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THE GARDEN

SEASONABLE JOTTINGS NOTES BY "RATA” JN THE VEGETABI £ GARDEN Continue to sow French beans and peas. Plant out celery seedlings. Mulch and water all growing crops. Give fruit trees a light application of potash, raked into the surface. IN THE FLOWER GARDEN Sow in open beds zinnias, cosmos, phlox, and coreopsis. Plant out aureculas, verbenas, petunias, asters, mignonette. Remove all faded blooms from the fosee, also any suckers. Give carnations a good watering with liquid manure. VEGETABLES. Every opportunity must now be taken to sow and plant beds or vegetables while conditions are good, and before the heat of summer comes along. French beans should be sown every two or three weeks to keep up a succession. and climbing varieties, such as "Epicure,” Kentucky Wonder and General McCay, will do much towards keeping up the supply. Those already coming along must be kept well watered. and a mulch of old manure will greatly help. Uadishes, cress, mustard and lettuce must be sowit regularly so that, there will be no scarcity. Silver beet is far preferable to cabbage if grown quickly—a matter quite easy to do by the aid of nitrate of fcoda. The leaves are tender and of excellent* flavour. BEANS. Possibly runner beans are the most profitable, and the most popular of all beans, and the present is a good time for sowing the seeds, the ground now having a certain warmth in it. Runner beans demand and deserve n rich, deeply worked soil. Make a drill about 10 inches wide and two inches deep, sowing the seeds in double lines, and allowing eight inches apart each way. If slugs show a fondness for the seedtings when they come through dust the soil round them with old soot, or alternatively, scatter bran round the leedlinga. The climbing French bean is not so fastidious as far as soil is concerned as the runner bean, and does not require such high stakes. An excellent variety is “Prince of Wales.” SOWING PEAS. Now is the time to make a sowing of peas to secure pods during the latter part of February. Make a good wide drill, and sow the seeds thinly, and if the soil is dry water the drill well an hour or so , before sowing. Gladstones and Masterpiece are suitable varieties to sow now. FEEDING EARLY TOMATOES. Tomatoes generally are making good headway, and the fruits will bo setting within the next few weeks. When A couple of bunches are noticeable it is time to apply stimulants to swell the fruit. Liquid animal manure is good, also soot water, sulphate of ammonia (1 teaspoonful to a. gallon of water), and* various chemical manures can be given according to directions. These should be given not more than twice a week.

IN THE FLOWER GARDEN MICHAELMAS DAISIES. Tho vanguards of a class of plants that are extremely hardy, applying the term in its widest sense, are calling for more than a passing notice. (Jenerally called Michaelmas daisies, the genus is represented in private gardens by only a few varieties. Being herbaceous, as well as peeeunial, they subside for about six mouths after delighting us with their charming flower sprays, ranking, as they deserve, very high in tho estimation of florists. We are greatly indebted to both Belgian, as well as French florists, for many valuable additions to the list. The siso of the individual flowers has been greatly increased, tho range of colours widened, to include some lovely pink and corise shades. One novelty is of deep purple rose, really a true pansy shade. The flowers are panic-led, and pyramid shape. Tho culture of Michaelmas daisies is comparatively easy, ns thev are not fastidious as to position oi soil, they thrive either in partial shade or fullyexposed. may be planted in nuro sand, or the heaviest clay yet responding wonderfully well to good treatment. Soon after flowering the clumps can be divided up, discarding those portions bearing the old flower stems and retaining the outer growths. Odd corners. or vacancies, can be filled with a clump of Michaelmas daisies in sure and certain ho lie that the grower will be well dewnrded with quantities of delicately-tinted sprays of blue, mauve, pearl, and lavender blossoms. Tho best-named varieties are Teltham Blue, Beauty of Col-wall, Mrs H. Morris, Tapley Climax. Nancy Ballard. Lady l.lovd, Perfection, Anita Ballard, and Cloudy Blue. ANTIRRHINUMS. These popular plants, if well hardened off. may now be set out in their flowering quarters. Do not over-man-ure the beds for these plants, or foliage. instead of flowers, is likely. HYDRANGEAS. These showy flowering shrubs are just about to make their annual bid for special notice, there is nothing shy or retiring about tile hydrangeas, bold in outline, both in foliage and inflorescence. they fill up the corners or banks. Some people hold the view that hydrangeas are pink in one nart of the country and blue in another. An abundance of iron in tlie soil will cause mauve-tinted ones to approach blue in colour, whilst the same mauve or heliotrope tone will assume quite a pinkish shade where the soil is deficient in iron. There are some varieties so blue that no lack of mineral will make them pink. Some good varieties are “Avalanche,” pure white; “Bouquet Rose ’’ deep rose; “Mdme. Von Siebold,” clear violet: “Radiant,” carmine rose; “Hortensis,” pink or blue, sometimes on tho same plant.

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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 19

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THE GARDEN New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 19

THE GARDEN New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12615, 27 November 1926, Page 19

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