The Garden Under Glass

CHAPTER X OUTDOOR PLANTS IN THE GREENHOUSE We can form quite a list of plants which, though usually grown in the gården, are well worth a place in the greenhouse. Stocks, asters, heliotrope, antirrhinums, pentstemons, kochias, sweet-peas, Canterbury bells, auriculas, violets, Clarkias, godetias, wallflowers, lobelias, violas, campanulas, mignonette, nicotiana, petunia, verbena—these form quite a good list, and may be successfully grown by any amateur. Antirrhinums.-—These are grown from seeds or from cuttings, and I would recommend clear shades or self-colours. Seeds should be sown early in the spring and cuttings inserted in a cold frame in the autumn. They will be pricked off into boxes and worked along as if intended for outside, except that when large enougli for 3-inch pots, they will be put into them, and eventually into 6-inch pots, or possibly 7-inch, in which good plants should be obtained. Auriculas.—These plants are not the favourites they used to be in the greenhouse. If it is decided to grow them—and they are well worth it-—quite good kinds may be grown from seeds sown in the spring and treated in a männer similar to primulas. Polyanthus might also be grown in the greenhouse with good results if good clumps are potted up in the autumn. Asters.—These form delightful subjects for pots, and 123