Show I f. lIn n Your Tour C A R D F Lad 7 A Y VARIETY OF TASKS Besides the weeding and cultivation cultivation tion which must go on in the garden constantly there are routine tasks which need attending to yearly eachin eachin each eachin in its certain cerbin season I have already told you that the amateur gardener lives with the or I in m his hand all the time and there then are jobs waiting at this very moment for these tools II If you ou have had hyacinths or daffodils daffodils daffo daUo dils in your garden the chances arc that they are now fading depending of ot course on the varieties and on or whether your garden is protected or 01 exposed In my own garden most of ot the daffodils are arc gone although two varieties as well as the poets poet's narcissus are at their best best Go on with your trusty shears and snip off of every faded head from these flowers towers Never let them then goto go gc goto to seed It takes take's strength from the bulb and hence henc from next years year's ears flower to allow seed to form and ripen However if it you are arc an adventurous adventurous ad ad- venturous gardener and one who loves to experiment you might per per- permit permit mit mil one daffodil or one hyacinth to tc remain and perfect its seed pod and then plant these seeds in a specially prepared and marked seed bed The experience of finally obtaining blooming bloom bloom- ing lag sized bulbs from seeds Is a remarkable remarkable remarkable re re- re- re one one and there is also a l possibility that you get a new variety when the bulb blooms Peonies arc are by now almost all in bud in fact the earliest to flower either cither or the old has sized large buds which are almost almost almost al al- al- al most ready to break into color But the other peonies generally will have buds about the size of your finger end Also they will have a group of buds at the end of ot every stem and andin andin andin in order to obtain the largest flowers you will need to snip away every bud except the terminal one Provide means whereby the climbIng climb climb- climbIng Ing vines may climb as soon as they start into growth Clematis trumpet vine silver lace vine wisteria all these need supports of either cither wire or string or a permanent lattice as soon as they send out their first cx ex exploratory tendrils If It you ou have grown annual vines in years past many of oC them will have halle appeared by now in the form torm of ot volunteer volunteer vol vol- seedlings s. s The Japanese morning glories and the wild cucumber ber bet are alwa always s 's very prolific Before the little plants have made too much growth crowth lift litt them with the trowel and transfer them to fences walls old I stumps or trees or anywhere that their charm will wilt be useful as well welI as beautiful Also before it gets gels too late divide the perennials which require it It may maybe be that already some of these have grown too tall taU to perform the operation with impunity and in that event you are forced to wait until next fall faIt or spring But with many of ot them the tardy gardener still stilt has hasa a chance to give them the attention they crave The Thc present cool weather has proved a blessing to the gardener garden garden- er who has been late In getting eUins to these tasks but delay no longer or you will have to wait with your plans still stilt incomplete until the season season sea sea- son is again safe for transplanting Keep fertilizers at hand Bone meal mealand mealand mealand and ammonium s sulphate or oj a chemical chemi chemical cal fertilizer containing in correct proportion all of or the elements clements plants need should be where you can use them whenever a a plant needs a little littie little lit lit- tle tie stimulation QUERIES R. R H. H Murray writes For several sev sty eral cral years now a peony peon that I have has bas made buds but they seem to shrivel up and dry out before they the bloom It used to bloom It Is Isan Isan isan an old plant Do you think it Is too old to bloom as my neighbor says We enjoy your our articles so much and are arc fixing up our oar place to de de- de- de grees Ans Sin Since ce your peony used to bloom there must not now be enough nourishment available for it to flow tIow- er en You might help by giving it bone meal However if it it is an old root the best plan will be to dig It up and divide it replanting the new divisions divisions divisions divi divi- in good rich soil But the proper time to dig peonies is not now wait wait until September I am glad you profit by th these e article |