. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. You Get it at a Glance. treble or quadruple wliat they ever have been before. PBOPAQATINa SHASTA DAISIES. I have some 1-year-old Shasta daisies which are good-sized clumps and which bloomed well last summer. I wish to increase my stock of plants and still have as many flowers as pos- sible in the coming summer. Will the undivided clumps produce more flowers than well cultivated divided clumps during the coming summer? V. R. F. The undivided clumps would give the best returns the first summer. Had di- vision been made in the fall, the re- sults woul
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. You Get it at a Glance. treble or quadruple wliat they ever have been before. PBOPAQATINa SHASTA DAISIES. I have some 1-year-old Shasta daisies which are good-sized clumps and which bloomed well last summer. I wish to increase my stock of plants and still have as many flowers as pos- sible in the coming summer. Will the undivided clumps produce more flowers than well cultivated divided clumps during the coming summer? V. R. F. The undivided clumps would give the best returns the first summer. Had di- vision been made in the fall, the re- sults would have been more favorable to divided clumps. You can sow seeds of Shasta daisies now and get strong plants before spring sale time. Many of these will bloom moderately the first season. C. W. YELLOW SiABaUEBITES. What care and treatment should be given yellow daisies or marguerites? When should the cuttings be rooted in order to get them to bloom by Novem- ber 1? I have been rooting them in sand about February, then putting them in 2-inch pots. As soon as it was warm enough, I planted them outside until August, when they were put in the greenhouse. Out of 700 plants in the field, about fifty were saved; the rest died in the field. After the fifty plants were removed to the greenhouse, they attained a height of two and a half to three feet before they com- menced to bloom. What I am particu- larly intterested in is, how to get the blooms early in the winter. I have only now commenced to cut flowers from the plants which were put in- the house in August. P. J. V. You will never get any success by <plantdcig yellow marguej-ites outdoors and lifting them. Old plants should be carried through the summer in pots. These should be stored outdoors, are - iff ? •Htarts »*4 FloVtfs". Anderson's Floral Valentines Titr n«iM m^; •• «^ s. va< ». 4^t, u. aa •mL „.,«««.» ..U .M .1 Am AmJ —»??—I a*** «ba •?« T*B > "U ^a* N* (J
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