OCR Text |
Show If Park Board Gives VaJuabUe Hints Hi .. to Sals Lake's Amateur Gardeners I The following bulletin has boon issued is-sued by the Board of Park Commission-ors Commission-ors for the month of July: In regard to the parking of stroots in the parking' district. It must bv snld .tlinl with few exceptions the residents liavo fairly well complied, by making lawns and catting out dead and unsightly trees, Several lawns are not up the standard, stand-ard, of good lawns, hy not using good soil or fertilizer or seed 'and Jy not having competent persona to do tho work. The superintendent, has been busy running after those who were making poor work , .of It and his service arf always to bo had by anyone- desiring advice and prac- tlcal Instruction!. Whoever has noticed tho now lawns made around tho city build - lng grounds will uortalnly not question his ability. II pays to have any work done well and for the saving of a few I dollars one cannot afford to have work The care of trees and shrubs during the summer season consists mainly of keep- lng thorn well watered and cultivated where possible. "We notice a groat number num-ber of trees and rose bushes Infested with the green fly or aphis. To every possessor pos-sessor of trees, etc.. we advise the purchase pur-chase of a hand spray, even on atomizer. ' at 75 cents apiece, will be handy to show-or show-or or spray every Infested part with a atrong soapsuds and tobacco spray, or for mlldow on roses, with powders of sulphur, sul-phur, or arsenic of load for slugs or hellebore helle-bore for worms, etc., etc. Besides having one of these spray pumps, you will be onahlod to clean and shower your houso plants, In fact. It Is an Indispensable Implement Im-plement In gardening. Now about roses, something valuable. Several varieties are called everbloomlng or rcmontants. as Gen. Jack. Paul Noy-ron, Noy-ron, JLalng. Van Houtte, Bruunor. etc., but disappointment follows when wo should expect those roses to bloom all during the season. Really they arc re-jicatlng re-jicatlng roses and not perpetual. This means that under certain conditions they will yield two crops; one in Juno and. after treatment, another during August or later. To acquire this, trim all tho yearly and other older shoots after tho first crop of roses, that Is, the end of Juno or a little later. Give a rest to the bush by very little watering for about two weeks. Then water, and above all fertilize. With proper cultivation of the "noli your work will bo rewarded with a nice crop of good roses In the fall, all that can bo expected of those so-called ever-blooming rosea. To have pleasure of (lowers of a general gen-eral variety during the season, a few points should bo taken notleo of. First, to pick especially sweet peas, pansles. nasturtiums as nuicji as possible the flowers flow-ers to prevent the development of seeds, which would stop the blooming to a great I I extent. Furthermore, the cultivation of the soil might be considered as Important nn the regular watering of tho soli to prevent the soil from getting crusty and cracky, which la very detrimental to vegetation. veg-etation. Now Is tho time to decide on tho varieties varie-ties of shade trees to he planted next season, sea-son, .for now yon can seo each varletv In its Individual beauty, and you will soon j perceive how box elders aro Infested with green aphis, and elm trees except the I corlt barked elm, aro covered with scale Insects, and how beautiful and free of disease and Insccta some varieties aro as the ash. Norway maple, silver maple, linden, lin-den, Carolina poplar and sycamore, etc. The board further would like to seo roaldents take care of the border along the sidewalks by cutting down tho weeds occasionally. |