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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veral are very ornamental when inbloom. One of the best, especially for baskets, an evergreen, withshort, pendulous growths, is named C. maurilanicus. The flowersare blue, and about an inch across. C. tricolor makes a very suitableplant for hanging baskets. Propagation. This plant is usually increased by division, orcuttings of the ripe growths early in Spring. Seeds are also offered. Culture. A fibrous soil is preferred by these plants in thegreenhouse. HEDERA (English Ivy). The varieties of H. helix are numer-ous; some have very small leaves as in H. Doner aliens is, others arevery large leaved, as, for instance, H. dentata. Others again arebeautifully variegated. H. h. var. haltica seems the hardiest form.Nearly all of the Ivies make good pot plants, and some of the va-rieties will develop more leaves and sterns to a given size of potthan any other plant in cultivation. The less sun the plants get inWinter the hardier they will be, as rapid thawing and freezing is 372 PLANT CULTURE
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Hedera helix—English Ivy injurious to the foliage. Where a supply of leaves is wanted duringthe Winter the vines may be planted on a position sloping to thenorth. In cold locahties a light covering of fine branches will bebeneficial. Propagation. If the cuttings are taken from outdoorplants propagation should be done in Autumn, as then the foHageis at its best, and it keeps splendidly during the Winter months ongood sized cuttings rooted in frames. The variegated kinds shouldbe given the protection of a frame, especially for stock purposes;and cuttings of these kinds are rooted in IVlarch. They will not rootso freely from large sized cuttings as from more moderate sizedones. HIDALGOA (Childsia. Treasure Vine). H. Werckki, thecHmbing Dahha, is a native of the mountain regions of Costa Rica.It is a vine of soft growth with compound leaves. The flowers are VINES, HARDY AND TENDER 373 not unlike those of a single Zinnia; the color is intense scarlet. Likeother greenhouse vines of this f

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