Punica (Pomegranate)
These plants are raised from seed sown in a high temperature in spring, or from cuttings a few inches in length taken at the same time and inserted in peaty compost. Keep moist in summer and a little on the dry side in winter, and grow in reasonable light.
Pot them on as soon as necessary, and in a comparatively short space of time handsome plants will be produced. Keep well watered and fed and place them in a good light to get the best out of them.
Besides being useful indoor plants they are equally attractive when hardened off and planted out in the garden in the centre of wide beds of annual flowers.
Small, star-shaped flowers are produced in profusion in winter, and there are numerous colours, of which the rose pink is probably best. New plants may be raised from seed sown in good heat in March, or by means of cuttings which root very easily at almost any time of the year if reasonable heat is available, somewhere in the order of 21C. (70F.).
In the past the tendency among hybridists has seemed to be towards the production of plants with an ever- increasing range of flower colours and shapes, with not much thought to’ the constitutional qualities.
This has changed in recent years and Holtkamp and Englert, like Mikkelsen with his tougher American poinsettia, have now produced plants which appear to have a built-in tolerance of difficult conditions. Having clone this they are now turning out.
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