GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3272, 28 December 1881, Page 4

GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

All Ltbe greenhouse plants in pits and frames should be fully exposed once at night, a high temperature during the day is not of much consequence so long as there is sufficient ventilation to prevent the accumulation'of condensed moisture. Less water will be required by keeping close during the day. Fuchsias and balsams must bo shifted on as they advance, giving them an open compost with some well rotted cow dung. Calceolarias should be sown at once, and as the method of doing so profitably is but little known, the following instructions in detail will be acceptable : — Select a shady place and place a handlight abmifc half filled with rough ashes. Fill a six-inch pot to within one inch of the rim, half with drainage, the other half as follows : First rough pieces of turf, then fine soil, and surface with very fine sandy loam mixed with a little peat. Press, water well, and in six or eight hours after bow the seed evenly on the surface, pressing ii slightly in. Plunse the pot nearly to the rim in the ashes, put a square of glass over the pot, and until tho seedlings appear give moisture by watering the ashes. When germination has taken place raise the square of glass a little, then in a short time remove it at night, replacing it during the day ; give air by the the top of the hand-light, and as soon as the plants will bear ifc expose them fully ; prick out three in a pot, keeping them in a cool, shady place to produce strong, healthy plants which greenfly will hardly attack at all unless the seedlings should receive a check by allowing them to become too dry.