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PETUNIA, Rose Marie 

CLEOME, Pink Queen 

MARIGOLD, Flash 
Practical answers to every-day 
questions about home gardening 
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culture. Cold frames, with glass sash the window. Lobelia plants can be 
D. D. T. and Aster Yellows 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 they 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 
been disappointing lately, try again, position when in full bloom. Keep shoots will come where the leaves 
using D.D.T. faded flowers picked: they will stop join. the stem. Sometimes a second 
é : pinch can be made, when these new 
nee poteome ea tite eae shoots in turn have formed four or 
five pairs of leaves, leaving two pairs 
seed is the test of a real gardener. on each. Pinching increases the num- 
ber of flowers, though sometimes it 
These should never be direct seeded decreases their size. Petunias par” 
Large Flowered and 
Double Petunias 
outdoors, but must be started indoors. Removing Flowers Sart Sa pe ee alta 
Use a fiat filled with seed-starting oh ; A ; ; 
mixture. Press soil with a beickibr The gardener can lengthen the bloom of the flowering season, after Petunias 
f ‘ ing season of all annuals and some have grown long and lanky, they can 
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on the surface of the soil. Cover en- pe TL ages Sia ae Set a of the ground and they will thro 
tire flat with a pane of glass and then the” plant Poe eae Me a a out new growth. If given a light 
with a sheet of newspaper. Set-in a phiniums and Be ae fy s Pe feeding of mixed fertilizer, these re- 
Warm, dark place at 75° to 85° until usually respond to this trea ment by juvenated plants will often bloom as 
seed germinates. Then move to a tere a’second crop'of flowers i well as younger plants early in the 
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 
Fermula 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 eitner side of the vegetables have been used. 
