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PETUNIA, Rose 

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CLEOME, Pink Queen : 
MARIGOLD, Flash 
Practical answers fo every-day 
questions about home gardening 
culture. Cold frames, with glass sash the window. Lobelia plants can be 
D. D. T. and Aster rellows and mats for winter protection are lifted just before frost, cut back, 
Though wilt resistant asters solved essential. Soil should be rich: up to potted and will flower indoors in late 
the wilt problem, Aster Yellows are one-third of soil can be well-rotted winter. 
still a menace. Now, with D.D.T., we manure or sifted compost. Sow seed 
can keep off the leaf hopper, the in- in August. Protect frame with shades 
sect that carries the virus of Yellows made by tacking muslin or cheese Pinching Back 
to the Aster plant. Regular spraying cloth over window screens. Thin 
or dusting with D.D.T. will leave a plants to stand 4” x 4”. After first If sturdy, stocky plants are wanted, 
residue which will kill the leaf hop- _ frosts, cover with glass and mats, and —.tney will need ‘pinching back.” When 
per when it lights on the plant and allow to freeze slowly. Remove mats five or six pairs of leaves have formed, 
before it can stab the leaves and pass in early spring and allow sun to warm pinch out the top, leaving two or three 
on the virus. So if your Asters have frame. Move plants into permanent pairs of leaves on the stem. New 
peen disappointing lately, try again, position when in full ploom. Keep stioots pill SCOm where the leaves 
using D.D.T. faded flowers picked: they will stop join the stem. Sometimes a second 
pinch can be made, when these new 
shoots in turn have formed four or 
five pairs of leaves, leaving two pairs 
on each. Pinching increases the num- 
ber of flowers, though sometimes it 
blooming if any seeds are allowed to 
L FI d i form. Growing good Pansies from 
arge Flowere¢ an seed is the test of a real gardener. 
Double Petunias 
These should never be direct seeded A decreases their size. Petunias par- 
outdoors, but must be started indoors. Removing Flowers ticularly need pinching back if they 
Use a flat filled with seed-starting are to remain short. Towards the end 
The gardener can lengthen the bloom- 
ing season of all annuals and some 
perennials by removing old flowers 
as soon as they fade, and preventing 
the plant from going to seed. Del- 
phiniums and Canterbury Bells will 
of the flowering season, after Petunias 
have grown long and lanky, they can 
be cut back to within an inch or two 
of the ground and they will throw 
out new growth. If given a light 
mixture. Press soil with a brick or 
flat piece of wood to firm it. Wet 
thoroughly. Then broadcast the seed 
on the surface of the soil. Cover en- 
i i ne of glass and then 
Nada ae Aine ae Set in a ; feeding of mixed fertilizer, these re- 
pee P ‘P ° : usually respond to this treatment by juvenated plants will often bloom as 
warm, dark place at 75° to 85° until producing a second crop of flowers in well as you ient eanhih 
seed germinates. Then move to a fall. younger plants early in e 
sunny window. If flat dries out slight- season. 
ly before seed sprouts, water carefully 
with an atomizer. Transplant seed- 
lings when second pair of leaves Two Interesting House Plants Flowers in the Vegetable Garden 
forms. Move into the garden after : 
danger from frost is past. The Heavenly Blue Morning Glory To have plenty of cut flowers without 
makes an excellent house plant for disturbing your flower borders, plant 
winter flowering if grown in a sunny a few rows of flowers along the edge 
Formula for Pansy Growing window. Start new plants in late of your vegetable garden. Or set them 
August, using 6” pots (they make out between rows of early lettuce or 
Pansies are not annuals but near- heavy root growth). They can be radishes, where they can bloom after 
hardy perennials that need special trained up strings on either side of the vegetables have been used. 
