. 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. GLOXINIA using partly matured medium sized leaves with a small portion of leafstalk attached (l?ig Bit p 42-1) These may be inserted in an ordinar\ pr j i_ itni 1 1 \\here, if kept rather on the dry side thi \ \ i i 1 f(.rm tubeis, when they maj be potti 1 Si_edb GLYCYRRHIZA 653 ar> ten itted ibout iter In f
. 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. GLOXINIA using partly matured medium sized leaves with a small portion of leafstalk attached (l?ig Bit p 42-1) These may be inserted in an ordinar\ pr j i_ itni 1 1 \\here, if kept rather on the dry side thi \ \ i i 1 f(.rm tubeis, when they maj be potti 1 Si_edb GLYCYRRHIZA 653 ar> ten itted ibout iter In fact SUt( C SS H I) 1 I I 1 ,1 pends Urf<el\ u| in their most t i given from tin , i i i to wet the k x\ * , i i u^'i ili ' i 1 t mosphere during tUcii «in^ i the seedlings can be conveniently li n uld be potted singly into thumb pots n i r i|icU-(, using in subsequent shifts a mi\Iui it [ ^ kif mold, 1 part good flbious loam and 1 put \t The plants must be -nell shxdcd from sunlight ind placed m a position free from diaughts The seedlings should begin to flower b\ the middle of \ugust when they should be gn en in ibundante of air After flowering the leaves -Bill begin to m-iture whfu -n itii should be graduallj ^ithhtld As soon is the lenvcs have all ripened off the pots should be stored â¢^w^^ m s(.mr con . the 1 Hide for another month this will give a much longer period of blossoming The tubers should have all the old soil shaken off and be potted again in clean well drained pots, using sizes just large enough to accommodate the tubei s the compost being the same mixture as before recom. blooms (/ mended. should be given but little water until active root growth commences. As soon as the pots are filled with roots, they should be shifted on at once into the pots they are intended to flower in, as frequent shifts would more or less damage their leaves, which have a tendency to cling round the sides of the pots. The first batch should come into flower in June. W
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