Show ln Your 6 PRUNE CLIMBING HONEYSUCKLE Climbing honeysuckles are arc such lovely things that I often wonder wh why they the are not more commonly grown They might easily take the place of the Virginia creeper in inIn inin inin in the neighborhood of Salt Lake where we seem unable to grow that vine any more because of the fly Jy which attacks it Honeysuckles will flourish in cither either sun or shade and will furnish flowers as well as a covering of handsome green deep-green foliage to fence or porch torch But if you do plant honeysuckles or if you have grown them already for several years you should understand understand understand under under- stand that they must be pruned periodically in order to look their best and also in iii order to furnish a good crop of flowers And now is the time to do that pruning I think I am safe in saying that not half of the amateur gardeners in this state prune sufficiently or correctly Many Indeed never prune a single thing unless they make a few feeble passes each spring over the hybrid tea roses Yet very often this withholding of ol the is simply a case of sparing the rod and spoiling the child In pruning we lengthen and re renew renew renew re- re new the life of our plants Old branches are arc taken away from flowering flow flow- crin ering cring shrubs right at the ground to afford space f for r strong new shoots to come And vines call for prunIng pruning prun prun- ing lag also especially honeysuckle Go out now to your climbing honeysuckles and tie the strong main branches firmly to their supports supports supports sup sup- ports if they have not of their own own accord securely wrapped themselves themselves them them- selves around them for the honeysuckle honeysuckle honeysuckle honey honey- suckle is a twining plant Then after the main stems arc are taken care of get the pruning pruning- shears or and cut back tho the side branches to above the first pair of leaves Its It's a n. long and tedious tedious tedious tedi tedi- ous job I admit in an old plant but the results next year will amply repay you During the growing season next year ear give the honeysuckle a bucketful bucket bucket- ful of weak liquid manure occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally and the blooms will come como still stil stillmore stillmore more freely Halls Hall's Japanese honeysuckle honeysuckle honeysuckle honey honey- suckle my favorite has charming white and cream flowers of the most heavenly fragrance There are hone honeysuckles suckles with crimson am and orange flowers not fragrant but bu very showy These latter seem especially espe espe- daily prone to be attacked by plant plan lice and spraying with a solution of Black Leaf 40 must be done a at frequent intervals or the lice will wil suck the plant juices so hungrily that the plant may die die certainly certainly the young new shoots will die I am partial to fall planting a amy as my readers know and the honeysuckles honeysuckles honey honey- suckles Buckles may well be planted now They like a rather gritty soil but bu butwill butwill will grow well in any sort Halls Hall's Japanese honeysuckle thrives wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully won won- well in complete shade QUERIES M M. O. O P. P Salt Lake Cit City writes Is it too late to plant tulip bulbs do you think I have just had a afew afew afew few given to me Ans Better Ans-Better Better late than never Get Ge them in the ground without delay |