October, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



93 



in the cellar. You can put them in boxes 

 instead of potting but in this case remember 

 to pack the loam well about the roots. A 

 little water once and a while must be given 

 to prevent them from getting too dry. 

 Remember however, to keep the plants 

 away from the furnace. 



I have known people carry over old salvia 

 plants from year to year in their cellar. 

 Some of these plants are very large and 

 make a glorious show during the summer in 

 the garden. The plants are packed in boxes 

 with loam, and in the spring the branches 

 are cut back. Well rotted cow manure and 

 bone meal are used freely when planting out 

 in spring. These plants make a wonderful 

 show and seem almost too large to be salvias. 



GERANIUMS IN THE CELLAR 



Keep the best of your geraniums. What 

 you cannot use in your windows store in the 

 ceUar. There is positively no difficulty in 

 the matter of storage, in fact it is almost an 

 impossibility to kill old geranium plants if 

 given half a chance. Frost will spoil them to 

 be sure, but in the ordinary cellar the plants 

 can be successfully carried through the 

 winter. When taken from the ground pot 

 them or pack the roots in boxes. Cut down 

 the branches until the plant is reduced to a 

 stump. A little water during the winter 

 will insure success. Geraniums like the cold 

 and the rest in the cellar will make fine 

 plants of them the next season. 



In March take out the geraniums and pot 

 them and start into growth in a sunny win- 

 dow. They will quickly make new wood 

 and this new growth can be taken off with a 

 sharp knife as cuttings. These cuttings 

 put in sand in a sunny window will quickly 

 root. They are then to be potted in small 

 pots. The young plants will make first 

 size and first class plants by June. This is 

 much better than putting out the old plants 

 that you have saved over during the winter. 

 Of course it will be necessary to shift them 

 into larger pots twice or three times as they 

 grow. Along in April if you can do so, put 



them in a hotbed. This will give them a 

 start that they really need and it will save 

 a lot of time. If the old plants are put into 

 the hotbed you will have something really 

 worth looking at by planting time. Under 

 no condition plant out the old stumps with- 

 out cutting them back. 



A CAUTION 



Plants taken from a position where they 

 have been growing all summer and suddenly 

 transplanted into stuffy rooms, are sub- 

 jected to a severe shock, which can be 

 modified if you will keep in mind the follow- 

 ing: Plants like air (particularly those 

 that we are dealing with). When you dig 

 them up keep them out of doors as long as 

 the weather allows. When obliged to house 

 them, keep the windows open night and day 

 when there is no danger of frost. Give them 

 all the air you can before shutting up for the 

 winter. This treatment will aid the plants 

 to gradually accustom themselves to altered 

 conditions and so harden them that they will 

 start in to grow and prosper from the first. 





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Digging up the plants early will enable you 

 to give a week or ten days out of doors dur- 

 ing which time the plants can be thoroughly 

 watered and cared for. 



After the plants are taken in for the win- 

 ter they should be fed occasionally. For 

 this purpose use bone meal and nitrate of 

 soda. Work a little of the bone meal into 

 the soil. Nitrate of soda used in the pro- 

 portion of about an ounce to three gallons 

 of water occasionally will be sufficiently 

 strong to get good results. Don't think 

 that because a little is good a lot will be 

 proportionately better. 



Flowers For the North Side of 

 the House 



By G. Allen, Mass. 



FLOWERS which need and cry out for 

 the sun's warmest shining are still often 

 planted where they can get only his earliest 

 or his latest rays, or even none of his rays 

 at all. 



To be sure it is a temptation, especially 

 if your house faces the north, to plant on 

 its north side bright, sun-loving flowers, 

 because that side of the house being some- 

 what gloomy by reason of its continual shade 

 needs all the more brightness of bloom. And 

 of course, many of our brightest bloomers are 

 the sun's own flowers. But Nature can not 

 be forced to fit the facing of your house, and 

 unless on the north side of the house you 

 plant flowers that will thrive without direct 

 sunlight, straggly and half-hearted growth, 

 and few and stunted blossoms must result. 



Some plants that will thrive on the north 

 side of the house because they require par- 

 tial shade, are: Anemone japonica, ferns, for- 

 get-me-not, godetia, Lilium speciosum, lily- 

 of-the-valley, myrtle, monkshood, pansies, 

 tuberous begonias, and violets. The plants 

 that will do well there, though they will not 

 thrive as heartily as the others, are: coreop- 

 sis, cardinal flower, columbine, foxglove, lup- 

 ine, nicotiana, Pyrethrum uliginosum, phlox, 

 salvia, and veronica. 



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Any one of these plants, ageratum, tobacco, salvia lifted from the garden now, will furnish flowers indoors all winter 



