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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



August, 1911 





their presence felt in the continuity of 

 bloom. 



This programme gives me flowers the 

 season through. If any one will follow 

 out this course they will have no reason 

 to complain of the lack of bloom. Aside 

 from this of cour.se I have my annuals, 

 but my heading refers more especially 

 to perennials. 



Florists will sometimes get disappoint- 

 ed in experimenting with new flowers. 

 This year I tried the arctotis. I will not 

 grow it again. With me it is no good. 

 Its flowers and foliage are too much of 

 the same color, and its length of blos- 

 som is ridiculously short. It is open 

 when I get up and at noon it shuts up, 

 and does not open until the next morn- 

 ing. We have no use for it. 



Hedges 



Barlow CDmberludk Port Hope 



Planters of hedges and of Spy apples 

 are akin. They are kindly people who 

 "do unto others as they would be done 

 by." Hedges are not for'a day, nor for 

 a year, but are a permanent beauty and 

 adornment. They evidence love of home. 



Cedar seems best adapted to our lati- 

 tude. Being born of swampy ground it 

 needs moisture. The hedge represented 

 in the accompanying illustration is mulch- 

 ed every other year with stable manure, 

 and in very dry seasons, occasionally 

 watered at the roots. 



Cedar hedges should be trimmed in 



cone form, 

 not straight 

 sided, bui 

 wider at bot- 

 tom and tap- 

 ering to the 

 top — the 

 natural form 

 of a single 

 tree, but 

 trimmed 

 closer. The 

 tops must 

 not be left 

 flat, else the 

 snow will 

 lodge and in- 

 i u r e the 

 fronds with 

 ice. 



A privet 

 hedge is of 

 quicker 



The Back Garden of T. D. Dockray, Toronto, ,Ont. 



growth, but is liable to frost and not so 

 permanent. In its later years, just when 

 its presence has become most accustomed, 

 it may get ragged and may have to be 

 pulled up. 



A speedy and convenient hedge ef- 

 fect can be produced by posts, painted 

 green, planted six feet apart, with strong 

 wire fence four feet high, between. Plant 

 Virginia Creepers at foot of each post, 

 and at two feet centres between. 



An Artistic Gate to Kitchen Garden 



Oedar hedge at Dunnain, the residence of 

 Mr. Barlow Cumberland. Port Hope. Ont. 



Flowers for Winter Flowering 



Wm. Hant, Oat. Airicnltoral College, Gnelph, Ont. 



House and window plants, such as 

 palms, Ficus elastica (Rubber Plant), 

 Cordyiines, or Asparagus plumosa (some- 

 times wrongly called Asparagus Fern), 

 Asparagus Sprengerii, Boston Ferns, 

 and similar plants, should be re-potted 

 about the end of August if the pots have 

 become full of roots and the soil exhaust- 

 ed. Nearly an inch of drainage matter, 

 such as broken flower pots, coarse grav- 

 el, coal cinders or lump charcoal, should 

 be placed in the bottom of a six or seven 

 inch pot. 



A good potting soil for these plants 

 can be made by mixing one part fine 

 clean pit sand, one part leaf mould or 

 black soil from the bush, one part dry 

 cow manure powdered fine, and five or 

 six parts of light loamy soil. Soil taken 

 from loamy soil that has been allowed to 

 rot, with one-fourth part of dry cow man- 

 ure, one part sand, and one part leaf 

 mould, would be still better for the plants. 

 In repotting about one-third of the old 

 soil should be removed from around the 

 roots. 



After potting, water the plants well 

 once, then keep the soil only just moist 

 until growth has commenced. Shade the 

 plants for a week after repotting, and 

 sprinkle overhead with water daily. Stand 

 them in partial shade in hot weather. 

 Take the plants into the house after the 

 first week in September. 



Bulb roots in the mixed or perenni.il 

 border or where planted among shrubs 

 for permanent occupation, do not need to 

 be moved or transplanted until the clumps 

 have become matted and the flowers they 

 produce small and poor. It is best to 

 dig, divide, and transplant these ciumps 

 early in .\ugust, before they start to root 

 much and grow. Do not leave them un- 

 til bulb planting time in October. Bulbs 

 do not like to be disturbed after the roots 

 have well started, hence the necessity 

 of digging the permanent kinds up so 

 early. The seed heads should be cut off 

 all bulbs down to the first leaf as soon 

 as the flowers have dropped. This ap- 

 plies particularly to tulips and hyacinths. 

 Scillas and chionodoxa are often let go 

 to seed as they self-seed and produce lots 

 of seedling plants in that way. 



Prune in summer to check the growth 

 of the tree and throw the strength of the 

 tree into producing fruit, thus increasing 

 not only the yield but also the quality of 

 the fruit. 



Imutophjllnm Plaat (Clivi*) io Sammcr Time 



This is an eaeilv irrown plant, the leavce ol 

 which should bo kcnt fresh and green during 

 the winter by holding at a temperature of thirty- 

 five or forty degrees in a cool room or cellar. 

 The soil should be kept slightly dampened aa it 

 is a, moisture liTing plant. 



