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Show TWjpsrs arvd Their Care and . To Have Beautiful Roses Like This, Care Must Be Taken of Them in Fall. LATE SUMMER WORK NOTES By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN. Watch the tender greenhouse plants that are in the open and take them up before the last days of summer have passed. Have the pots ready for the bulbs which must be taken up soon. Insects will now begin to attack the scarlet runner and other flowers of that nature and they must be watched carefully. Tlie dahlias, gladioli and other rank-growing rank-growing plants are likely to be blown down by the wind and should be staked. Lmless chrysanthemums are shaded during the hot month of August they will be injured by the sun. Drench the ground around the tea roses, but do not spray the bushes. Roses of all kinds should be thoroughly thor-oughly 'manured with well-rotted cow manure and mulched with lawn cuttings cut-tings and leaves. Liquid manure should be applied only when the ground is moist enough to: absorb it. It is fatal to some plants to fertilize them with rich manures when the ground is very dry. Never allow roses to remain on the bush when the petals begin to fall. All plants that are Intended for winter win-ter bloomers should have the buds pinched off now. Pick pansies and nasturtiums every day if you want to have plenty of blooms. When the lilacs have finished blooming, bloom-ing, all the seed clusters should be cut away. If the seed is allowed to develop on the lilac it generally has few flowers in every other year. The best way to kill weeds now Is to pull them up by hand. The redbug and other enemies of the rose, if not killed off last month should be effectually removed now. An excellent ex-cellent spray for rose bushes is made of one-half pound of laundry soap melted in hot water to which is added one cupful of kerosene. When this comes to a boll, -use about one part to fifteen parts of water. Scrape up road dust and apply about the roots of your plants during the hot weather and keep the moisture in the soli. Lawn clippings make an excellent excel-lent mulch for the larger plants and shrubs. Save the grass clippings from the lawn to serve as a mulch for the bed of tea roses, These plants like to have the soil about their roots cool and moist. Spread the grass over the bed to a depth ot two or three inches. When it withers, work it into the soil to act as n fertilizer as it decays and apply fresh clippings. Cuttings from the geranium may be made all through August in most climates. cli-mates. In a dry season don't mow the lawn as often as in a showery one. Regulate Regu-late the frequency of your mowing by the appearance of the grass. Aim to keep it looking green and velvety. Early in August is a good time to sow ! mignonette for the window garden. Sow in pots or boxes and water frequently, fre-quently, but not too often. MONEY IN COTTAGE GARDENS By LIMA R. ROSE. When I lived in the country we used to send scores of nosegays to market, priced from five to ten cents. We could not supply them fast enough, and if people cared to grow common flowers or pot plants and sell them outside a railway station, for instanc-they instanc-they could do well with them now. Make your own leaf mold. When sod is removed from the ground for any purpose, shake out the fine soil that adheres to it for future use, or slice off the fine roots with a sharp knife just below the crown of the grass. This is known as fibrous loam and in combination with leaf mold, old manure and fine sharp sand makes the very best potting soil. Throw the top of the sods in a heap in some out-of-the-way corner, and add the rakings of the yard in fall and spring, all weeds pulled during the summer, all refuse of vegetables, pota to parings, apple peelings, corn husk, and berry hulls, anything that is vegetable vege-table matter und will decay. All dishwater and slops that are not needed on the garden should be thrown on the pile, which should be turned occasionally oc-casionally during the winter. By the following spring you will have the finest kind of a leaf mold. Not all the pile will have decayed, but along the edges and underneath it will be found ready for use. Add to it every bit of available vegetable veg-etable matter during the year, including includ-ing the annual flowers pulled up after their season of bloom. Add tops ol such root plants as cannas, caladlums, gladioli, and you will soon have a supply sup-ply quite adequate to the needs of th ordinary garden. Where there are waterworks the hose may be turned on frequently to hasten composition. If it is Impossible to replace all poor soil in the garden with better, by the addition of leaf mold and manure much may be accomplished in the waj of building up and rendering it suitable. suit-able. ' USE FOR HOUSE SLOPS Any house slops that are free from grease or acids may be poured around the roots of plants to their advantage, pushing aside .the mulch for this purpose pur-pose and replacing when done. Water the ground liberally, always watering In the evening. Or, have a rubbish corner In which to dump everything every-thing that will make plant food, and pour the house slops all kinds on it, forking it over occasionally, and letting let-ting it decay. Add to the heap any sward from the roadside, peelings and parings from the kitchen. The Rustic Furniture Around This Home Would Have Added Beauty if the House Had a Few Vines and the Trees Were Cared For A Fine Example Ex-ample ot How Not to Have the Home Look. |