. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 716 The American Florist. June 6y Florists' Plant Notes. The bedding season is now at its height but it will be time well and profitably spent, to plant into the garden such plants as may be used to cut from during the summer, as well as stock plants for next season before everything is sold out. Young plants of heliotrope, lemon verbena, sweet alyssum, asters and antirrhium, especially the virhite of the latter, which will be found useful for design work, should be planted in the garden within reach of the hose f
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 716 The American Florist. June 6y Florists' Plant Notes. The bedding season is now at its height but it will be time well and profitably spent, to plant into the garden such plants as may be used to cut from during the summer, as well as stock plants for next season before everything is sold out. Young plants of heliotrope, lemon verbena, sweet alyssum, asters and antirrhium, especially the virhite of the latter, which will be found useful for design work, should be planted in the garden within reach of the hose for sum- mer flowering. It is a good plan to prepare the land so as to make irrigation possible in dry weather. To do this properly it is neces- sary to grade the land until it is perfectly level with a gradual slope from the highest to lowest point which will permit an easy flow of water between the rows. It is possible, of course, to irrigate undulating land as well, although this is necessarily a more expensive and complicated process, the object being to conduct the water by means of pipes to the highest pointin the land and running the ditches between the rows of plants which are made in the direction of the slope of the land. When the science of irrigation is more universally understood it will doubtless be practiced all over the country, for when valuable crops are at stake the fickle weather cannot be depended upon to insure a harvest. STOCK PLANTS. Small plants of Snowcrest and Long- _ fellow daisies, divided in early spring, should be planted in the border or elsewhere in good soil for dividing again in the fall. In planting out the stock plants of geraniums, see that the varieties are These are cut back late in summer and furnish an abundance of cuttings which are used as stock from vrhich to propa- gate during the winter. A sufficient number of plants of the many varieties of coleus, especially of Golden Bedder and Vershaffelti, had better be secured and planted out
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