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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1912 



WOURITE FLOWER 



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KELWAY'S famous Hardy 

 Herbaceous Plants are modern 

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 favourites. The cottage "Piny 

 Rose " has become the Paeony, 

 incomparable in form, colour and fra- 

 grance. The old-fashioned Larkspur 

 has developed into the stately blooms of 

 .he Delphiniums ; Gaillar- 

 dias, Pyrethrums and the 

 rest, all serve to bring back 

 the charm of the old-world 

 English garden. Special 

 care is taken in packing 

 plants to arrive in America 

 in good order, and they can 

 be relied upon to thrive with 

 a minimum of attention. 



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Pansies the Year Round 



COXTIXUE to plant Dutch bulbs and lilies, 

 and sow pansy seed. The soil for pansies 

 cannot be made too rich; well rotted stable manure 

 is probably the best fertilizer to use. Make the 

 beds about eight inches deep, digging out the soil 

 as you would if you were preparing a hotbed. 

 Spread the manure from two to four inches deep 

 in the bottom of the bed, and cover with fine rich 

 soil four to six inches in depth. Be sure to get 

 the best seed, and either broadcast it thinly or 

 sow it in rows four inches apart. Protect the young 

 plants from heavy rains and hard winds until they 

 are well started. From planting this way I have 

 had flowers almost the entire year. 



Begin to spray and prune the fruit trees. It is 

 also time to commence digging out the borers. 



Asparagus should be more generally grown in 

 the South; it is ready for use at a time when other 

 vegetables are scarce. Plant the roots now. 



Continue to plant onion sets, especially the 

 Bermuda and multiplying sorts. Vetch and 

 crimson clover may be sown in the Lower South. 



Sow oats, wheat and rye. These are very easy 

 crops to grow and a large acreage should be sowed. 



Lawn grass may he sown now in the Lower 

 South. 



Set out strawberry plants during the month. 

 Give them rich soil, the richer the better. 



Sow seed of rape at any time; it makes an ex- 

 cellent green food for either poultry or stock and 

 grows very rapidly, withstanding well the cold 

 weather. 



Georgia. Thomas J. Steed. 



Forcing the Lily-of-the-Valley in 

 Florida 



THE lily-of-the-valley is one of my favorite 

 flowers, yet living so far south, I have never 

 been able to get satisfactory blooms in my garden. 

 Last summer's efforts, however, were very success- 

 ful, and the succession of blooms most satisfying. 

 From pips received on December 5th I had blos- 

 soms on January 7th. A second lot took three 

 days less in which to reach perfection. People 

 from Virginia and other states, where the lily-of- 

 the-valley grows in every garden, told me they had 

 never seen better blooms. Each pot cost less than 

 twenty cents and was a joy for ten days. 



The points to be considered are: First, heat at 

 the roots, while the flowers are kept cool; second, 

 to keep the flower dark, until the buds are well 

 out of the sheath, so as to get a long stem; then, 

 all the light and fresh air possible to give good color 

 to the leaves. 



In the fall of 1911, I ordered one hundred pips 

 from a wholesale florist in the North; adding the 

 express, the total cost was $1.50. The pips came 

 tied in bunches of twenty-five. I buried three 

 bunches to keep them dark and cold, while I 

 experimented with the fourth. I untied the bunch 

 and planted them in two 5-inch pots, twelve in one 

 pot, ten in the other, covering the roots with sand 

 but leaving the pip entirely above it. The pots 

 were sprayed, then put in small pans of water, 

 and placed on the kitchen range, so that the heat of 

 the stove kept the water in the pans quite warm. 

 A brown paper bag was drawn over the top of the 

 pot, so that the hot air from the stove could not 

 parch the plump little pips. Every day, the pots 

 were sprayed, and more water added to the pans 



