File:Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1897 (1898) (18743565813).jpg

Identifier: annualreportoffr1897frui
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture; Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
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100 FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. Training and Staking. The method of training the chrysanthemum depends very much upon the object sought. If the grower desires to get an extra large bloom the plant should be trained to a single stem. All of the lateral buds should be pinched off as they appear and the terminal bud only allowed to develop a bloom. In this way we get an immense flower but the plant is to say the least top-heavy and unsightly.
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Rose Travena. Ivory. The best looking specimens, both plant aid bloom considered, are grown as bush plants. To obtain a plant of this kind the terminal bud must be pinched out when the plant is five or six inches high. In a short time five or six shoots will branch out, which must also be stopped when four or five inches long, and the operation repeated upon the shoots which branch out from these until we get a bushy symmetrical plant, having plenty of good strong branches upon which the bloom will appear later on in the season. If quality rather than quantity of bloom is desired the weakest of these flower buds may be pinched out and the vigor of the plant directed into the larger buds left. Staking will be found necessary to support the branches by the time the plants are half grown. The neatest and least conspicuous stake we have yet found for the purpose is made of stout, corrugated steel wire, like that used for stays in wire fences. These may be painted bo that they will hardly be discerned among the dark green of the foliage. We use three of these stakes to each plant, the length varying from two to four feet according to the height of the plant. Two or three hoops of much smaller wire are tied around these forming a circular trellis with the plant in the centre, keeping it in shape with as little unsightly staking as possible. Growing Exhibition Plants. For the growth of large exhibition plants, more care is necessary than can usually be given by the amateur, and unless he has a green-house it is hardly worth while attempting it. To get a standard plant, which is expected to assume tree-like proportions by October, a vigorous growing variety must be selected

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