THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



necessary to repot them, now is the best time 

 before active root growth has very much de- 

 veloped. Give them Hght rich soil and a 

 few pieces of broken pot for drainage. Do 

 not over pot them, as an over large pot in- 

 duces leaf growth, but few flowers. Good 

 drainage, plenty of water, and a moist warm 

 atmosphere, are the main essentials for suc- 

 cess with Callas. Too much soil around the 

 roots is not necessary or desirable when they 

 are grown in pots in the window to secure 

 bloom. 



Chrysanthe;:^ ums. — Pinching the 

 growth of these plants should be discon- 

 tinued after about the second week in July. 

 The plants should be potted early in August 

 if they have been planted out in the garden ; 

 or re-potted into larger pots to flower in if 

 they have hitherto been grown in pots. 



Pelargoniums. — These plants, that are 

 often known as Lady Washingtongeraniums, 

 should not be given much water during July. 

 Keep the soil barely moist, so as to dry off 

 and harden the wood, prior to cutting them 

 back, which should be done in August. 

 Pelargoniums should be stood outside dur- 

 ing the summer in a partially shaded posi- 

 tion. Stand the pots of these and all simi- 

 lar plants on a bed of coal ashes an inch or 

 two thick. This is necessary to keep earth 

 worms out of the bottom of the pots. 



Geraniums. — Plants of these that have 

 been kept pinched back should be allowed to 

 grow freely after the end of July, but the 

 blooms should be picked off until about the 

 end of August if they are expected to flower 

 well during the winter months. Cuttings 

 of geraniums, salvi<is, heliotrope, coleus, etc., 

 will strike readily in sand outside in the gar- 

 den at this season of the year, and will make 

 nice plants before winter. Shade the cut- 

 tings during the hottest part of the day, and 

 keep the sand v^^ell moist, but not soddened. 

 Old plants of geraniums in pots should bS 

 cut well back, allowed to break into growth 

 slightly again, and then be repotted. Old 



plants treated in this way will flower' well 

 during winter. 



Lilies. — Late in July or early in August 

 is usually the best time for planting new 

 clumps of garden lilies, or of transplanting 

 and dividing old clumps of lilies. It should 

 be remembered, however, that lilies of . al- 

 most all kinds dislike moving or transplant- 

 ing very often, so that it should only be done 

 when absolutely necessary from overcrowd- 

 ing. Lilies do not like manure placed near 

 their roots when transplanted, a mulch of 

 strawy manure on the surface of the ground 

 around them is much more beneficial than if 

 placed around their roots under the ground. 



Lily of the Valley may be transplanted to- 

 ward the end of August. These should not 

 be planted too deeply. An inch of soil 

 planted over them is generally sufficient. 

 The soil should be patted down fairly firm 

 with a spade after the pips are planted. A 

 light mulch of long strawy manure applied 

 late in the fall will help newly planted 

 cli^mps of these beautiful little gems of the 

 lily species. They give the best results 

 when planted in a partially shaded situation. 



Flowering Shrubs. — Keep the clipping 

 shears off the flowering shrubs. If the 

 loose straggling shoots of these useful lawn 

 decorative plants have not been thinned out 

 when they were in flower, as I have so often 

 recommended (so that they could be used 

 for ornamenting the mantel or dining room 

 table), the pruning should be left until late 

 autumn or early spring so that the growth 

 can be thinned out without clipping the 

 shrubs into unnatural and oftentimes ugly 

 shapes and forms. Clipping flowering 

 shrubs not only leaves the shrubs unnatural 

 and unsightly looking, but it removes about 

 all of the growth that produces blossom the 

 following season. 



Hydrangeas. — Give hardy lawn Hydran- 

 geas plenty of water at the roots during the 

 hot weather if large showy panicles of bloom 

 are expected in autumn. 



