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After being shifted from the smaller-sized pots into 3- or 4-inch pots, the young plants will stand a great deal of liquid manure as soon as they are rooted through or become somewhat pot-bound. Many propagators plant out the young plants from 3- and 4-inch pots into coldframes after the middle of May, or when all danger of night frost is past. They do very well in the bright, hot, open sun, but must receive plenty of water. After being planted out in frames, they should be potted not later than September, and for early marketing as early as August. The plan of planting out and potting in the later part of summer or early autumn is a very practicable one, as the plants do not suffer so much from the severe heat during the summer.
After being shifted from the smaller-sized pots into 3- or 4-inch pots, the young plants will stand a great deal of liquid manure as soon as they are rooted through or become somewhat pot-bound. Many propagators plant out the young plants from 3- and 4-inch pots into coldframes after the middle of May, or when all danger of night frost is past. They do very well in the bright, hot, open sun, but must receive plenty of water. After being planted out in frames, they should be potted not later than September, and for early marketing as early as August. The plan of planting out and potting in the later part of summer or early autumn is a very practicable one, as the plants do not suffer so much from the severe heat during the summer.
F. afzelii, Don. is a plant from S. Afr., never described by Don. The plant in the trade is said to be F. eriobotroidea. Once advertised for indoor ornament.—F. carnosa, Hort. Advertised 1895 for indoors.—F. chauvierii, Hort. In Eu. this is said to be second only to F. elastica. Franceschi says it has broader and more oval lvs., large red figs, not edible, and comes from New Caledonia, where it attains 60 ft. J. D. Eisele says that it has oval lvs. with creamy white veins, is strong-growing, and should be valuable for subtropical gardening. The name is unknown in botanical literature. A plant cult, at N. Y. Bot. Card, as this species has orange fr.—F. cooperi, Hort., is cult, indoors from Trop. Amer. Advertised 1895. The name is unknown in botanical literature. G. 1:757.—F. dryepondtia, Hort., is a striking shrub with long-stalked lvs. that are silvery green above and dark purple beneath. Probably not a Ficus. R. B. 32, p. 85. Said to be a native of Afr.—F. cetveldiana, Hort., is a species "with large broadly oval lvs. and with the veins and nerves colored," something as in Caladium. The name is unknown in botanical literature. G.C. III. 28:303.—P. eriobotroides, Kunth & Bouche. Habitat unknown. See F. Afzelii.—F. falcate, Miq., is cult, but not advertised. A creeper, with lvs. often of 2 forms, leathery, tesselately dotted and colored beneath. It is a form of F. punctata, with lvs. oblong or subrhomboid, obtuse, not tapering below. India.—F. lucianii, Hort., "has large lvs." Intro. 1900. Otherwise unknown.—F. lucida. Dry. From India, but not described in Flora of British India. Advertised 1893 for indoors.—-F. maculata. Linn., described by Franceschi (1914) as with lvs. "large, oval, light green, not glossy. Cochin-China." must be some other plant than the true F. maculata, which is a serrate-lvd. fig from Santo Domingo.—F. nemoralis. Wall., is a "small tree or bush" with smooth, petioled lvs. which are 3-nerved and dark-colored beneath: fr. smooth axillary, about ½in. diam. India. K. 206, 207.—There are many forms.—F. princeps, Kunth & Bouche. Brazil. Cult, by Franceschi, who says it grows 60 ft. high and has magnificent foliage, which is bronze and copper-colored when young.—F. pyrifolia may be F. benjamina, F. erecta, F. fontanesii, or F. rubra. The name is advertised by Yokohama Nursery Co.. who also advertise F. erecta.—F. rugosa is a trade name for some fig as yet undeterminable. The true F. rugosa, Don, is perhaps a Trap. African species, but was not characterized by Don, and the status of the name is uncertain.
—F. sycomorus. Linn. (Sycomorus antiquorum, Gasp.), is a tree with peti- oled, ovate, entire 8-10-ribbed lvs. which are deciduous for some months each year: flu. greenish or yellowish in pedunculate racemes: fr. small but abundant, extensively used for food: it is a branching tree 30-40 ft. high, the lvs. smaller than those of the fig, more or lens angular or even lobed. Egypt and Syria; the sycamore of the Bible; Pharaoh's fig. Intro, in U. S.. but not in the trade.— F. vasta, Hort.=F. populifolia, an Abyssinian species not in cult. —F. wendlandii has lvs. "10-12 in. long by 8-10 in. wide, of a dark green color, and light green ribs and veins." Its habitat and fr. are unknown.—F. wrightii, Benth., a creeping or climbing fig not cult, in Amer. outside of fanciers' collections: lvs. 3-4 in. long, wedge-shaped, 3-nerved. Probably=F. foveolata, Wall. China.
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