. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 898 The American Florist. /uly /p, grafted upon the common privet, the latter being a good method for the pro- duction of standard plants. Our old friend, the aspidistra, will naturally suggest itself for the window box, and whether It be the plain green leaves of the type or the prettily marked ones of the variegated form, there are but few plants with such tough and enduring foliage. Unless it has been already attended to, the division and repotting of aspidistras should be per- formed at once in order to get a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 898 The American Florist. /uly /p, grafted upon the common privet, the latter being a good method for the pro- duction of standard plants. Our old friend, the aspidistra, will naturally suggest itself for the window box, and whether It be the plain green leaves of the type or the prettily marked ones of the variegated form, there are but few plants with such tough and enduring foliage. Unless it has been already attended to, the division and repotting of aspidistras should be per- formed at once in order to get a good and well developed growth on them before winter. The division of the old rhizomes of aspidistras has been noted before, but another reminder may not be out of place at this time regarding the fact that those under-ground stems that are so plentiful in an old pot or tub of aspidis- tra form very useful material for propa- gation, by being cut into pieces about one inch in length and then planted in a cut- ting bed with a covering of one inch of sand over them, or in shallow boxes, if it may be more convenient. Such cuttings seldom fail to start sooner or later, the stems in question having a dormant eye at nearly every joint. Pittosporum Tobira is another shrub that may be used in window boxes. It has tough, dark green leaves somewhat like those of a rhododendron, the small white and rather fragrant flowers being succeeded by bunches of nearly black berries about the size of peas. This pittosporum is a rather short jointed hard-wooded shrub, introduced, I think; from Japan, and is not a new plant though more uncommon than those noted before, and is also slower in growth. Some ivies, both green and variegated, must not be forgotten, the common English ivy being always in demand, provided one has strong, clean plants ' and neatly trained so that they may be either used as a screen or by the removal of the stakes may be planted to hang down. Another good ivy of the broad- leav
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