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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



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A type of greenhouse thait is being constructed in considerable numbers. Note the curved 



eaves. Lapped glass is here used. 



the hard pan beneath allows the roots 

 lopenetrate deep in the cool, loose sub- 

 soil, and to draw moisture from be- 

 neath, giving luxuriant foliage and 

 abundant bloom, even though the 

 weather may be particularly dry. 

 Paeonies, phloxes, hollyhocks, and iu 

 fact all the garden favorites luxuriate 

 under such conditions. As soon as the 

 border is ready you can commence 

 plantmg your paeonies, cutting off the 

 foliage down to a couple of inches of 

 stein. The old roots may be carefully 

 divided if you want more plants; if 

 not, plant the old roots whole. All 

 your herbaceous plants will be the bet- 

 ter if replanted into a new bed if they 

 have been growing for several vears 

 in the one spot. As a generarrule, 

 plant the latest growing at the back of 

 the border, or if it is in the centre of . 

 the garden, in the middle, and grade 

 down to the lowest, which should grow 

 by the edges. The charm of a border 

 is in the contrasts of color and forms 

 of foliage, so plant in groups or masses 

 as before advised. 



So much is to be said about planning 

 changes in the garden that one can 

 hardly mention everything in a short 

 article, but do not overlook having 

 some evergreens in your garden some- 

 M'here. 



Of late years many gardens have 

 been enriched by the planting of the 

 Colorado blue spruce, juniperus, Vir- 

 giniana glanea, abies veitchii garden 

 cedars, and the beautiful retinosporus. 

 The latter evergreen requires a little 



protection from strong winds and the 

 winter sun until it gets well estab- 

 lished._ They do best in a moist situa- 

 tion; in fact, they are an evergreen 

 that requires a lot of water, in common 

 with their American cousin, the com- 

 mon white cedar. If you have not suc- 

 ceeded with this class of evergreens 

 try growing them in a moister situa- 

 tion. 



Insects have been a great pest in 

 gardens this summer, particularly the 

 aphis. For the common green aphis 

 spray frequently with kerosene emul- 

 sion. For the black aphis, which both- 



er the heleniums and rudbeckia, use a 

 solution of nicotine, a preparation from 

 tobacco, sold by the seedsmen, and par- 

 ticularly useful in destroying these 

 pests outside and in greenhouses. 



Any time no^\- make cuttings of ger- 

 aniums and other soft wooded plants, 

 placing them in a mixture of soil and 

 sand in shallow boxes called flats. Put 

 them in thickly to allow for failures, 

 and place the boxes in some shaded, 

 sheltered corner. Water whenever 

 dry. They will root and make good 

 plants for early potting when you start 

 up your greenhouse in October. 



The Vegetable Garden 



M. B. Davis, B.S.A., Ottawa, Ont. 



In the potato patch attention to the 

 potato bug and to the late blight will 

 still be necessary. The ravages of the 

 potato bug will, of course, be fairly 

 well over, but in case they are not, 

 spray the foliage with some poison. 

 Spraying for late blight of potatoes 

 should have been commenced as soon 

 as the plants attained a height of four 

 or five inches. For the late blight 

 Bordeaux mixture is recommended, and 

 by adding paris green or arsenate of 

 lead the potato bugs may also be con- 

 trolled. To properly guard against 

 the blight frequent spraying at say 

 intervals of about two weeks will be 

 necessary. The formula to use is: 

 Blue stone, five pounds; lime, four 



pounds; paris green, twelve ounces; 

 water, forty gallons. 



The blue stone is dissolved in twenty 

 gallons of water, and the lime is gradu- 

 ally slaked in the same quantity of 

 water. After both are thoroughly in 

 solution and in suspension they may be 

 poured together and the paris green 

 added. This should be used at once. 

 If it is desired to keep same on hand, 

 keep the two stock solutions of copper 

 and lime separately but not mixed to- 

 gether. 



If troubled M'ith celery blight, 

 bordeaux mixture of the strength of 

 four pounds blue stone, four pounds 

 lime, and forty gallons of water is good. 

 Spray frequently and thoroughly. 



