VIOLAS 
MAGGIE MOTT 
VIOLAS. One of the loveliest perennials. Easily grown, requiring little care, 
unregardfiil of frequent moving, blooming joyously and exuberantly from six to 
eight months of the year, these are among the loveliest flowers that can be grown 
in your gardens. 
Violas are ])erfectly adapted for ground covers around lilies or any other tall 
perennial that has little foliage near the ground. 
They are lovely in beds by themselves, in masses of one color; and in the 
hardy border, in front of the taller growing plants. They make a mass of one 
color that is a joy and a relief that one can have an ever-blooming flower that is 
so little trouble. 
The.y make the most beautiful edgings along ]:)aths and around beds. During 
the season, T can look out of my window and see the wide ribbon of violet purple 
that my Jersey Jewel makes around my beds of Japanese Iris. Not the least of 
^ny joy is that it will be there until the heavy frost of fall. I have only to water 
tlnnn occasionally, i)ick them now and then, and enjoy them. Put on a two inch 
mulch of peat moss in July to kee]) the roots cool and moist during the hot 
season and to protect them during the winter. The old growth should be cut back 
at the end of the first blooming season, usually in July, giving the new growth 
at the center a chance. It is the new growth Avhich continues the bloom. They 
like a deep rich soil, bone meal, sheep guano, leaf mold, rotted cow manure, or 
any good fertilizer that is not too strong. Thev like sun but need a mulch to 
kee|) them from drying out too fast. Light shade is very satisfactory and some 
growers always I'ecommend it. 
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