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  2. Jottings

    FREQUENT soil stirring to admit sunshine and air will do more for plants that the application of a mulch at this time of the year. ...

    Article : 525 words
  3. GROW CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR GARDEN AND EXHIBITION

    CHRYSANTHEMUMS grown in the garden, require little attention if one adopts the "let them all come" method. An attractive show may be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 914 words
  4. Question Box

    "Pale Leaf," Darlington.—It is difficult, to attribute the cause of your daphne bush yellowing. Generally it is a sign of death. Without seeing your coprosma hedge it ...

    Article : 451 words
  5. Vegetable Scraps

    WEATHER conditions should be mote to the liking of beans, melons, marrows, and tomatoes Prepare for seed sow-ings and plantings. ...

    Article : 319 words
  6. TONING UP THE LAWN

    GRASS requires nourishment. Early spring is the beet time to give this attention. It is not necessary to be continually topdressing a lawn with soil. The ...

    Article : 821 words
  7. Garden Calendar

    SEEDS.—The following may be sown In pans or boxes covered with glass, or Id sheltered beds—Amarantbus. antirrhinums. asters, squllegia, balsam (sowing balsams in ...

    Article : 743 words
  8. BEAUTIFUL CINERARIAS

    CINERARIAS, in blue, mauve, heliotrope, white, and the shades between, form a glowing picture at the home of Mr. Richard Ockenden, of Fifth avenue, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 168 words
  9. Cape Gooseberry Seed Can Be Planted Now

    CAPE gooseberries are worth growing if there is space available in a sunny position. The plants give useful fruit for making perserves and for desert. They ...

    Article : 173 words
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    Advertising : 1,130 words
  11. THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL HINT

    BLUE flowers can be obtained from pink hydrangea plants by using alum or oxide of iron. In bills gardens and other places where iron is contained in the soil, most pink varieties ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. Work in the Vegetable Garden

    WEATHER conditions should be right during the next week or two for planting out tomatoes in the open garden and the sowing of beans, melons, and cucumber ...

    Article : 303 words
  13. Delphiniums for Next Year

    DELPHINIUMS flourish in warm weather. Now is the time to sow seed eo that sturdy plants may be obtained for next year's flowering. ...

    Article : 224 words
  14. £25 A CORM

    Described as being "orange flame" a new gladiolus named "Capt. E. M. Churcher" defeated all competitors at a flower show at Southport in England. It is being ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. Seen This Week

    TEASES of ursinias, dainty Bowers recently introduced from South Africa. There were two distinct varieties, anethoides and cakilifolia, and they were ...

    Article : 181 words
  16. Hypericum Perforatum is Bad Boy of SL John's Wort Family

    ONE variety of St. John's wort is a noxious weed and causes much consternation to landowners, particularly in some parts of the Mount Lofty Ranges ...

    Article : 239 words
  17. The Moon and Plants

    A correspondent to an English newspaper states that the belief that seeds should be planted in the moonlight is not merely a superstition. It has been shown ...

    Article : 88 words
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