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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1906 



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Cosmos until November 



IN ORDER to have cosmos next fall when 

 the other tender flowers are gone start 

 now, and if you give your plants good care 

 you can cut flowers until November first. 



It is a late-blooming annual; in fact, it 

 blooms so late that in localities subjected to 

 early frosts it will have time to open only 

 a few flowers before being cut down. 



There are two varieties, white and pink, 

 and the flowers measure one and one-half to 

 two inches across. 



Seed should be sown indoors in March, 

 and the young plants grown along as rapidly 

 as possible. As it is a plant which does not 

 transplant easily, it is best to grow it in pots. 



When danger of frost is past, set them in 

 some place in the garden where they may 

 be covered when the early fall frosts come. 



Persons living in the Northern states, 

 where cosmos cannot be flowered out of doors 

 because of the shortness of the season, can 

 succeed by the following method ; many flor- 

 ists, in fact, handle the plant in this way, 

 that they may extend the flowering season. 



Instead of planting cosmos in the open 

 ground, grow it in pots. Shift the plants 

 gradually from two-inch to four-inch, from 

 four-inch to six-inch, and from the sixes to 

 nine-inch pots, always taking care not to 

 allow them to become potbound before shift- 

 ing. Flower them in the nine-inch pots. 



Boxes will answer the purpose just as well, 

 using boxes about a foot or fifteen inches 

 square for each plant. Transfer the plants 

 from the four-inch pots to the boxes. In 

 making so large a shift there is always danger 

 of the soil becoming sour because more water 

 is given than can be used by the plant ; there- 

 fore, until the box has become fairly well 

 filled with roots, avoid over-watering. 



Any good garden soil will grow cosmos. 

 It will be found advisable to incorporate 

 some sand in the soil, unless it is naturally 

 sandy, as it will keep the soil well drained. 

 Well-rotted horse manure may be added at 

 the rate of one part manure to three of soil. 



Be sure to have several holes in the bottom 

 of the box — four or five, one inch in di- 

 ameter — and about two inches of broken 

 pots, stones, or coal clinkers, for. drainage. 



The cosmos will grow six feet or more high, 

 but this is undesirable where the plants are 

 to be brought into the house in the fall. To 

 keep them down, and secure stocky plants, 

 pinch out the end of the stem when it is six 

 inches high, and repeat this just as soon as 

 the new shoots have made four inches of 

 growth. The pinching may be kept up until 

 the middle of July. This will give compact 

 plants, three or four feet high, in the fall. 

 A stout stake should be given the plant for 

 support. 



If the boxes or pots are plunged in coal 

 ashes during the summer the roots will be 

 kept cool, and earthworms will not enter the 

 soil either, but they must be taken up about 

 once a week, lifting them high enough to 

 break any roots which are seeking food 

 outside the pots. 



After the soil has become well filled with 

 roots, manure water of the color of weak tea 

 may be given once 01 twice a week. 



Massachusetts. W. Clark. 



