. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 544 The American Florist. April 6,. F. B. McClintock. Secretary Soranton, Pa., Florists' Club. has to be handled and used for planting while well rotted manure mixed with the soil is of benefit when planting most hardy stock. Evergreens do not want it, and deep planting kills many every year. A sandy soil suits these best. Perennial plants, especially peonies, delphiniums, Shasta daisies, and all such as are prized for their flowers, should go into well prepared beds, deeply dug, well pulver- ized and manured. If
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 544 The American Florist. April 6,. F. B. McClintock. Secretary Soranton, Pa., Florists' Club. has to be handled and used for planting while well rotted manure mixed with the soil is of benefit when planting most hardy stock. Evergreens do not want it, and deep planting kills many every year. A sandy soil suits these best. Perennial plants, especially peonies, delphiniums, Shasta daisies, and all such as are prized for their flowers, should go into well prepared beds, deeply dug, well pulver- ized and manured. If large flowers are expected the plants must have something to feed on in order to produce them, and they differ from hard wooded stock. A tree or shrub will send out long roots supporting the top of the plant and pro- viding nourishment, while a perennial does not. Its roots only go a couple of feet from the plant, and its flowers and foliage will soon tell the kind of soil they are in. Cyclamens. Select the strongest seedlings now and pot them into 3y2S. Whether a fibrous loam or a light soil is used, see that the pots have proper drainage. The soil must be porous. A little too much sand in the soil is better than not enough. The small plants, and there always will be some in a batch of seedlings, if not large enough to go into 3%s, should be reset, about three inches apart, into flats. They will do better there than in 2j/$s, For those who grow a large number of plants bench culture entirely, up to Sep- tember, will prove one of the many suc- cessful ways in growing cyclamens, but, for the man who only uses a few hun- dred, pot culture is preferable; if the plants can go into 3%s by April 20, they will not suffer until the bedding season is practically over, when there will be more time to attend to the preparation for the coming winter months. While a cyclamen will make more growth during the months of August and September, than in the six months previous to that time, the pl
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