. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 824 The American Florist. May 3, PLANT NOTES. Winter Flowering Geraniums. With all growers having- a green- house and doing a retail business there is in the fall a good demand for pot geraniums for house culture. Plants lifted from the open ground and potted in the fall are not very sat- isfactory, for the plants recover from the later transplanting slowly and go out of bloom, and often do not flower weather grows warm enough. The place selected for growing them the coming season should, however, be pre- pared, t
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 824 The American Florist. May 3, PLANT NOTES. Winter Flowering Geraniums. With all growers having- a green- house and doing a retail business there is in the fall a good demand for pot geraniums for house culture. Plants lifted from the open ground and potted in the fall are not very sat- isfactory, for the plants recover from the later transplanting slowly and go out of bloom, and often do not flower weather grows warm enough. The place selected for growing them the coming season should, however, be pre- pared, the ground spaded deeply and if not manured last fall some well- rotted manure spaded in. Many growers do not advise heavy manuring when the clumps are planted and especially no fresh manure, much preferring to get a fair supply in the ground the previous fall so that the rankness will be dissipated in the soil, for too strong manure causes a rank growth and the plants do not bloom as early. With. Stevia. If the stevia cuttings have not been rooted this should be attended to at once. As these plants grow very rap- idly they are generally the last to be propagated but the rooting of any stock in June is always attempted with more or less chance of failure unless under the most favorable conditions. As soon as rooted they should be potted in 3-inch pots and placed in a cold frame, the pots plunged in the soil and shifted into large sizes as required. Keep the plants pinched back until the middle or last of July when they should be potted in their blooming pots and placed in quarters safe from high winds and early frosts. The dwarf stevias may be grown in the field, be- ing kept pinched back during the summer and potted the last of August or first of September. CHRYSANTHEMUMS The Early Propagated Stock, early propagated stock being WINDOW BOXES OF GERANIUMS AND MARGUERITES. again until spring. It is better to grow plants for this purpose in pots through the summer and these with go
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