Show I Pd j ir AM GARDEN GIRL SHOWS HOW TO TRA TRAI TELEGRAM TEL l II I I'S S J- J s SaK r t AN r R ROOTS 1 S J- J l II I I'S SaK t s r 4 t i i t m I v i S ie a. a w. w s. s rr f I 1 I. The Telegram Garden Girl decides that her peonies havo have been in ono one place long enough and should be moved She digs a root roof carefully getting down at least one foot because because because be be- cause these roots roofs go deep in the earth and she does not want walt to break or injure inure them fAi 2 She carries the large mass of ol roots roofs and earth to the water supply where with the hose she may wash off all surplus earth After the roots roofs are clean dean she can clearly dearly see where to divide them She also cuts away the surplus foliage which hnot is h not required by the ro roots roofs u g v 3 The Telegram Garden Girl knows that without an eye or small reddish bud at the top of the roots roofs no piece of peony root will grow She is s aware of the fact that a division with at least three of these eyes gives best results so she cuts her mass of roots roofs accordingly 4 f October Offers Final Chance To Move Divide P Perennials re als By MAUD Telegram Garden Editor Realizing ng that October is the last call for th those se amateur gardeners gardeners gardeners gar gar- who wish to move peony roots The Telegram hereby shows you every step in taking up dividing and replanting these fine perennials without which no garden can be really complete I Often peonies have been planted incorrectly in the first place and if so they should be moved by all means Again they may have been in one position such a long longtime time that they cease to bloom and this is the time for the gardener to tomake tomake tomake make sure of having blooms in future If you are rearranging your herbaceous borders and find that the peonies would give better effects in other places s attend to it at once Spring is never the time timeto timeto timeto to move peonies There are several reasons for forthe forthe forthe the of a peony root but the most frequent one is too deep planting No more than a couple of inches of earth should be above the eyes which are the little reddish swollen buds at the base of the old stems on top of ot the thick roots from which the leaves of next year will develop Other reasons for no flowers developing developing developing de de- de- de may may be that the roots do doI I I not get enough sun that they are planted near trees or shrubs which take all nourishment from the soil that they suffer for water in summer summer summer sum sum- mer when these buds are formed below ground or that the soil has become impoverished In taking up and dividing the roots as shown step by step in our illustrations be sure that the soil in the new places is well and deeply dug finely pulverized and enriched with bone meal or well decayed stable manure Never use fresh barnyard fertilizer Bone meal perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps gives finest results of all A newly planted peony will seldom seldom seldom sel sel- sel- sel dom bloom the first year following planting Even if a flower should form the wise gardener will snip it off so as to allow all strength to go goto goto goto to the formation of roots Peonies once planted should be undisturbed for many years unless they show II as we have pave pointed out that they were wrongly planted I ff 44 4 From her one old peony root roof the Telegram Garden Girl gets four fine new divisions each with from three to five eyes In replanting she knows that these eyes should be placed no deeper than two inches below ground otherwise her roots roofs r may never flower She waters well after planting j |