| Show 0 o lie arul r are an atrom ON pi new ft 4 it work i best A apo a A wonderful poppy field YOUR catalogues E VAN benthuysen ur r catalogues early and study lake ake your selections and or kemu this assures the goods on a better election selection re to uati a mixed packet 0 ieng ng us for that corre e the eun sun scorches everything bey e y are beautiful in coloring dil subject to only one real in I 1 the cabbage worm and it s to bel hellebore lebora or soapsuds to nia poppy Is another sun aielo loe it L its gay gar foliage ba blinds ands at y with its golden leaves its U it eback ie Is ita its abort short life a carlet salvia haa has no pier pter in at tt it la to a brilliant brill tant plant and be e started early in the house va requires an early start also cult to get thie this plant started nough bough to bloom much before ut the buds will continue to water for weeks t the chrysanthemum effects ht asters their branching and 1 plume es elf ct are sure to please Is a world of color to select ind nd they are hardy and beautt 04 simple culture of panels panales makes id 1 delight in the garden farden include et of these beautiful little now flow diverse colors in your order pt t sweet peas as soon as an the 24 d can be worked in the spring F ranting lanting brings failure the more lowers are plucked the better agger ager they grow the colors arn ful and range from purest white I 1 ed tl that Is almost black one of S specimens belong to the colored family be e ie to room in your garden for I 1 bachelor lach elor button it la Is highly red as an a boutonniere in the big and brings P surprising price ke a your plant now and reap the ous us result in midsummer FROM SEED by ADELE J POWELL A spring I 1 purchased a package largo flowering california gorma germa and planted them thein lj la a po pol T it t the middle of march I 1 kept soil moist and placed the pot in jinny anny window where in eight days first tiny plant wade made its appear e and from then until some time JULI 3 the seeds kept germinating 1 thin the last one was about an la in height the others were sprouting routing Bp their fourth and fifth leaves there wore were 18 altogether As each little grow itt second leaf I 1 transplanted it carefully into a two inch pot and when 13 12 of thorn them were growing nicely in ta may I 1 again transplanted all the ales bright looking bailee bables to a tub ol 01 candy sandy eoll soil and put it out on the west larn here they grew fast for the gerant um loves the hot sun in july I 1 snipped off their tope tops to make them branch out ajr the first of septem her ber this tubful of geranium geraniums were fine stocky plants from six to nine inches high about thia time I 1 planted another packet of geranium seeds they ire lre in fine condition and growing nicely I 1 expect the plants first from the seeds to give me flowe flowes s this summer they are now la three inch pots and I 1 am quite anxious to fee see their blossoms blose oms I 1 shall keep none but the very best beat colora and best formed flouti those planted lut september will probably blossom next winter for several years I 1 hare have had good success with keeping geranium slips over at so with the old plants by cut cutting tifft the latter down last summer tho the heads of my ger antams were four inches across they were of the general grant Tar lAty a deep glowing red I 1 keep all my ger in a bay window of the living room where the temperature often falla falls to 40 degrees on very cold win ter bights nights every morning I 1 pour abou my largo geranium plants cold weal weak tea end and dig the tea leaves into the soil it Is a splendid tonic for them and keeps the leaves green and tb thrifty TO PREVENT GREEN ALGA to prevent the green alga that lorms torm on flower pots soak the pots in th the follo following solution take three ounces of copper coper carbonate und make a thick paste of it with water using a wooden pall tor for the purpose dl di lute five pints of strong ammonia with 20 pints of water add the diluted ammonia to the paste and stir thor hughly add water to make 60 gal ions or in this proportion scions for next aprin irs grafting should be cut now take them from the tho tips of the limbs and bury them in sand in the cellar do not allow the earth to dry out but it must not be kept too wet 4 ot 14 Z Z 45 4 5 r jea av or factor planting of vina hedged ara A I 1 a |
