Park's Floral Magazine, Vol. 30: A Monthly Journal of Floriculture; November, 1894 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Park's Floral Magazine, Vol. 30: A Monthly Journal of Floriculture; November, 1894

A five or six-inch pot is large enough, except for Cereus, for which I use a ten-inch pot, and do not repot oftener than once every three or four years, as I think if they are root-bound they are better bloomers. If I think the soil is getting a little poor I scrape off the top and add new soil 3. Little richer than I repot in, or I fill the saucers with liquid manure water occasionally. A plant that is repotted will sometimes refuse to bloom the first season. I al ways repot in February if I have to re pot any, so they will get the whole season to grow in. I water my plants in summer two or three times a w eek, and sprinkle them every sunshiny day. Be sure and have good drainage. I fill my pots one-third full of charcoal. A tablespoonful of coal oil mixed in a pint of milk will kill red spider, mealy bug and scales, and if thrip gets on my Phyllocactus I use tobacco water. I have a large collection of Cactuses, and have plenty of blooms. I have no failures. I have done a good deal of grafting with good success, and if the Editor would like to hear about it sometime I will tell y ou about it. Lewis Co., Mo.

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