. Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener [microform] : a guide in all matters relating to the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and their value for cultivation in this climate. Gardening; Flower gardening; Fruit-culture; Jardinage; Floriculture; Horticulture fruitière. ii 4 I 4 J' >. ?! ^ !ii ' r 338 BEDDINQ The Lantana.—This very pretty and very free flowering plant has not been as much iised among us for bedding purposes as its beauty de- serves. It is of very easy cul- ture, flourishes well in any gar- den soil, indeed, often growing too well, if plant- ed in
. Canadian fruit, flower, and kitchen gardener [microform] : a guide in all matters relating to the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables and their value for cultivation in this climate. Gardening; Flower gardening; Fruit-culture; Jardinage; Floriculture; Horticulture fruitière. ii 4 I 4 J' >. ?! ^ !ii ' r 338 BEDDINQ The Lantana.—This very pretty and very free flowering plant has not been as much iised among us for bedding purposes as its beauty de- serves. It is of very easy cul- ture, flourishes well in any gar- den soil, indeed, often growing too well, if plant- ed in rich soil, running too much to wood in proportion to the bloom. It is of a shrub- ^'B- '0 by habit, begin- ning to flower when from four to six inches high, and continuing to increase in size and abundance of bloom until the fro3t comes. The flowers are of various colors, yellow, white, orange, lilac, rose, and purple, and these arranged in globular heads, each head, in many of the varieties, containing flowers of several r^olors. A bed, containing several varieties of the Lantana, is not to ba easily surpassed in brilliancy of bloom or attractiveness of coloring. Plants obtained at the same time with Verbenas may be planted in the open ground, as soon as danger from frost is over. They should be set in a bed by themselves, in not very rich, but well-drained soil, about two feet apart each way. As soon as the first frost blackens the leaves they should be taken up, cut well back, and with the roots in a pot or box of earth set under the green-house stage, or, if one has no green-house, in a warm dry cellar. The soil in the pot or box shoiUd be just kept from becoming entirely dry. In tlu; spring they may be brought to the light and heat, watered more freely, started into growth, ^md when the frosts are over, planted again in the open ground,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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