Genista

A beautiful evergreen shrub, bearing freely in spring
clusters of pea-shaped yellow flowers, richly fragrant. Cut back after
flowering, and in fall put in a cold room, forty degrees, or a frame,
giving several weeks rest. Cuttings may be rooted readily in spring,
when pruning the plants.

Daphne

is easily grown and very fragrant. As ornamental as
orange or lemon and very free flowering. Give almost no water in winter,
or store in cellar. Plants good for many years.

Browallia

A very attractive flowering shrub, easily grown in a cool
room, with plenty of sunlight. Sow seeds in 4-inch pots in August,
thinning to three or four. Repot to 6 inches. Cuttings make good plants.
Best grown as standards.

Bouvardia

Pink, white or red flowers, sweet scented. Propagated by
root cuttings, but as the plants are good for a number of years, the
best way is to get them from the florist. Old plants may be divided,
small enough to go into number three pots. Give either cuttings or
divisions about sixty degrees at night after potting, which should be in
spring, until put outdoors. Keep pinched to shape. Then bloom from late
fall to February.

Snapdragon - FLOWERING PLANTS

I feel somewhat doubtful about giving this comparatively little known
flower a place among the especially recommended plants. Not on the basis
of my own experience with it, but because in the several books in my
possession which deal with house plants, I do not find it mentioned.
There certainly can be no question that the long spikes of flowers in
pure white, light and dark reds, deep wines and clear yellows, with
combinations of two or more of these in many cases, are among our most
beautiful flowers. They stay in blossom a long time, each stalk opening
out slowly from the bottom to the top of the spike, like a gladiolus.
They seem, in my own experience at least, to stand almost any amount of
abuse; this spring several old plants that I had abandoned to their fate
insisted on coming to life again and trying to vie with their younger
progeny in flowering.

Snapdragons are easily raised from seed, or propagated by cuttings. For
winter blooming sow the former in March or April, grow on in a cool
place and keep pinched back to make bushy plants. If you have limited
room, let one stalk blossom on each plant, so that you can avoid
selecting duplicates. Cuttings may be taken at any time when the weather
is not too hot. Take the tops of flowering shoots which have not yet
matured so far as to become hollow.

The varieties have been greatly improved, that now sold as
Giant-flowered Hybrids being the best. There is also a dwarf type and of
still later introduction a double white. This will undoubtedly break
into the other colors and give us a valuable new race.

With the directions given for the foregoing, and also on pages 6 to 50,
the following brief instructions should be necessary to enable success
with the other flowering plants which are worth trying in the house for
winter blooming.

Como sembrar las semillas de flores

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Las instrucciones por lo general dadas deben cubrir semillas de flor a de tres a cinco veces su propia profundidad. Usted, si le gusta, puede tomar una regla de un pie y tratar de medir el diámetro de la semilla de mignonette o una begonia; pero usted probablemente hará ahorrar tiempo por simplemente tratando de cubrir pequeñas semillas tan ligeramente como posible. Separo mis filas de semilla con el punto de un lápiz - que tengo a mano de atrás de mi oído para escribir las etiquetas -- sembrar la
semillas finamente, y lo más uniformemente como posible por sacudiéndolo con cuidado de una esquina del sobre de semilla, que es dado un toque ligeramente con el lápiz, y luego hacer presión cada fila con el borde de un una tabla. Preparar el suelo, los mas fino como sea
posible -- cubra las semillas de vista -- y pulse la superficie plana
Con un pequeño pedazo de tabla. para terminar la operación deja ke se filtre una luz muy lijera y rociar un poco de agua con una ragadera de plantas.