| Here are some great plants for brilliant profits from | | | | not a complete one. It may be of slender stone slabs |
| your greenhouse: | | | | wedged into the soil with spaces left between the |
| Pinks (Dianthus) | | | | slabs. For the gardener who wantschoice, long-lasting |
| Pinks, so easily grown, and in such a wide variety of | | | | material to add interest to any of these terrace |
| colors, are good plants for terraces, bedding, or | | | | features, suggest that he plant stone crops. |
| borders. There are single and double kinds, many | | | | They have thick foliage in shades of gray, green, and |
| having a pungent, clove like scent. | | | | rose-tinted green; attractive growth patterns (rosettes, |
| Start seed in February in the cool greenhouse. Make | | | | fernlike spires, and slender trailing stems); a bonus of |
| one transplanting to 2- or 3-inch pots, or sell directly | | | | interesting flowers, and the ability to grow in poor soil. |
| from the flats.to purchase a mixture. From a mixture | | | | You can grow these from seed, giving them the same |
| you will get shades of light lilac, rose, pink, and red. | | | | culture recommended for cactus (page 191). However, |
| Low-growing Dianthus deltoides has pretty small pink, | | | | the plants of most varieties are reasonably priced and |
| scarlet, or white flowers with little fragrance. These, | | | | the owner of a small greenhouse may find it more |
| too, flower the second year. | | | | profitable to purchase them in lots of 50 or 100 and |
| China pinks (Dianthus chinensis), the rainbow or annual | | | | retail them. Among my favorite sedums are S. acre, S. |
| pinks, grow rapidly from seeds sown in March and | | | | album, S. reflexum chameleon, and S. spurium. |
| grown in the cold greenhouse. Pot and sell from 2- or | | | | Hen-and-chickens is one of the most popular |
| 3-inch pots or directly from flats. They are not fragrant | | | | sempervivums. This one, a low-growing gray-green |
| but their single and double flowers in a wide variety of | | | | rosette, sends out tiny plants in such abundance it |
| colors make up for lack of fragrance, and they bloom | | | | would seem, indeed, to be an old mother hen and her |
| from seed the first year. | | | | chicks. Cobweb is another attractive sem-pervivum. |
| Fragrant-flowered Dianthus grenadina resembles the | | | | Gray-green, hairy leaves joined together by a lacy |
| florist carnation and will produce flowers from seed | | | | web, plus red flowers, make this an excellent choice |
| the first year but is not hardy in northern gardens. | | | | for the terrace. |
| Ranunculus | | | | Tuberous Begonias |
| These daintily flowered creepers make splendid | | | | You can't beat tuberous-rooted begonias for growing |
| terrace plants. The small double flowers are in shades | | | | in shady areas of the terrace. It's easy to see why |
| of yellow. Ranunculus asiaticus, tuberous rooted, is one | | | | they are called mocking-bird flower, for the blossoms |
| of the best. Although it can be propagated by seed, | | | | come in shapes resembling roses, gardenias, camellias, |
| the tubers are plentiful and low priced. Pot the tubers in | | | | and carnations. The colors are gorgeous, including pure |
| early January, several to a 7-inch bulb pan or flat of | | | | white, all shades of yellow and orange, pink, rose, and |
| soil. Tubers should be planted about 1 inch below the | | | | red. |
| soil surface. Grow them in the cool greenhouse, or cold | | | | If this is your first year with tuberous begonias, you |
| frame. When strong new growth shows, pot them in | | | | may want to start by offering mature tubers, started in |
| 2- or 3-inch pots of soil. | | | | pots. The tubers are reasonably priced-the domestics |
| Stonecrops-Sedutn and Sempervivum | | | | from California cost more than the imports, but they're |
| Most terracing includes steps, ledges, or a retaining wall | | | | usually larger and firmer. |
| of stone, brick, or cement. Often the retaining wall is | | | | |