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GARDENING. 



Nov. yj, 



FflEONIES. 



I have a pasony whose flowers are rose- 

 colored, edged with w hite, and are large 

 and grand. What is the proper way to 

 divide old pjeony roots? 1 took up some 

 clumps yesterday that were a yard in 

 diameter and as deep. In the middle the 

 old roots were dying, and old flower 

 stems seem to have rotted down deep into 

 the roots. I divided the buds and cut oft' 

 most of these old big roots. Was that 

 right? [Yes. Lift the whole clump, then 

 divide it much as you would tear a bi;.; 

 dahlia root asunder. A digging fork is 

 better for this purpose than a spade, it 

 doesn't cut the tubers so much. When 

 the clumps begin to die in the center it is 

 time to lift, divide and replant them.— 

 Ed.] L. G. C. 



Virginia. 



I have one. It came up as a sport in 

 my bed of the plain-leaved sort, and like 

 the type, has white flowers. I took it up 

 and planted it by itself and it lias con- 

 tinued to grovr and spread slowly, and is 

 quite pretty. [Xot uncommon in cultiva- 

 tion. It originated in other places in the 

 same way as yours did. .\nd in Dutch 

 and other catalogues we find it adver- 

 ti.sed.— Ed.] " L. G, C. 



Virginia. 



I find G.\RDE.\ING worth more to mt 

 than all the other gardening periodicals '. 

 have ever seen. Albert S.m.isburv. 



Whitewater, Wis. 



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