. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 602 FORCING. 855. Forsythia suspen Sicboldi (X! rectly iu a Forcing-box or pots, generally made over the pipes in tiie hottest house, where a temperature of 8U° to 95° F. can be maintained. They are first soalted in w
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 602 FORCING. 855. Forsythia suspen Sicboldi (X! rectly iu a Forcing-box or pots, generally made over the pipes in tiie hottest house, where a temperature of 8U° to 95° F. can be maintained. They are first soalted in water tor a day or two and then kept in this heavy lieat until tiower buds are well developed (Pig. 853). Tulips, hya- cinths and othei bullis, sometime s or lilac, can also be hur- ried up in such a box, but it is dangerous, and not good practice; better and more lasting flowers come with or- dinary trea'tnieut. Trilliums (Fig. ) and various early- flowering wild plants may be forced with satisfaction. Although no rules can be given for the time required in Forc- ing, it is knowledge not hard to acquire with even surprising exactness. Nothing is likely to require more than three months in houses ranging from 45° to ° e., after bringing in from the pits. A month or six weeks is good time to allow iu February and March, but with the same plants and temperatures, more time would be needed earlier; with the advance of the season, the work is quicker and less uncertain. There is great difference in plants. Rhododendrons (the hybrids) require eight weeks or more, but one species will often bloom in March, within twenty-four hours. Plants like the rose, which must make a growth before the buds form, take more time than azaleas. The differ- ence between dull and bright weather is an important factor, but with extra firini?, or the use of the Forcing- box, these matters even up, and the average time of flowering is wonderfully even. In this work, a man with good plant s
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