. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo3. The American Florist. 565 Give them plenty of water through the summer and syringe every day. A good selection comprises Mme. Vander Strasse, Phenomenal, Glory of Maches, Prince of Purples, and Avalanche for double; Lord Beaconsfield, Speciosa, Elm City, Little Beauty and Black Prince for single. Set aside a few stock plants of the best colors of double petunias. These should be planted out of doors as soon as the weather permits. Shortened back about the middle of August and started into new growth these wi
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo3. The American Florist. 565 Give them plenty of water through the summer and syringe every day. A good selection comprises Mme. Vander Strasse, Phenomenal, Glory of Maches, Prince of Purples, and Avalanche for double; Lord Beaconsfield, Speciosa, Elm City, Little Beauty and Black Prince for single. Set aside a few stock plants of the best colors of double petunias. These should be planted out of doors as soon as the weather permits. Shortened back about the middle of August and started into new growth these will afford plenty of cuttings for stock from which to propa- gate the young plants in winter. The old plants can also be lifted in fall, potted, and used for stock. Small plants of vincas and English iv\- should be planted out in the open ground as soon as possible, for lifting in the fall. A batch of heliotrope cuttings ought to be struck now to be grown in pots all summer for planting on the benches in fall, as plants grown out of doors lift badly. A few young plants of marguerites can also be shifted into larger pots and plunged outside as soon as possible. These, if shifted along through the sum- mer and given plenty of room to grow, will make good stock to cut from next winter. G. The Other Side of the Question. In a recent publication I noted an article under the heading of "Union ; To me it seemed altogether too insulting and abusive to go unanswered, and at the risk of being termed an incompetent, as mentioned, I take theliberty of contradicting in your widely circulated paper some of the assumptions. I had been looking for an explosion of this kind for some time from some greedy, selfish, narrow-minded individual, but little expected to see it come from an3' broad-minded horticul- turist. But, judging from the article mentioned, the author had better look into the subject a little deeper or confine himself to writing hints and encyclope- dias, which
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