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° Plant in groups about 4 
Hazelnut, American to 5 feet apart, and 2 or 
3 inches deeper than they were in the nursery. 
Plant in spring. It makes a large 
Healthberry bush and must be set 12 feet apart 
each way to keep the plants from growing together. 
Plant 5 or 6 inches deep. When the fruit commences 
to ripen, you can cut off a lot of the new growth to 
make picking of the fruit easier. Do not cut these 
new canes clear down to the ground, but merely that 
_ part which sticks above the fruit so you can get in 
to the fruit more easily. After the fruit is all picked, 
cut off the old canes down to the ground, leaving only 
the new canes that have grown that summer. 
Plant in spring about 3 feet 
Hydrangea, Blue apart. They prefer a moder- 
ately rich, acid soil. When planting, mix the soil with 
acid Peat Moss, almost half and half. In cold sections 
give the same winter protection as you do Everbloom- 
ing Roses. In the spring cut back to live wood just 
like Roses. To deepen the blue color, water twice a 
month during the growing season with one tablespoon 
of Aluminum Sulphate in one gallon of water. 
Iris Iris should be planted shallow, in a well-drained 
: location with the rhizomes just barely covered 
with dirt and ‘the roots extending down into the 
ground like fingers, as shown in the illustration. 
Give Iris a good mulch the first winter to prevent 
heaving. In spring, remove dead tops. 
Heavy, wet soil, over watering, wet seasons, old 
crowded plants, and possibly the presence of borers, 
all tend to create conditions favorable to the develop- 
ment of root rot. If the 
rot has not made much 
headway, it may be cut out 
without taking up the roots. 
Ordinarily, however, it is 
better to take them up and 
replant. 


TOP OF SOIL 
Throw away those which 
are rotted or soft. Sprin- 
kle Cuprocide or Sulphur 
Dust on the _ remaining 
rhizomes. 
Lil Plant them 4 inches deeper than they were 
lacs in the nursery and place them 4 to 6 feet 
apart. Lilacs planted in the fall generally bloom fol- 
lowing spring. If you plant in the spring, plant as 
early as possible. Lilacs like a sweet soil and re- 
spond to applications of lime, using 4 quarts of lime 
to a large bush each year. When planting lilacs do 
not trim the tops any. After the lilacs have bloomed, 
cutting off the old blooms will throw more vigor into 
the new growth. (Cut off just the bloom itself and 
not the entire blooming branch.) 
Lili Lilies must be planted in well drained soil. 
ULES Then they are sure to grow, come up every 
spring, bloom every year. Put two inches of sand un- 
der the bulbs when planting them. The bulbs will 
rot in poorly drained, soggy soil. 
Madonna Lilies must be planted in the fall. The 
other Lilies can be planted either fall or spring. 
In the case of fall planting, Lilies should have a 
light mulch put on them after the ground freezes so 
as to prevent alternate freezing and thawing. 
Practically all Lilies thrive in sun or partial shade. 
They like to have cool roots, therefore if you can, 
plant some low-growing perennials or annuals among 
them so as to shade the roots. Otherwise, use a 
mulch of peat moss. 
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