not cut them in the tight bud stage. They will open beautifully if 

 cut only when partially blown. 



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Q. "J.P." You spoke of a delphinium screen in the "First Talk" 

 at the Colony Club last March. The idea appeals to me very much. 

 Will you give the names of the varieties for a low screen, etc.? 



A. Delphininium Belladonna Grandiflora is the variety of del- 

 phinium for your screen, because of the extreme beauty and con- 

 tinuous blooming habit of grandiflora. The effect will be as a cloud 

 of blue from early Summer until killing frost. Space your plants 

 one foot apart each way and have at least two or three rows of 

 plants. Keep faded blooms cut, removing the flower stalk with them 

 also, to within a foot of the base. After each cutting down of the 

 faded flower and stalks, rose food should be thoroughly worked 

 into the surface of the soil around the plants, taking care not to 

 injure the roots which are very near the surface. This feeding will 

 positively insure more blooms and fine blooms. It rests with you 

 whether you have these enchantingly lovely flowers all through the 

 Summer and Autumn. If you save the seed of just one flower spike, this 

 one flower spike will produce enough seed to increase your stock of this 



variety of delphinium a hundred-fold, besides it comes true to name. 



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Q. "V.S.P." In a newly planted rose garden of nearly a thousand 

 plants, should one not allow even a single bloom to mature until 

 September? 



A. To permit no blooms at all of newly planted stock is the theo- 

 retical method, but I have planned several rose gardens where a bloom 

 or two was permitted on each plant without any appreciable lack of 

 late blooms, even compared with the established roses, and in the 

 second year the blooms were as abundant and lovely in size and 



substance, as those in older rose garhens. 



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Q. "J.F.S." Last Spring I planted ten heavy plants of the Silver 

 Moon rose. They grew amazingly and produced long, strong canes, 

 but no blooms. The foliage was very beautiful and nothing disfigured 

 it. Why did the plants not bloom, etc., etc.? 



A. Your Silver Moon roses will bloom this Spring. Had you 

 planted them in the Fall they would have bloomed the next Spring, 



but not when Spring planted will they bloom the same Spring. 



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All other "QUESTIONS" are fully answered "IN THE ROSE 

 GARDEN." 



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