. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igj4. 1'he American Florist. 53. A. E. WOHLERT'S ESTABLISHMENT, NARBERTH, PA. ill liii- Niirsor\. Looking Enti'iiiK'i-'. kept to that height. The entire estab- lishment shows careful attention to de- tail and artistic taste. Care is shown in the line of the and road, con- veniently arranged for their purpose and planned .so there will be no excess of absolute requirements. PLANT NOTES. Violets. It will soon be September and time to house the plants of the double varieties of violets that are grown
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igj4. 1'he American Florist. 53. A. E. WOHLERT'S ESTABLISHMENT, NARBERTH, PA. ill liii- Niirsor\. Looking Enti'iiiK'i-'. kept to that height. The entire estab- lishment shows careful attention to de- tail and artistic taste. Care is shown in the line of the and road, con- veniently arranged for their purpose and planned .so there will be no excess of absolute requirements. PLANT NOTES. Violets. It will soon be September and time to house the plants of the double varieties of violets that are grown in the field, the more successful growers being of the opinion that the plants should be under glass before the sea- son of heavy dews. In preparing the beds have plenty of old leaves; it is not necessary that they be rotted; in fact, leaves gathered last fall are to be preferred, for they will generate a lit- tle heat in the soil and the violet plants, seem to grow and push their roots into ha'f-rotted leaves better than in leaf-mold that is finely decom- posed. A layer of three inches of leaves in the bottom of the lied will prove of great advantage in violet cul- ture. Whatever manure is used should be thoroughly rotted. The violet will not root into fresh manure at all. An old gardener, who was very successful in violet culture, once told us how he prepared his frames. They were made in a similar manner to hotbeds, only instead of manure a foot of leaves was placed at the bottom and eight or ten inches of soil placed on them. The leaves will furnish a mild heat nearly all winter and greatly assist in keep- ing the frames warm. We tried that method the following fall and think- ing that the leaves would not furnish nutriment enough we incorporated a good quantity of half-rotted manure in the soil, the manure still being more or less lumpy. The violets grew finely and produced an excellent crop of large flowers. In the spring when we lifted the plants we found the roots had
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