COVERING UP DEFORMITIES. 



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winter should happen to be a severe one. It 

 is the medium sized, well rooted, stocky 

 plants that come through the winter the best. 

 Sow your seed rather thin, outside in the 

 garden, in a small plot of well pulverized 

 ground, and protect it from the sun and 

 heavy rains. After the seedlings are large 

 enough to handle make a frame by nailing 

 four pieces of boards together and place it 

 in the plot of ground }ou have prepared for 

 them. Dig the ground deep and then rake 

 it down to a fine surface and prick out all 

 your seedling pansies into this frame. Each 

 plant should be about four inches apart each 

 way. Begin with the largest plants and 



work down to the small ones. By doing 

 this you keep your plants the same distance 

 apart and avoid having a strong, robust one 

 overshadowing a tiny one here and there all 

 over the bed. 



Keep your plants shaded a few days after 

 being pricked out and well sprinkled with 

 water every day. After that they may be 

 exposed to the sun and air. If the weather 

 is dry they must be watered, but not too 

 much, as this is the time when you want to 

 build up a short, sturdy plant to resist the 

 winter. Too much water makes the plants 

 grow sappy and produces heavy foliage and 

 such plants are sure to die first. 



Chrysanthemums in June 



GEORGE HOLLIS, BRACOXDALE, ONT. 



JUNE, like Alay, is a busy month for the 

 chrysanthemum grower. The main 

 crop, that is all the late varieties, should be 

 planted this month. If you cannot spare 

 the house for a week or two, and your plants 

 are ready to plant, give them a size larger 

 pot at once, for if they become hard and are 

 stunted in any 'way your chances of getting 

 first-class flowers are gone. 



Keep the ventilators open night and day 

 on your late stock and also on the early 

 varieties you planted in May. Give the 

 plants a light spraying every morning and 

 be careful not to keep them over wet, which 

 would cause a soft growth. Plant each 

 variety separate in blocks across the 

 bench. Single stems can be put five inches 

 apart in a row and seven inches between the 

 rows. 



Your pot plants would be better were they 

 plunged outside for two months. Keep the 

 strongest growths pinched back during June 

 and do not over water them nor put them in 

 pots that are too large. A fair sized plant 

 can be grown in a seven inch pot, and a large 

 one in a nine inch pot. They will not need 

 any manure water. 



A good soil for the benches and pots is 

 four barrows of earth (two bushels to a bar- 



An Ugly Board Fence Made Beautiful 



Readers of The Horticulturist who have bare board fences in 

 their gardens can readily make them beautiful in the same manner 

 Mr. Thomas Paradine, of Hamilton, did last season wiih his as 

 shown in the illustration. The flowers along the right hand side of 

 the walk are nasturtiums,_ asters, dahlias and pansies. There are 

 other flowers in other parts of the garden which cat. not be seen in 

 the photo. The whole has to be seen before one can fully realize 

 what can be accomplished with a trifling expense. The fence on 

 the right hand is over si.x feet hi^h and is covered from view by the 

 nasturtiums and was very pretty at the time the photograph was 

 taken last August. 



row) and one barrow of well rotted manure 

 (cow manure preferred), with a four inch 

 pot of bone meal to each barrow load. Four 

 to five inches of earth in a bench is sufficient 

 to s:row higfh class blooms. 



