Hints on Culture 
Harvey, N. D. From Mr. A. C. Brushwiller. 
Your strain is all one could wish for as to adaptability in this 
climate and that is saying a lot. As to color you have some 
unusual and exciting hues and combinations. 
As I am forever experimenting I stumbled onto a quirk that 
was no doubt in a large measure attributable to my success 
this season. Last year 1 mulched a small plot of seedlings with 
lawn clippings. I noticed this year that they were much larger 
and in better shape than some of the same planting not so 
treated. Lawn clippings were not at hand this summer so | 
conceived the idea of having a farmer run straw through a 
hammer mill (course screen) and I mulched all my seedling 
beds from a half to three-quarter inches deep. Due to the nature 
of the straw so treated, it did not wash away or blow. On July 
17th after a good rain, | mulched the beds. Weeks atter during 
a dry spell the ground uncovered was dry down four or five 
inches, but that area which had been mulched the soil was 
pleasantly moist. Roots did not come to the surface but grew 
in proper depths. As to weeds the only one that was able to 
show through the mulch was purslane or pig weed. I am a 
merchant but have for a hobby the growing of Delphiniums. 
The beds of plants are so laid out as to detect any differences 
in the strains with which I am working. 
Lithonia, Georgia: “I should like very much to have more 
people in the south learn to love and grow Delphiniums, and, 
contrary to the general opinion, my year and a half of experi- 
menting with them has convinced me that they can be grown 
very successfully in the south if protected from the hot afternoon 
suns, and covered with pine boughs or other light mulch during 
winter to prevent sprouting during warm spells. They also like 
more water than I gave mine in the north. And going-to-seed 
will almost surely kill them.” 
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