. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSSg. The American Florist, 569. PV\\X RUP\COVk. house, but by the first week in March should go in a moderate heat and be repotted in fresh soil and 6-inch pots and be placed along the edge of beds and benches in single rows. Sencio heterophylla or German Ivy, as it is generally called, is a very rampant growing vine, always healthy looking and is indispensable for baskets or vases. About March i we cut up a lot of vines and insert two single eye cuttings in a 3 or ;,'2-inch pot filled with good soil, and repe
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSSg. The American Florist, 569. PV\\X RUP\COVk. house, but by the first week in March should go in a moderate heat and be repotted in fresh soil and 6-inch pots and be placed along the edge of beds and benches in single rows. Sencio heterophylla or German Ivy, as it is generally called, is a very rampant growing vine, always healthy looking and is indispensable for baskets or vases. About March i we cut up a lot of vines and insert two single eye cuttings in a 3 or ;,'2-inch pot filled with good soil, and repeat the same again in April with a second lot, the first being used for the larger vases and the second batch will be strong enough for hanging baskets and smaller urns. They will root in these pots just as well as in the propagating bencn and we save the trouble of pot- ting off. Convolvulus mauritanicus is a very valuable plant for the purpose, but the cuttings should be made the yerir before, some time in early summer and potted off into 2'j or 3 inch pots in which they may remain until the following February or March, when they will require a 3 ' > or .} inch pot; it is a charming sight when the plants are covered with the light blue saucer-shaped flowers in spring and early summer; the plant will stand our hot and dry weather admirably and still look lux- uriant all the year round. Sedum carneum is another good thing for dry situations and we grow it in quantity, plantini; and rooting in the pots like the tierman ivy to save labor; February or March is time enough for this. I do not know for certain that S. carneum is the right name for this plant, but at any rate it is a green sport from the variegated variety originated with me some years ago, and it grows so much better and stronger, producing great clusters of yellow flowers in May, June and July, that I discarded the variegated form entirely. The plants will droop over the pots from 12 to iS inches and corresponding
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