. 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. Gardening. 1508 RESURRECTION PLANTS plant could he grown in a window-garden. For his spe- cial purpose the writer has been accustomed to sow seeds in Feb. in 4-iuch pots, using a light, sandy soil, iu a house with a temp, of «0° P. As soon as the seed- lings are large enough they are transplanted into other 4-ineh pots, 3
. 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. Gardening. 1508 RESURRECTION PLANTS plant could he grown in a window-garden. For his spe- cial purpose the writer has been accustomed to sow seeds in Feb. in 4-iuch pots, using a light, sandy soil, iu a house with a temp, of «0° P. As soon as the seed- lings are large enough they are transplanted into other 4-ineh pots, 3 plants to a pot. As to the vitality of the seed the writer can only say that the seeds of Cruciferaj, being mealy, not oily, ofteu retain their vitality for five years or more. Selaghiella lepidopJiylhi is a perennial plant, it is rarely cultivated in greenhouses for ornament, like the evergreen kinds. It is chiefly cult, in botanic gardens or by fanciers of ferns and selaginellas, as it is by no means the most beautiful member of the genus. The writer grew a plant of it for four years, and once saw at one of the botanical gardens a plant which through long cultivation had a stem almost a foot high. It looked like a miniature tree-fern, except of coarse that the fronds were arranged in a dense rosette, which gave the fronds a flat rather than a pendulous appearance. Whether the plants received directly from Texas have a crop of sp"res on them is a question. The spores do not discliarge when the plants are wetted. Many extravagant statements are made about tlie Bird''s-nest Moss. The dried plants offered by the trade will turn green and grow unless they are too old or have been kept dry too long. They would probably not grow if kept over"more than one season. They cannot be dried again and again indefinitely. If a plant has been grown in a pot for three or four years and is then dried off it will die. Most people who grow tliese plants as curiosities place
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