September, 1907 



AMERI 



CAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XV 



still be magnificently effective when early win- 

 ter shuts down upon the garden. 



Strong Carnations for winter use are best 

 obtained from what are known as field-grown 

 plants, in fall. These are plants which are 

 grown in the open ground during summer. 

 They make a strong, vigorous growth then, 

 and have been pinched back until they have a 

 good many short branches starting from the 

 base of the plant. All our leading florists can 

 furnish them. Order them in September. 

 Pot them in a rather heavy loam. Do not use 

 large pots. Keep them out of doors as long as 

 you can do so safely. When they are brought 

 indoors give them a place in a room that is 

 without fire-heat, if possible. But let it be 

 light, and sunny. Shower frequently to pre- 

 vent injury by the red spider. Water mod- 

 erately. 



* * * 



In the gardens of many amateur florists will 

 be found strong, sturdy specimens of the Mar- 

 guerite strain of carnation. These are grown 

 from seed sown in spring. They do not come 

 into bloom until rather late in the season, as 

 a general thing. Indeed, many of the plants 

 will be full of buds not quite ready to open 

 when cold weather comes. But some of the 

 plants will have bloomed before that, and if 

 any of them show double flowers, of good 

 color, they may be put into pots for house- 

 use for the coming winter. They will bloom 

 much more profusely than the ordinary green- 

 house sorts, but their flowers will not be so 

 large, and some of them will be altogether 

 lacking in fragrance. Their range of color is 

 limited, as compared with that of the green- 

 house varieties, but among a score or more 

 of seedlings you can almost always find some 

 good pinks, and whites, and pale yellows. 



THE PANSY BED 



By Benjamin Ide 



THE pansy is a plant that responds mag- 

 nificently to any intelligent treatment, 

 and its requirements are neither exact- 

 ing nor expensive. Given good seed one is well 

 on the way to notable results, and it remains 

 only for the gardener to co-operate with nature 

 to be richly rewarded. It is, however, useless 

 to expect fine pansies from cheap or common 

 seed. Good pansy seed can only be raised by 

 scientific methods. It is out of the question 

 to save seed of any special strain or color from 

 beds of mixed flowers, and this in a large 

 measure accounts for the seeming high price of 

 the best florist's strain of seed. One should 

 look with suspicion on cheap packets of seed 

 or seed offered for premiums. Good pansy 

 seed of the purest and finest strains can not 

 be purchased for less than twenty-five cents a 

 packet, and certain strains are well worth the 

 fifty cents asked. These high-priced strains 

 will not give many, if any, of the common 

 self-colored pansies, as yellow, white, purple 

 or black, but will be made up of the finest 

 blotched, ruffled and rayed varieties and the 

 various reds, pinks, coppers, bronze and all 

 that is newest and best in the pansy world. 



The best time for sowing pansy seed is in 

 August, about the fifteenth of the month, and 

 from then on through September. The seed 

 should be sown in a cold frame or spent hot- 

 bed, and where the latter is used it will be 

 necessary to add sufl'icient earth to replace the 

 bulk lost by the settling of the manure under- 

 neath. This should be added sufficiently to 

 bring the soil in the bed somewhat higher 

 than that of the land outside, and good drain- 

 age should exist, either from the lay of the 



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