Archive image from page 118 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 GREENHOUSE among amateurs. The Iiousewife is always asking how to make her wax-plant bloom, without knowing that it would bloora if she would let it alone in winter and l
Archive image from page 118 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 GREENHOUSE among amateurs. The Iiousewife is always asking how to make her wax-plant bloom, without knowing that it would bloora if she would let it alone in winter and let it grow in spring and summer. What we try to accom- plish by means of fertilizers, forcing and other special practices may often be accomplished almost without effort if we know the natural season of the plant. N early all Greenhouse plants are grown on this principle. We give them conditions as nearly normal to them as pos- sible. We endeavor to accommodate our conditions to the plant, not our plant to the conditions. There are some plants which it is possible to make bloom in ab- normal seasons, as roses, carnations, lilies : these we may force {see Foreinfi). But these forcing plants are few compared with tlio wlmlf number of Greenhouse species. The season n|- normal ;u'tivityis the key to the whole problem of grow in- phdiis under glass ; yet many a young man has scrvid .in apprenticeship, or has taken a course in an agricultural college, without learning this principle. The second principle from the plant side is this: The greater part of the (/roirfh should be mnCe before the plant is expected to h/iii. It is natural for aplant first to grow: then it bI< and makes its fruit. In the great majority of casts, tlirsr two great functions do not proceed simultaneously, at least not to their full de- gree. This principle is admirably illustrated in woody plants. The gardener always impresses upon the ap- prentice the necessity of securing' well ripened woud 'of Azalea
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