. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 157. V\Rtp\.^ct M ^v.\tR\c^u \usinuit ^k\r. Ht\N Nor\(,. these vincas. I use a lot of this vinca for this purpose. It doesn't wilt, it isn't scraggy, it is in bloom when set out and it continues uninterruptedly in blossom all summer. The Banana.—"Well, now I am glad that I have brought you something that you have not got," said Benj. C. Townsend, of Bay Ridge, to me one day last June as he gave into my hands a small plant of Musa ensete in a little pot. In the side
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 157. V\Rtp\.^ct M ^v.\tR\c^u \usinuit ^k\r. Ht\N Nor\(,. these vincas. I use a lot of this vinca for this purpose. It doesn't wilt, it isn't scraggy, it is in bloom when set out and it continues uninterruptedly in blossom all summer. The Banana.—"Well, now I am glad that I have brought you something that you have not got," said Benj. C. Townsend, of Bay Ridge, to me one day last June as he gave into my hands a small plant of Musa ensete in a little pot. In the side of a large bed on an open sunny slope and dry sandy land I had a big hole made and filled with a couple of barrow loads of manure and there planted tlie banana. It grew immensely and by the end of September some of its leaves were seven feet long. Then I shortened back all of its leaves except the center ones which were not ([uite unfolded, dug up the plant and shortened back its roots enough to allow me to set the butt into a uinch pot which it fits snugly. In this way I will winter it in the greenhouse, then plant it out again next summer. No wonder the people extol the grandeur of this tropical giant in the flower garden. As it never produces any suckers it is always propagated from seeds. The PeppivR-tree, or Chili Pepper is familiar to everybody in the southern part of California. It belongs to the sumach family of plants and is a small or middle sized evergreen tree, a native of Mexico and South America, and now extensively cultivated as a garden shrub or tree in California, where its graceful habit, evergreen character, beautiful foliage and aromatic fragrance render it a great favorite. It ripens seeds abun- dantly and the seeds are cheap and they germinate readily and the seedlings grow with the greatest freedom. These seed- lings raised in February may be six inches high in May. Then plant them out as a border to a sub-tropical bed in a warm sunny place and you wil
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