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Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh 
ae preparation of cut flowers for handling, 
no matter how you dispose of the product, 
is important. A cool cellar or a well house 
will be of the greatest service. Flowers should 
be cut early in the morning and kept in water 
in a cool place preferably for twelve to twenty- 
four hours, but for several hours at the least 
before being sold. Flowers cut from the garden 
and sold, or packed, directly will become wilted 
in an sanatl short time. Unless you are 
making a specialty of one or two things, prob- 
ably most of your flowers will be used in mixed 
bouquets. For bouquet work you will find an 
adequate supply of “greens” and of “bouquet 
stuff” will be indispensable. 
As to the things which you grow, that will 
depend entirely upon what you intend to do. 
For a roadside garden market, you should plan 
to have some flowers ready to sell as early as 
June and plan to have a continuous supply 
until frost. It is:best to have a good variety 
with two or three showy things such as 
Gladioli, Dahlias and Asters planted where 
they will be conspicuous when in bloom. Use 
named varieties and plant each kind by itself. 
An early start is essential. The bulk of your 
roadside sales will probably _be between the 
Fourth of July and Labor Day. Remember 
that flowers ahead of their season, if good, will 
attract more attention and bring better prices 
than they would later; Asters, Dahlias, weet 
Peas and even Gladioli should be started in- 
doors this month or early next to be ready for 
transplanting later on. Snapdragons should be 
started at once or potted plants may be bought 
and set out later. The new named sorts are 
very popular, and as the plants will last for a 
long time and are very productive, they are 
about as profitable as anything you can grow. 
Since Gladioli produce but one stalk each, suc- 
cession plantings should be made about every 
two weeks. Make at least three plantings of 
Sweet Peas—the first under glass, the second 
as soon as the ground can be worked, and the 
third a month later. 
In no pin-money proposition is irrigation 
more profitable than in growing flowers, espe- 
cially where the beds will be seen. In summer 
when the roadsides for miles around will be 
wilted and dust covered, people will stop out 
of curiosity to see your garden. 
What To Do With an Alkali Soil 
N COMBATTING alkali in a soil, proper 
drainage is of prime importance. Local 
conditions must of necessity determine the 
method of obtaining it. With good drainage 
established, an abundance of farmyard manure 
should be worked into the soil thoroughly and 
deeply. Establishing a good lawn on such a 
soil will be a matter of several years because 
it will require several dressings of barnyard 
manure to put such a soil into a fit condition 
for grass to find a permanent root hold. If the 
owner does not desire to raise potatoes, corn 
or other cultivated crop on the ground that is 
to be the lawn, he might the first year sow 
Poppy seed broadcast, which will provide a 
very brilliant effect and still leave him an op- 
portunity to work the soil again that fall and 
in the spring. A lawn is easily feasible on 
such a soil, but trying to establish grass im- 
mediately after the first application of manure 
and spading is foredoomed to failure. 
In raising flowers successfully the same gen- 
eral treatment of the soil is necessary, for 
barnyard manure will not only combat the 
alkali but soften up and mellow, so to speak, 
the hardest soil in a surprising manner. Here, 
also, the same principle of working the soil for 
several years applies, to facilitate which the 
gardener should confine himself to annuals 
until he is pretty certain that his soil is so 
friable that shallow cultivation is all that will 
be required for a number of years thereafter. 
To insure an abundance of bloom the annuals 
should be started in boxes within doors or in a 
coldframe, and then transplanted to the perma- 
nent location after the danger of killing frost is 
over. A few annuals are as well sown direct 
as far as their bloom is concerned. These are 
Cosmos, Nicotiana, Bachelor Buttons, Nas- 
turtiums, Poppies, and a few others. 
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