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VIOLET CULTURE 
I am the Royal Elk, I came from Paradise. 
I am going to make you very happy and you 
will be delighted with all my little family of 
Violets too. 
First, please let me drink in a pan of water 
for two hours or more. Then at sundown 
tuck me in a fluffy bed of leaf mold, peat, or 
good soil. 
Dig a hole deep enough for my longest 
roots and spread them out like a fan in the 
hole. Gently press the well pulverized soil 
in, leaving my crown even with the level of 
the earth. 
If the soil is not damp, then put water in 
and use plenty of leaf mold on top to keep 
the ground from drying; when you cultivate 
it is worked in and does double duty. A 
handful of bone meal is very good food too. 
For best results, we large violets like our 
tops cut back to about 4 inches from the 
crown—it sends the vitality down to our roots 
and new little leaves will come up quickly. 
Keep the ground damp and I will grow in 
either sun or shade. Most violets like half 
time shade or the northwest exposure. When 
first planted be sure that we are well shaded 
for several days if the sun is hot or if it is 
windy. 
Give me plenty of room to grow and I do 
better if there are more of my kind around 
me. With company, I bloom abundantly and 
cover the ground with my lovely robe. 
Keep the ground cultivated and free from 
pests. 
In the hot summer cover me with leaf mold 
(Oak) and let me rest. 
In September spade deeply around me, cut 
off all old leaves and water well. A little 
bone meal and sulphur spaded in twice a year 
is a treat. 
If you want lots of blooms, keep my run- 
ners picked off. If you want plants, cover the 
runners ‘til they root, then plant them in new 
ground and leaf mold. 
VIOLETS CAN BE MOVED ANY 
TIME and like it, if kept wet, leaves 
cut back and plants shaded. 
Never plant us under pine, acacia or red- 
wood trees. They take all the moisture. 
Barnyard fertilizer makes our leaves grow, 
not flowers. If you let us get crowded, we 
will be small. 
If you do your part they will respond to 
the care you give them. 
The more you pick the better I bloom. 
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Violets grow in every climate. 
Violets grow in deep pots. 
Violets grow in part shade. 
Violets like lots of leaf mold. 
Violets like bone meal spaded in. 
Violets like to be picked often. 
Violets like water when blooming. 
Violets like to rest 3 months and be covered 
with leaves. 
Violets like acid soil. 
Violets do not like to be crowded. 
Violets do not like lots of runners. 
Violets do not like strong fertilizers. 
Violets do not like direct hot sun. 
Violets do not like hard ground. 
Violets do not like small shallow pots. 
Violets do not like to be wet when resting, 
keep ground cultivated, very little water. 
Sprinkle wood ashes around the ground; it 
is good for the plants and discourages bugs 
and snails. 
Most violets will bloom the same season 
they are transplanted. 
Distance to plant small ones — 8 inches 
apart. Large ones—12 to 18 inches. 
Very seldom do violets mix. 
VIOLETS ARE HARDY. All varieties 
listed grow with proper care in any climate. 
In extreme cold they must be covered. Use 
cold frame or straw mulch (also in extreme 
heat, they must be shaded and watered). 
There is nothing in the garden that gives 
you more pleasure, bloom, perfume and plants, 
year after year than the violet. 
All our violets are field grown — strong 
green—and good roots. 
First plant love in your heart—then your 
flowers and friends will grow and blossom to- 
gether into a life worth while. 
In extreme cold places Violets can be taken 
up in bunches or clumps and put in cold 
frames with half loam and leaf mold. 
If your Violets do not bloom it may be 
that they are in a too shady spot or in poor 
soil (alkaline). Use one ‘blesbons fish meal 
to two gallons of water, put around plant 
NOT on it. Water sprinkled on the leaves 
in fog will cause spot. 
