. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 41 FJMILIAli GAIiDHy ILOWEIiS. sliift should be in SeptemliLT^ as any disturbance of the roots ill the later months of the year will interfere injuriously with the floweriug. For a general rule, nine-inch pots may be regarded as the largest allowable for plants well grown, and in these they may be allowed to flower. As the fluwer- spikes rise, weak liquid manure may lie given to assist them, and the house must Ije warm enough to 2>romote a fine de- velopment, say a temperature of 60^, rising to 1^)" with sunshine. I
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 41 FJMILIAli GAIiDHy ILOWEIiS. sliift should be in SeptemliLT^ as any disturbance of the roots ill the later months of the year will interfere injuriously with the floweriug. For a general rule, nine-inch pots may be regarded as the largest allowable for plants well grown, and in these they may be allowed to flower. As the fluwer- spikes rise, weak liquid manure may lie given to assist them, and the house must Ije warm enough to 2>romote a fine de- velopment, say a temperature of 60^, rising to 1^)" with sunshine. In a cold damp house they will do no good at all. Tlie finest examjiles we have seen of tin's jilant were in the greenhouses in the Royal Cnirdens, Kew. They \Aere truly wonderful, and bad for companiijns ]ilants, not less wonderful, of Sciiecu) G/ie-^hrccliIi, with gigantic heads of orange-yellow flowers. In the same houses were epaeris, cinerarias, heaths, cyclamens, acacias, and other of the usual oc(?upants of a greenhouse, which are here named to show that our Bolivian sage does not need the heat of the stove even when llowering in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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