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may be assisted to give us of her best. 

 Hence the landscape gardener studies the 

 site of his garden — its aspect, the char- 

 acter of its soil, its contour. A plot of 

 land has been compared to a human face, 

 and "that man is unwise who, to suit pref- 

 erences, for any given style of garden, 

 or with a view of copying a design from 

 another place, will ignore the character- 

 istics of the site at his disposal." In a 

 word, a garden should be in conformity 

 with its surroundings, and the individual 

 touch should ever distinguish it. 



By the application of heat and by 

 (retardation gardeners are now able to 

 achieve marvellous results, and experi- 

 ments that a centurj' ago would have been 

 considered outside the range of prac- 

 ticability are now carried out with suc- 

 cess. — '//it' Garden (English). 



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SOME HINTS ON WATERING. 



The operation of watering presents many 

 problems to gardeners, so perhaps a little 

 advice based on practical knowledge will be 

 useful to readers. Watering is really di- 

 vided into several headings, such as water- 

 ing at the roots, and "damping over" to 

 freshen or clean the foliage only. 



There is a certain important preparation 

 for watering which should always be made, 

 if possible, and this is the hoeing and stir- 

 ring of the surface soil. If this is not done, 

 the soil is apt to cake, and in that case most 

 of the water runs off (especially if applied 

 with a coarse-rosed can). It may be urged 

 that it is not possible to do this on borders 

 filled with bedding plants or in which an- 

 nuals have been planted out. And there is 

 something in this also. But the difficulty is 

 got over by pricking up the ground with a 

 small fork (this can always be done unless 

 the bedding plants and annuals are set too 

 thickly). 



The best of all watering is, of course, 

 watering at the roots. Many times I have 

 denounced surface waterings, sprinklings 

 and "dampings over" to be no good at all 

 except for giving an external appearance 

 of freshness to the foliage. Damping over 

 is done by "waving a can of water with a 

 fine rose lightly about over the foliage of 

 the plants in the borders!" It is useful at 

 its proper times, i. e., when the roots are 

 sufficiently wet from recent rains and only 

 the foliage wants freshening up, but it is 

 practically no good as Summer watering. 

 .•Vs said previously, root watering is the 

 essential, but this is, of course, modified as 

 necessity arises by spraying the foliage of 

 the plants as well. 



Several problems arise on this watering. 

 The question of the quantity to give and 

 the question of when to apply all claim our 

 attention and study. ".\t what time of the 

 day it is most suitable to give water?" This 

 question is still capable of being strongly 

 debated. 



Readers will, of course, well know that 

 though the sun rises very early in the Sum- 

 mer months, it docs not get very much 

 power (except in the very sunny South) 

 before eight o'clock, or sometimes nine 

 o'clock, in the morning. That suggests to 

 us ihe probable advantage of watering iii 

 the very early morning, and my experi- 

 ments have shown me that the advantage 

 arising out of early morning watering is 

 very great indeed. However, it is not al- 

 ways easy or even advisable, .-\fter a 

 roasting hot day one's annuals, especially in 



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