Housing. Part 2
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This section is from the book "Commercial Gardening Vol2", by John Weathers (the Editor). Also available from Amazon: Commercial Gardening, A Practical & Scientific Treatise For Market Gardeners.
Housing. Part 2
For Insects
One 60 pot XL All to 2 gal. of water.
For Bust
Boil 8 lb. soft soap and 4 lb. Lifebuoy or other hard soap, and stir in as much paraffin as it will take - usually about 1½ pt. Use about 1 oz. to the gallon.
For Mildew
Use the last recipe or the following: Boil for 1 hr., in 5 gal. water, 1 lb. each of soft soap, soot, sulphur, and lime. Allow the mixture to settle and strain off. Use one 60 pot of clear liquid to 2 gal. water.
The following is a list of varieties for pots, with their average dates of flowering: -
Moneymaker | Oct. | 1. |
*Miss Collier | " | 10. |
*Mrs. Roots | " | 10. |
Felton's Favourite | " | 15. |
H. W. Thorpe | " | 15. |
*Miss E. Fulton | " | 30. |
*Mrs. Buckbee | Nov. | 7. |
Miss M. Jeffries | " | 25. |
*Mrs. Judson | Dec. | 1. |
Mrs. Thompson | " | 10. |
T. Pankoucke | " | 14. |
Mrs. D. Symes | " | 18. |
*Heston White | " | 18. |
Pink | ||
Renee | Oct. | 12. |
*Mrs. P. MacNeice | Nov. | 3. |
*Mary Thorpe | " | 15. |
Phoebe | " | 20. |
Rose Poitevine | " | 20. |
*Dr. Engulhard | " | 22. |
Mrs. Rolfe | " | 25. |
*A. J. Balfour | " | 25. |
Wells' late Pink | Dec. | 1. |
Mdlle Louise Charvet | Dec. | 10. |
Thorpe's Christmas Rose | " | 15. |
*Winter Cheer | " | 15. |
*Framfield Pink | " | 15. |
Bronze | ||
Mrs. P. A. Cragg | Oct. | 15. |
*Hortus Toulousanus | Nov. | 2. |
*Bronze F. MacNeice | " | 3. |
Heston Bronze | " | 15. |
Lady Lennard | " | 15. |
Hetty Wells | " | 20. |
Freda Bedford | " | 28. |
Lord Brook | Dec. | 5. |
Bronze Princess Victoria | " | 20. |
Russet | " | 20. |
Bed | ||
Market Red | Oct. | 12. |
Crimson King | " | 12. |
Mrs. J. Humphries | Nov. | 4. |
H. Silsbury | " | 14. |
Exmouth Crimson | " | 15. |
M. Hodgson | " | 24. |
*Baldock's Crimson | Dec. | 1. |
Yellow | ||
Tom Edwards | Oct. | 8. |
Cranford Yellow | " | 15. |
*Miss Mary Godfrey | " | 22. |
*Romance | J> | 31. |
David Ingamells | Nov. | 2. |
Le Peyrou | >> | 10. |
*Nogoya | Nov. | 21. |
Embleme Poitevine | " | 21. |
*December Gold | »> | 21. |
Yellow Lady Lennard | " | 21. |
Yellow Mrs. Thompson | Dec. | 4. |
*Francois Pilon | " | 5. |
Golden Princess Victoria | " | 10. |
W. H. Riemann | " | 20. |
Note. - Those marked * will lift from the open ground, and if grown for that purpose should be struck from cuttings in March and receive one stop only.
The following are spray varieties for flowering outdoors: -
White - Roi des Blancs, Holmes White, Mrs. Bailey; Yellow - Leslie and Carrie; Pink - Normandie, Betty Spark, Provence, La Somme; Bronze - Tonkin, October Gold, Tuckswood Bronze, Polly, Nina Blick; and all the Masse Family.
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