Cherry Pie

Cherry Pie (Heliotropium) - A great favourite for flower gardens on account of its delicate fragrance. For the flower garden spring-struck plants are the best. It is a good plan to take root cuttings in August or September, winter them in a greenhouse, and in spring to put them in a warm place, where they will soon produce plenty of cuttings. These cuttings may be struck on slight heat like Verbenas, potted on, made to grow rapidly, so as to be fit to plant out at the end of May when danger of frost is past.

Heliotropes may be raised from seed and flowered the same year; in fact, treated as annuals. Sown early—in February or the beginning of March—they become sturdy little plants before planting time. When bedded out they should be placed in good dry soil.

The following are good varieties, and new varieties are raised from time to time: Anna Turrell, General Garfield, Roi des Noirs, Triomphe de Liege, and the old H. peruvianum, which many like from its associations, if for no other reason. Heliotropes, though quiet in color, are charming flower garden plants, either when grown for their own sakes as simple masses or when associated with tall plants which grow above them. In cold soils and upland districts they are very slow at starting if not brought on and hardened off before being planted out in early June, and even then the growth is very slow, and the plant does much better in valley soils and sheltered gardens.

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