become oneof our most popular winter flowers, and perhaps morespace is devoted to it than to any other flower. Its cul-tivation is easy and simple, and for that reason it is lessprofitable here perhaps than anything else grown. Thecuttings are treated exactly as the Verbenas, alreadydescribed. As the plant is qnite hardy, it is plant-ed out from the green-houses early in spring, (at the sea-son we plant cabbages), in the open ground, at about onefoot each way. The flowers are not allowed to developduring the summer, but the buds
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