. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. FLOEISTS' FLOWERS. So7 camel-hair 'brush to the blooms of a plant of good hahit and stiff well-marked foliage, which should in all cases be indispensable in the seed-bearing plants. In performing this some care is required, as the female organs are extremely delicate, and will not admit of any rough usage. The pollen should be gently applied to the stigma, and it wiU be found that at least a small portion has adhered, which is aU that is required. Not more than six flowers on a large plant should be allowed to seed, for if a greater num- ber be retaine
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. FLOEISTS' FLOWERS. So7 camel-hair 'brush to the blooms of a plant of good hahit and stiff well-marked foliage, which should in all cases be indispensable in the seed-bearing plants. In performing this some care is required, as the female organs are extremely delicate, and will not admit of any rough usage. The pollen should be gently applied to the stigma, and it wiU be found that at least a small portion has adhered, which is aU that is required. Not more than six flowers on a large plant should be allowed to seed, for if a greater num- ber be retained the seed will be small, and the plants wiU soon come up above the foliage, forming quite a coronet of turban-like blooms, which last a very- long time in full beauty. It is well to grow a few from seed every year, as the corms after they become three or four years of age are scarcely worth growing, as the flowers decrease very much both in quality and quantity. In the process of potting, the soil should be pressed down firmly, and the centre of the corm should be slightly elevated above the soil, or the. The Cyclamen. obtained fi-om it, in all probability, be wanting in that vigour which is at all times so important in seedlings. After fertilising the six best blooms, aU others should be at once removed, and the plants put by in a shady part of the green-house, but still having as much light as possible ; and no place can better suit them than a shelf protected from hot sun by wood-work about one foot or eighteen inches from the glass. The seeds ripen in about ten weeks, and they can be sown at once, as previously directed. There is a keen enjoyment in raising seedlings, the peculiar deHght of which is known only to the enthusiastic and painstaking florist. If Cyclamen bloom is wanted early, and a good succession kept, place a few at a time in a sHghtly warmer place, not forgetting that these plants cannot thrive in a close atmosphere. So treated, the flowers 22 young leaves
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