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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



September, igio 



wanted. A good soil for bulbs of .iliiiost 

 any kind is a rich sandy loam. 



Celery grows faster in September than 

 at any other pt-riod of the year and must 

 be given careful attention. Do not handle 

 it when wet as it causes rust. A good 

 watering with manure water in the 

 trenches once a week, being careful not 

 to touch the foliage, will be very bene- 

 ficial and improve its quality. 



.Sow spinach for early spring use and 

 when ground is frozen stiff enough lo 

 bear your weight cover with light litter. 



On first indication of frost ])ull all 

 fully develo(H-d tomatoes and place them 

 in a dry, shady place when they will ripen 

 more evenly than v\ hen placed in the sun. 

 .Squash also must be gathered and placed 

 in a dry place. 



.Strawberries should have their last 

 cultiv.'iting this month. If you have an 

 old bed that you wish to fruit ;mother 

 year give il a good fertilizer with blood 

 .ind bone or some other good fertilizer. 



I'lniil slirillrils .nul ;iny other onions 

 re(|uircd for e.iily spring use. 



September Work in the Flower Garden 



Gather seeds in fine dry weather. .Save 

 seed from only the best types of flowers. 

 Place them thinly in sh.'dlow boxes and 

 dry them thoroughly in a dry, airy shed 

 or room before storing them for the win- 

 ter. .Store them in the winter in a dry 

 cool room, temperature about 40°. .Avoid 

 keeping them near a stove or artificial 

 heat during the winter. 



Keep weeds hoed down until frosts 

 .set in. I^ate seeding weeds mean an 

 early spring crop. 



Plants of seedling perennials may be 

 planted out in the border early in Sep- 

 tember, or better still, unless they are 

 strong and vigorous, keep them in the 

 seed box or .seed bed all winter and plant 

 them in the early spring, as small seed- 

 lings are often destroyed when forking 

 over the border in the early spring. 



TIME TO TRANSPLANT 

 .Seedling pansy plants sown in .August 

 should be transplanted into light fairly 

 rich soil in cold frames or nursery plots 

 in September. Select a place where 

 drainage is good and no surface water 

 lies in the winter. 



Wallflowers and pentstemons that 

 have not flowered or that are not through 

 flowering can be dug up and potted into 

 good soil. Shade the plants for a few 

 days after potting. Sprinkle them with 

 water every day to prevent wilting. Keep 

 them out of doors as long as possible in 

 fine warm weather, until about the 

 middle of October. A few early light 

 while frosts will not hurt them. Put them 

 in ;i window away from fire heat, tem- 

 prraliirc ,-iboiit 50°. Keep the plants 

 Well watered ;il root and sprinkle the 

 loliage with water every two or three 

 days. They will give a lot of bloom 

 during the fall and early winter months. 

 Canna and dahlia roots should be dug 

 towards the end of the month before se- 

 vere frosts. Cut the tops down after 

 Ihey have been blackened by first frosts. 

 Dig the roots and place them under the 

 verandah or in a shed away from frost 

 for a week or ten days to dry, before 

 storing in the cellar for winter. Canna 

 roots like a rather warm moist place in 

 winter, temperature about 45° to 50°, as 

 they are of a tropical nature. Dahlia 

 roots keep best in a cool, moderately 



iroist cellar, temperature .^5° to 40°. 

 Where a potato will keep well will suit 

 dahli.i roots. 



\\'here fhe clumps of lily of the vallcv 

 li;i\c b<-c()nie loo dense and thick they 

 may be Iranspl.inted now. They like a 

 fairly light soil and a partially shaded 

 position. .All kinds of garden lilies that 

 rec(uire transplanting may be moved 

 now, but lily roots should be disturbed as 

 seldom as possible. They are decidedly 

 of the "l.cl me alone" class of plants and 

 do not like much shifting about. 

 ORDER YOUR PLANTS 



Order roots of paeonies now for plant- 

 ing early in October. October is the 

 best time to plant paeonies. Dicentras 

 or Bleeding Hearts are best divided and 

 transplanted in OctolDer if they require 

 it. Corydalis nobilis roots and corydalis 

 bulbosa can also be transplanted early 

 in the fall with better results than in the 

 spring. 



Chrysanthemums that have been plant- 

 ed in the garden should be dug up at 

 once and potted into good rich soil. 

 They require the same treatment as re- 

 commended for wallflower and pent- 

 stemons. 



A great deal more depends on the lay- 

 ing out of a garden than on what is 

 grown in it. — Miss M. E. Blacklock, 

 Toronto. 



Roses from June until November 



1 he illustration shown on page JO<>, 

 is of Mr. W. G. McKendrick's experi- 

 mcMilal rose garden on Toronto Isl.in<l, 

 where a foot of soil has been put on top 

 of the ordinary island sand and the ro.ses 

 grown thereon. The garden is about 

 seventy-live feet by fifty feet. It is en- 

 closed on the north with a high board 

 fence, on the east by a boat hou.se and 

 on the west by a residence. Two hun- 

 dred bushes of hybrid perpetuals arc 

 grown, and 400 bushes of hybrid teas 

 which Mr. McKendrick has been experi- 

 menting with to see if they will stand 

 'he winter in Can.ad.i. .Xboul 225 varie- 

 (ies in all are grown. 



In December the rose shoots :ire lied 

 together with raliia, and then the soil is 

 hoed up around the ro.se bush in the 

 s.ime way that potato hills are made, 

 covering the bush up from four to six 

 inches from the ordinary level of the 

 soil. This is all the attention the rose 

 bushes received last year, and not over 

 two per cent, of them died, although 

 they were very weak bushes. On the 

 fences and walls surrounding the rose 

 garden are over 100 climbing roses em- 

 bracing sixty-five named varieties, that, 

 in another year, should make these g:ir- 

 den walls "a thing of beauty." 



The white dome shaped articles scat- 

 tered through the garden are shades to 

 keep the rain and sun off special blooms 

 that the owner wishes to have protected 

 that he may prolong their life. 



The experience gained in this ro.se 

 garden shows that from four to five 

 crops of hybrid tea roses can be secured 

 from each variety from about the end of 

 June until the middle of November. 

 While the roses are not so large as the 

 bloom secured from the hybrid perpet- 

 uals, the fact that there is some bloom 

 in the hybrid tea beds all through the 

 summer makes this class of rose most 

 desirable for amateurs. 



Panties Grown in Alberta — a Bed Sixty Feet Long and Wintered without Protection 



Tliese pansies bloomed from May until September on the grounds of Mr. D. W. Spice, La- 

 combe. They were transplanted in May into a bed dug extra deep, and heavily manured. They 

 stai'ted to bloom almost at once and were one ma^s of bloom until the real hard frosts. They 

 were kept well watered and the Howers continually picked. 



