SPRING NOTES FOR LAWN, FLOWER-GARDEN AND 



WINDOW. 



BORDER PLANTS — WINDOW PLANTS — FLOWERING 

 BULBS— ANNUALS— SEEDS FOR BORDER PLANTING. 



BY 



WM. HUNT, 



SUPT. GREENHOUSES, O. A. C, GUELPH. 



I^HE mild, sloppy weather we are ex- 

 periencing^ at the present date (Feb. 

 nth) bids fair to denude plant life entirely 

 of its protective blanket of snow. Prema- 

 ture and partial spring weather is very try- 

 ing and often fatal to plant life. Divested 

 of their warm winter covering of snow, 

 exposed oftentimes to sharp frost at night 

 and bright sunshine in the day time, pro- 

 ducing alternate periods of freezing and 

 thawing, with intervals of cold parching 

 winds, these conditions prove more fatal 

 to plant lite than when more severe weather 

 prevails and the plants are still covered in 

 their protective mantle of snow. 



It is in these prematurely early spring 

 seasons that the plant lover must take more 

 than ordinary precautions with plants or 

 shrubs of questionable hardiness on the lawn 

 or in the garden. Tender rose bushes, or 

 shrubs that have perhaps been unprotected 

 during the winter except for their covering 

 of snow, will benefit very much by having 

 some protective material such as a light 

 covering of long straw or strawy manure, 

 or even a few fresh pine or cedar boughs 

 placed so as to shield them at least partially 

 from the parching wind and sun, that are 

 more to be dreaded really than the frost. 



BORDER PLANTS. 



Border plants, such as biennial Campanu- 

 las, Hollyhocks, perennial Phlox, Polyanthus 

 Primrose, and even violets, will be greatly 



benefitted by a slight covering of some light 

 protective material, if weather conditions 

 exist in early March such as I have de- 

 scribed. Premature spring weather often 

 means a premature death of tender plant 

 life, unless protective measures are taken in 



Fig. 2557. Narcissus, Von Sign, 



