. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. THE GREENHOUSE AND ITS FLOWERS. 247. such (Inns as Sutton, Carter, Laing, Veitch, or Kelway, one 111 a v easily choos e those kinds likely to please most loversof flowers. The big flowers are less free than the smaller a n (1 n e a 1 e r blooms, which make a braver display. The following rules will serve for the cultivation of the Petunias from seed. When growing for pots, sow the seed late in January, in a shallow pan or pot, sowing very thinly on quite an even soil surface. Cover lightly with silv
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. THE GREENHOUSE AND ITS FLOWERS. 247. such (Inns as Sutton, Carter, Laing, Veitch, or Kelway, one 111 a v easily choos e those kinds likely to please most loversof flowers. The big flowers are less free than the smaller a n (1 n e a 1 e r blooms, which make a braver display. The following rules will serve for the cultivation of the Petunias from seed. When growing for pots, sow the seed late in January, in a shallow pan or pot, sowing very thinly on quite an even soil surface. Cover lightly with silver sand, and use for the general compost a soil made up ol loam one part, double the quantity of well-decayed leaf mould, and sufficient sharp silver sand to lighten it thoroughly. Place the pan or pot in a temperature of 6odeg., sprinkle the surface lightly with water, or the seeds will be washed out, and when large and strong enough prick oul into other pans, transferring from these some time in April in 60 pots, potting on in the usual way, as the pots become lull of roots, until the 48 si/e is reached. Il is necessary to give slight shade after repottings, 1ml do not coddle the plants in any way, and. when well established, the greenhouse will suit them, giving plenty of air at all times. Pleroma. —This is a beautiful class of small-growing shrubs, principally natives ol the Andean region ol South America. The flowers ol most are large, and of a purple or violet colour, but the plants are difficull to grow, need a shady position, and a soil composed of sandy peat. Pllimbag'O.—The light porcelain blue flowers of 1'. capensis are always greatly admired, whether the plant lie trained to the roof or pillars of a greenhouse, grown as a bush therein, or planted out of doors during the summer, for all of which purposes it is well adapted. The Plumbago more fully described in the chapter upon Climbers. Primula, Chinese. — No greenhouse is complete without the beaut
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