. 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. 72 ANTHURIUM ANTHUEIUM equal proportions, and plunged in a propagating bos in a temperature of 75° to 80°, with bottom heat. About the end of January is the most suitable time to take the cuttings. Anthuriums may also be propagated by seeds sown in a mixture of very fine librous peat and chopped sphagnum moj^s
. 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. 72 ANTHURIUM ANTHUEIUM equal proportions, and plunged in a propagating bos in a temperature of 75° to 80°, with bottom heat. About the end of January is the most suitable time to take the cuttings. Anthuriums may also be propagated by seeds sown in a mixture of very fine librous peat and chopped sphagnum moj^s in 4-inch pots. The seeds should be lightly covered with sphagnum and the pots placed either in a propagating case or under bell glasses, where a temperature of 80° can be maintained. A constant hu- mid atmosphere is very necessary to induce the seeds to germinate. The compost in which Anthuriums thrive best is a mixture of one-third fern root, or the fiber of peat with the dust shaken out, oue-third sphagnum moss and one-third broken crocks and charcoal. The pots must be well drained, and the plants should be coned up 2 or 3 inches above the rim of the pots, and finished off with a surfacing of live sphagnum moss. Established plants will only need repotting once in 2 or 3 years, but should have a fresh top-dressing every year ; the best time to overhaul them is about the end of .January, or before active growth commences. They should be given a shaded position, free from draughts of cold air, and ordinary stove temperature. Like most evergreen aroids, they require a copious supply of water at the roots and a humid atmosphere during the spring and summer months, and at no season of the year must the plants be allowed to become dry. Care must also be taken not to mar the leaves by hard spraying. The temperature during winter should not fall below 55°. Cult. by Edward J. Canning. Anthuriums such as A. Andrmanum, A. or^iatitni, and their numerous hybrid progeny, require at all
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