Identifier: plantculturework01oliv (find matches)
Title: Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Oliver, George Watson, 1858-1923 Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891- joint author
Subjects: Gardening Greenhouses
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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k as if they wouldbenefit by being left in the cutting bed for a longer period, will, asa rule, come along all right if placed at the edge of the pot insteadof at the middle. The roots in this position make progress rapidly,and the plantlets can easily be given a place in the middle of a potduring their next shift. Cuttings with very fine roots should alwaysbe treated in this way. (See Fig. 2.) Many cuttings, when ready for potting, will be found to havethe roots pointing downward from the base of the cutting insteadof radiating from it; these are often delicate and easily bruised,but they can be preserved by taking some soil in one hand, lettingthe fingers accompany it into the pot, and before withdrawing thempress the soil against one side of the pot; place the roots againstthis and fill up with soil. In course of time practice will enablethe operator to pot cuttings as rapidly by this as by the ordinarymethod. In potting cuttings during the Winter months very great i6 PLANT CULTURE
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GENERAL CULTURAL NOTES 17 care should be exercised in preventing a check through putting themin soil which is of a lower temperature than the sand from whichthey have been taken. It should not vary more than two degreesat the time of potting. This precaution is especially important inthe potting of the warmth loving conservatory plants. Glean Pots. It is the common custom, and a bad one, to putplants in dirty pots with merely the rough of the soil remain-ing in them being removed with a stick or cloth before using. Thisoperation takes more time than washing. A large number of potssubmerged in a big tub of water and allowed to stand for a fewdays will have the material adhering to them softened so that witha piece of woolen cloth and a boy that knows how, a large numbercan be cleaned in a short time so that they will be as good as new.There is no doubt that dirty pots work to the injury of the plantsin them. The inside soil adhering to the pot after use prevents aplant being easily kno

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