Flower grower's guide . yellow marguerites, tuberousbegonias, and fuchsias. These massed in the centre,somewhat highest in the middle, are fringed with ivy-leaf pelargoniums, petunias, lobelias and pendulousbegonias. Mixtures are taking at times; forinstance, the calceolaria named associates well withcrimson, rose or pink Zonale pelargoniums, and helio-tropes with white or yellow marguerites. Fill the vasesmoderately full at the outset, and with the help ofwater and surfacings of artificial manure, the plantswill flower continuously all the season, provided decaying flowers are removed topreve
Flower grower's guide . yellow marguerites, tuberousbegonias, and fuchsias. These massed in the centre,somewhat highest in the middle, are fringed with ivy-leaf pelargoniums, petunias, lobelias and pendulousbegonias. Mixtures are taking at times; forinstance, the calceolaria named associates well withcrimson, rose or pink Zonale pelargoniums, and helio-tropes with white or yellow marguerites. Fill the vasesmoderately full at the outset, and with the help ofwater and surfacings of artificial manure, the plantswill flower continuously all the season, provided decaying flowers are removed toprevent the formation of seed. Yases that are liable to suffer from the action of frosts ought to be emptied of soilin the autumn, but those that will withstand them may be filled with shrubs and coniferssimilar to those recommended for winter bedding. Much that has been advanced concerning filling vases also applies to window selection of plants need not be confined to the kinds named, but may include VOL. I. H H. Fig. 114. Vase and Balustrade INSUFFICIENTLY FURNISHED. 2 3 4- THE FLOWER GROWERS GUIDE. asters, candytuft, eschscholtzias, godetias, mignonette, sweet alyssum, scented stocksand other annuals. If any of these are sown where they are to flower they must beearly and freely thinned out, crowded plants soon failing. It is desirable in manyinstances that a few quick-growing showy climbers be also planted or sown at the endsof window boxes, these being trained up rods or strings on each side for festooning thewindows. For this purpose such plants as the yellow Tropa3olum peregrinum, the scarlet T. Lobbianum, Convolvulus major and sweetpeas are suitable. During the winter these boxes canbe filled with ornamental-leaved, berry-bearing andflowering shrubs, also small conifers, as recommendedfor the beds, and in the spring their places may be takenby a variety of flowering plants, bulbous rooting orotherwise. See Winter Bedding. Balconies likewise admit of beautification
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