| After the first frosts have devastated the | | | | the benches at this time of year than the |
| outdoor garden, the home greenhouse comes into | | | | chrysanthemum. Even ordinary garden varieties, |
| its own. However useful or decorative it may be | | | | properly watered, fertilized and pinched back |
| at other seasons, each year, when the landscape | | | | during the summer, give a long-lasting colorful |
| grows bleak and the trees bare, there is renewed | | | | display. For the more ambitious grower, modern |
| pleasure in the sight of healthy, flowering plants | | | | hybridization offers a bewildering choice among |
| under glass. | | | | classifications, which include those known as |
| By November, autumn chores for the most part | | | | incurved and reflexed, dahlia-flowered and |
| are done. Permanent plants which have spent the | | | | anemone-flowered, plumed, feathery, spooned |
| summer outdoors are re-established. Bulbs are | | | | and spidery. |
| potted. Bins are filled with soil, sand, compost and | | | | In my own case, certain of the standard |
| the other materials that will be needed through | | | | large-flowered varieties of medium height have |
| the winter. With shorter days, many of them | | | | proved so satisfactory that I grow them from |
| sunless, greenhouse operations are slowed down. | | | | cuttings year after year and have little room for |
| There are, of course, certain things that require | | | | novelties. To lead off the procession there is the |
| attention. Care must be taken not to overwater | | | | deservedly popular yellow, followed by double |
| and not to fertilize too often. Seedlings started in | | | | whites, a two-toned red with golden overtones |
| August or September must be given what sun | | | | and follow it up with an appropriate scarlet bloom |
| there is and be transplanted before they become | | | | for the holiday season. |
| crowded to assure healthy plants for the benches | | | | Another plant which lends beauty to the late |
| after the turn of the year. Ventilation is important | | | | autumn greenhouse is the Camellia japonica. This |
| and it may be necessary to open a side ventilator | | | | species tends to bloom after Christmas, although |
| for a short period on a cold cloudy day when the | | | | a few early varieties will open in November or |
| automatic roof ventilators remain closed. | | | | December. In order to keep them away from |
| Look Out for Pests | | | | pest you should know the mealy bugs life cycle |
| There is never a time when one should not be on | | | | and when to put an insecticides to your plants. |
| the lookout for such pests as white fly or | | | | Camellia sasanqua, a species gives a profusion of |
| cyclamen mite and spray accordingly. In general, | | | | bloom all through the fall. Its flowers are smaller, |
| however, these tasks are routine and there is | | | | but cover the branches of a well grown specimen |
| time to enjoy the greenhouse without the | | | | that they are equally effective. Sasanquas also |
| pressure of work so familiar a month or two | | | | have the advantage of being faster to grow to a |
| earlier. | | | | blooming size and of being somewhat less |
| It is difficult to find a more rewarding flower for | | | | demanding as to culture. |