The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . reatens. There are still many ferns of thenephrolepis family that are grown inbenches during the summer and pottedup in the fall, and these newly pottedplants will take rather more attentionthan those that have been grown inpots throughout the season, as the latterare so filled up with roots that theirgreatest requirement is an abundance ofwater, while those just lifted from thebench may need a temporary shadingand some care in watering until theroots take hold anew. A correspondent recently mentionedin The American Florist the fact thatt
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . reatens. There are still many ferns of thenephrolepis family that are grown inbenches during the summer and pottedup in the fall, and these newly pottedplants will take rather more attentionthan those that have been grown inpots throughout the season, as the latterare so filled up with roots that theirgreatest requirement is an abundance ofwater, while those just lifted from thebench may need a temporary shadingand some care in watering until theroots take hold anew. A correspondent recently mentionedin The American Florist the fact thatthe early plants of the various sportsfrom the Boston fern, as seen aroundPhiladelphia, are not very shapely, andsuggests that possibly these plants mayassume better form later in the idea is doubtless correct, for dur-ing the hot weather the nephrolepisleaves will lengthen out too much andare fewer in number, but as the seasoncools oft the growth is of a more evencharacter, and another thing to be tak-en into consideration is the fact that. A CHRYSANTHEMUM Mrs. Jl. A. Hansen of Galvesion, T<;x. the compound leaves of some of theseimproved forms of Nephrolepis exaltatatake longer in which to reach their fulldevelopment than the plain-leaved Bos-ton fern. Small ferms that have been grown inoutdoor frames will soon be in needof safer shelter, and wdiile they may beprotected from a few degrees of frostby covering with sashes, yet it will beunwise to delay their removal muchlonger, for these little pots are some-what of a nuisance to move in a Schicdei is being more grownand appreciated from year to year, anddoes well under much the same condi-tions as pot-grown Boston ferns, butcannot be grown as cheaply as the latter. It is best not to water this fern overhead very much at any time and especi-ally so during the winter, and as thefronds increase in length the plantsshould be raised up above the bench onpots or pedestals, in order to keep th
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