. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 400 The American Florist Mar. 25, THE PERENNIALS. ^ Propagating: Phlox. The increase by seed or otherwise to get up stock to make good depletion by sales, may be carried on the year through if advantage is taken of each season in its turn, and the suitable condition of the plants be noted. One would think that in this day and gen- eration there are no secrets hidden in the art of propagation, but if any read- er knows how to get up stock of the double form of Gypsophila paniculata, he will confer a favor on many o
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 400 The American Florist Mar. 25, THE PERENNIALS. ^ Propagating: Phlox. The increase by seed or otherwise to get up stock to make good depletion by sales, may be carried on the year through if advantage is taken of each season in its turn, and the suitable condition of the plants be noted. One would think that in this day and gen- eration there are no secrets hidden in the art of propagation, but if any read- er knows how to get up stock of the double form of Gypsophila paniculata, he will confer a favor on many of us. In a general way it may be said that all double flowered plants of herba- ceous perennial habit must be increas- ed by division or cuttings, the repro- ductive organs are replaced by petals, sometimes a few at the commencement which is an accident on the part of nature, and all good hybridists will tell how difficult it is to add to the number of extra parts until occasionally, all at once, we have the perfectly double flower, also an accident. There is no wizardry or creative power possessed by man yet, in the de- velopment of new kinds, fortunate is he that can keep up the standard of existing strains, for the tendency of all nature is to degenerate and in culti- vated plants they often seem terribly anxious to get back home to the type. They who see and recognize the least variation from the straight and narrow path of a type, have all the advantages that can be given as a start to a raiser of improved garden plants. Speaking of reversion, who has not observed an old neglected garden, or a place where a garden once was, per- haps only the cellar-hole remains of what was once a home, there are a lot of tawny day lily roots escaped to the roadside and usually some phlox, these are always of the old purplish variety or species, from which our garden phlox sprung, it does not take long only a generation or two for this to occur. The choice ones cannot make the . fight bein
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