Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-29 | Page 5 | [Untitled]

Timely Chat With the Gardener SiEED-SAVING is one of the most fascinating fasci-nating of the gardener's occupations, Pjgp ? hut if many blohsqms nre left to seed jaffaa they lessen the plant's vitality and . shorten its period of bloom. . " Plants in raised beds, mounds, baskets, vases nnd window boxes need twice ns much wnter in midsummer ns plnnts grown clurwlicrc. Soak them thoroughly every evening in dry weather. At this dry senson of the year your (lulilins will thank you for plenty of water, nnd they will be grateful for an occnsionnl nil-over bulb. Drought is apt lo lessen the perfection of their flowers. The lawn cun be kept in much finer condition if the grass is cut so often that it will not lcquirc, raking. The clippings will serve a a mulch to protect the loots from the hot sun nnd di ought. Plant a few choice petunia seed this month niid have some blooming plants for your early winter garden. A few petunias will keep n window in an ordinary room ablaze with beauty nil winter. A good many plnnts nre better and stronger this dry weather if they are given a little mulch, which will help to retain the moisture that results from watering. Mulch your sweet pons and lilies. Perennial Bcedlings may be started during duly and August for next year's blooming, and thoy will do quite ns well, nnd many varieties even better, bet-ter, than when started into growth earlv in the fipririg with the annuals. It is time to start, slips for fall lifting, Put a few in the ground near the old plant and in ite shndo. Keep the family together nnd thev get strong by association, nnd bloom better in the fall and winter than those struck Inter. If the crysanlbcmums nre troubled with small black ants or other insects try sprinkling then! with tobacco ten or tobacco dust ns for the aphis on other plants, nnd the insects may thus be dc-stroved dc-stroved before the flowers bloom. If the old! pansy plants nre cut bnck, almost to (he roots about the middle of August, when the hot dry season is over, the plant send up the growth which bears fine large Mowers until cold weather comes, if the soil has been enriched The pansy bed that has been supplying quantities quan-tities of the velvety beauties throughout the spring and early summer should have all fadintr flowers picked off, nnd a liberal top-dressing or manure. It will boon show renewed vigor and beauty. Do not delny longer in regard to geranium cut-tings cut-tings for winter. They ought to have been taken before this if one wants flowers before Christ-mas, Christ-mas, but cutting taken now will mnko line young plants for blooming later in the winter.