GARDEM NOTES 



O NOT fail to see that all faded flower sprays on your 

 hybrid lilacs and other lilacs are cut off before going 

 to seed. 



Cut away all suckers springing from the base of 

 the bush lilacs. 



Lime the surface soil more liberally where lilacs are planted 

 than where other shrubs are planted. 



Increase Bleeding Hearts by cutting them in half straight down 

 through the center of the roots. 



Divide roots of late Hardy Pompon Chrysanthemums to In- 

 crease your planting of these flowers. 



Make several plants from one spreading edging plant of Cam- 

 panula carpatica CHarebells^ by dividing the clump. 



Cut up the tap roots of Anchusa Italica into inch pieces; each 

 inch piece will produce a splendidly sturdy plant. 



Thin out the Forget-me-nots and plant the roots taken out 

 for a note of blue, but let it be where it is not dry or hot. 



Physostegia will be all the better for thinning out. Plant the 

 pieces left by the thinning process on the outer edges of your 

 Physostegia massing, increasing its size and beauty. 



Treat the Michaelmas Daisies just as advised for Physostegia. 



Transplant blooming and seeding Portulaca plants, giving them 

 the sunniest place in the garden, on rocks at the base of trees, 

 etc., where the seed will blow and lodge for next Summer's flowers. 



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