SUCKER- ROOTS 



Q. Will you think me a poor gardener if I tell you I find it 

 very difficult to tell suckers from roots? 



A. No, I don't think you a poor gardener for not being 

 able to tell one from the other. I know many good amateurs 

 who cannot, but you will find an easy way to di^inguish 

 suckers is to note, that they get thicker the farther they grow 

 from the plant or roots. 



Q. Will you tell me what proportions of sulphate of pot- 

 ash and bone meal to use for sweet peas? 

 A. About an ounce and one half of sulphate of potash 

 and four ounces of bone meal would be sufficient for each 



square yard. 



LiLA 



Q. My lilacs have not thrived the la^ two or three years. 

 What should I have done to improve their condition? 

 A. Perhaps your lilacs have not received proper attention. 

 It is too much to expecft lilacs that are given indifferent care 

 to ever become great, beautiful specimens. I have seen — and 

 this is true of all shrubs and trees — that bushes planted in 

 holes that are shallow, narrow and wood or grass grown, will 

 never be splendid specimens. How can they be? Look over 

 your lilacs, observe if they are bushy, low-foliaged and broad- 

 tipped. Order a six inch mulch of old manure dug in all around 

 them this Autumn, with a liberal sprinkling of coarsely 

 ground bone. If the soil is hard and dry have it "picked", 

 loosened and made good with old manure, and do not fail to 

 have all suckers removed. In the Spring give them a heavy 

 powdering of lime and have it " worked " in. Don't fail to 

 also " work " in a manure mulch, to provide humus. Should 

 any old seed panicles remain have them removed at once. 



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