July, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HOETICULTURIST 



165 



Homes on Van Stittart 



Note that all front and division fences betw 

 and city there are residences and streets, the ap 

 moval of unsightly fences. 



cities of the United States have had a 

 very fine collection of Cacti for many 

 years. They have been bedded out 

 each season, and visitors have always 

 been led to the Cactus bed as one of the 

 sights of the park. These influences 

 have been quietly at work to bring these 

 peculiar plants into prominence, and 

 general favor. 



Renewing a Lawn 



I have had a fairly good lawn for three 

 years, but there is very little sod. I have 

 lots of earth and I want to know how it 

 would be if I put about half an inch of same 

 all over it on the top of the present grass. 

 Would I practically have to make a new 

 lawn, or would the present grass grow 

 through it? Of course, 1 expect I would 

 have to put some seed on. — H. S., Smith's 

 Falls, Ont. 



It will do no harm and probably will 

 be of benefit for you to place a half inch 

 or even more of well pulverized earth, 

 spread evenly on your lawn. This should 

 be done before the grass grows very 

 much. If much growth has been made, 

 mow it closely before applying the earth. 

 -Seed may be sown and raked in after the 

 earth has been spread. Make the surface 

 level and firm by rolling. 



Summer Care oS Bulbs 



Narcissus bulbs should be left undis- 

 turbed in the ground as long as they 

 continue to produce good flowers. Most 

 of the best varieties will produce good 

 flowers for four or five years. If it is 

 desired to increa.se the clumps or to make 

 new ones, they may be dug after a few 

 years and the bulbs separated and given 

 more room, when they will multiply again 

 with renewed vigor. Hyacinth bulbs 

 may be left in the ground froni year to 

 year, where they will often increase. If 

 tulips are in suitable soil they may be left 

 undisturbed for three or four years, or 



Ave., ^Woodstock, Ont. 



oen -lawns have been removed. In every town 

 nearance of which might be improved by the re- 



until they get too crowded to produce 

 good flowers or have died out so much 

 that they need to be replaced. As a rule, 

 the best flowers are obtained by planting 

 new bulbs each year. This is almost a 

 necessity for show beds. As soon as the 

 petals are formed, the seed pods should 

 be removed, in order to conserve the en- 

 ergy of the plant, which would be used 

 in developing .seeds instead of the bulbs, 

 but the stem and leaves should not be 

 cut until they have dried up as they are 

 necessary to the proper maturing of the 

 bulb. As soon as the stems and leaves 

 have died, the bulbs may be dug up, 

 cleaned, and kept dry until August, or if 

 the bed is needed for annuals, they 

 may be dug up shortly after they have 

 done flowering, and heeled in in a partly 

 shaded place so that they will dry up 

 gradually, in order to get them as mature 

 as possible. 



June Pinks 



T. H. Taylor, Hamilton, Ont. 



Although the June or Scotch Clove 

 Pink does not appear in the gardens of 

 to-day to the same extent as formerly, it 

 is still a very useful hardy border plant. 

 It has very neat foliage for a narrow bor- 

 der plant, particularly after the blooming 

 season is over when the new growth is 

 coming, and all flower stems have been 

 removed. Our preference for this flow- 

 er, with its exquisite odor, is shown by 

 the fact that although ours is only a small 

 garden in a city lot, a walk from the 

 house to the rear of the garden is bor- 

 dered with them, in addition to those 

 shown in the accompanying illustration. 

 .Some of the earliest recollections of gar- 

 dening and flowers take the writer back 

 to boyhood's days, when a handful of 

 the.se flowers were given him, leading to 

 a resolution that if ever the posses.sor of 

 a garden, this sweet flower with its de- 



lightful fragrance should have a goodly 

 space to itself. 



The culture is easy. It will grow in 

 any oidinary garden soil, though perhaps 

 a light soil suits it best, if fertilized. The 

 clump shown in the illustration grows in a 

 moderately heavy soil, which has been 

 well treated with fertilizer for the roses 

 growing behind the pinks. Those bor- 

 dering the walk are growing in a very 

 light soil. They are doing well but do 

 not show quite such good flowers as 

 those in the clump. 



This plant is very easy of propagation, 

 should any readers of The C.\n.\dian 

 IIoRTiciLTURiST wish to increase the 

 space devoted to it, or to raise new 

 plants for other garden-loving friends. 

 ■'\fter the bloom is over a heavy growth 

 of new spurs takes place which when 

 three or four inches long, can be cut 

 off and placed in a trench a few inches 

 apart, and the earth firmed around them. 

 By fall, most of the cuttings will be root- 

 ed, and will bloom the following June. 



Jane or Scotch Clove Pink 



A section of the flower bed in the garden of Mr. 

 Thomas II. Taylqr, Hamilton, Ont. (See accom- 

 panying article). 



The trench should preferably be in light 

 warm soil, with reasonable cjare that 

 the earth does not dry out. 



Several attempts have been made by 

 the writer to secure the White Pinks, Her 

 Majesty, Snow, etc., but either he has 

 been told that the florist was ".sold out," 

 or the order was filled with plants which 

 when they bloomed turned out to be the 

 old ones he already had. Her Majesty 

 more nearly approaches the carnation, 

 and is a beautiful flower, but no oppor- 

 tunity has yet occurred for the writer to 

 test its growth and hardiness. 



