Parks Floral Magazine Vol 30 PDF Download

Excerpt from Park's Floral Magazine, Vol. 30: December, 1894 I will venture to say when a few roots have formed. It. Should be done before the leaf decays, and the bulb should be broader than the end of the stem. Put the bulb with the leaf attached in a small pot in a compost of leaf-mold, garden loam, sand and charcoal broken finely, about an inch below the surface. Place in asunny window, and when the leaf dies a shoot will start which Will continue to grow until it blooms, if it does well. I conside1 a branch better than a leaf ordinarily, but the best success I ever had with a Gloxinia was this: I had a leaf given to me in midsummer, and within one year it was a large plant with twenty th1ee blossoms on it at once, and many more buds. If a plant has six or eight blos soms open at once it is doing well. After blooming if a new shoot has started from the root it is well to cut off the top that has done blooming; otherwise let it die down, gradually withholding water until rather dry, when it may be set away to rest until a new shoot starts, t then bring to the light and water. I usually change mine from small to larger pots as well grow. The blossoms will last mu longer if kept from sunshine through the middle of the day in hot weather. Gloxinias may also be raised from seeds which are nearly as fine as dust, and should be sown in or on top of a box of very fine soil, Just press them in and cover with a cloth before watering, and keep covered until they sprout, when light should be admitted. But they must be watched closely until large enough to be transplanted, when they may be treated as if grown from a leaf. R. F. 'frost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.