. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 401. HOUSE OF LILIUM GIGANTEUM AT EL REAH GREENHOUSES. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. H. R. Richards, Grower, and O. C. Saakes. Retailer, in the Aisles. CHRYSANTHEMUMS Specimen Plants for Exhibition. 1 It is time for tliese plants to be ;lven their final tying or training out. •?his work should be attended to at mce, so as to give the plants a chance 0 shape themselves before the buds ppear. The branches being now more iliable than they will lie after the luds are set. consequently they can be
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 401. HOUSE OF LILIUM GIGANTEUM AT EL REAH GREENHOUSES. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. H. R. Richards, Grower, and O. C. Saakes. Retailer, in the Aisles. CHRYSANTHEMUMS Specimen Plants for Exhibition. 1 It is time for tliese plants to be ;lven their final tying or training out. •?his work should be attended to at mce, so as to give the plants a chance 0 shape themselves before the buds ppear. The branches being now more iliable than they will lie after the luds are set. consequently they can be Tiore easily twisted or trained as de- ired. The Question of the style of raining depends on the size and con- lition of the plants. If they have an bundance of shoots and branches a ood specimen is easily obtained with lery little training beyond sufficiently liipporting the plant and its branches. \ The first thing to consider is to lake sure the main stem of the plant 13 given good supjiort; a wire rod stake tie same as is used for staking roses U as good as anything. Let it extend jour or five inches above the plant for [tie present, then if the plant does not uild up to the top when finished, the (take can be shortened some with a air of wire cutters. Wire rings or oops are used to form extra large pecimens, but before resorting to this tyle of training it must be taken into [onsideration the extra cost of trans- jorting and getting them to exliibi- ons, to say nothing of the difficulty ||E handling them, but when the show only a short distance away this Is le most telling- way of training the lants, providing they have enough tioots to make a well formed solid oecimen. The rings must be supported y wires running down into the soil |i the pot to carry their weight, other- •ise the specimens will not be firm and jiany of the shoots will get broken. he tying should be done with strong iread or silkalino, and it shnuM be tarted at the center of the plant, fas- tening the
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