. The parlor gardener: a treatise on the house culture of ornamental plants. Translated from the French, and adapted to American use. THE PARLOR GARDENER. whole summer, myrtles, oranges, rose laurels,pomegranates, camellias, kalmias, and azaleas,^vhich belong in winter to the garden in thehouse. Two sorts of plants, alike agreeable, —•the pelargoniums and the Indian chrysanthemums,— can be easily propagated there, by slips stuckin the way I have already shown you. Nor isthere any need of a portable greenhouse thistime : you may stick them simply in pots filledwith good earth, taking care to pl
. The parlor gardener: a treatise on the house culture of ornamental plants. Translated from the French, and adapted to American use. THE PARLOR GARDENER. whole summer, myrtles, oranges, rose laurels,pomegranates, camellias, kalmias, and azaleas,^vhich belong in winter to the garden in thehouse. Two sorts of plants, alike agreeable, —•the pelargoniums and the Indian chrysanthemums,— can be easily propagated there, by slips stuckin the way I have already shown you. Nor isthere any need of a portable greenhouse thistime : you may stick them simply in pots filledwith good earth, taking care to place over yourslips, for the first eight or ten days, a tumblerturned upside down, pressing down the edgeslightly into the earth. After the slips havetaken, remove the tumblers, and water the youngplants once or twice a Aveek with a good glass ofdish-water that you have had put aside for thispurpose by the cook ; you will see with whatvigor they put out. I shall take this occasionto give you some advice that Mill be useful toyou, on the manner of training the pelargoniumsand chrysanthemums that you have propagatedby Figj. 9. — Chandelier Flower-vase. THE PARLOR GARDENER. 105 Method of training the Pelargonium Slips. A slip of pelargonium, left to itself, shoots athazard right and left, puts forth a quantity offoliage and flowers badly : this is what the Frenchgardeners, adopting a term applied generally tocolts, call badly broken. When you see it wellrooted, and beginning to shoot vigorously, pinchoff the top. The two or three shoots next belowthis will develop in side branches of nearlyequal strength ; destroy all that put out belowthese, retaining them alone to form a regularhead. If one of these branches runs up, andis impatient to pass the others, do not hesitate topinch it off. Below this point two shoots mustbe left at first — one of them to be taken off atthe end of eight or ten days. Thus will equalityin the vegetation of the pelargonium be main-tained.
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