Gardening Notes.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 16 July 1887, Page 2

Gardening Notes.

While complying with '• Flower Pol/' request we mav hero- stato, that it isu the greatest pleasure to us, to, at any tinio assist any of our readers to the ''l fullest extent of our knowledge; and; it is aiitiply conferring a favor on uebv .suggesting "subjects" for ourtion (If-There are several book's'on.. "Window,, Gardening"'among' among which are "Your Plants in the House and in the Gardeti'j'by James Sh'eeban.'WindowFlowefc hardening by Heinrieh. "Window Gardening'' by William^

I^ 1 ' Modern Window Gardening" by Wood. Tlio prices aro respectively about two shillings, three ahil- . Kors,'seven shillings, and live shillings audi believe vthat, they can all be obtained'»t Wbitcombo and Tombd, . ebietchurch. 'There is a now.book . :on-New Zealand' 'Gardening ,by, 11 r. to/at-Kalf-crtwDjy. (2) : . Tbe iucb : lieaii be • ii.o'atiiseful.Ki whichyoupy add alittle- • ■■: leaif.rao'ul"d,,the : whicfi you can'pbtttin ;. at the base ; -of} same; layge p turn p; 'Ghd / it:.nccilriiulatetl wftbe' r : y:'fec'esseß ijetween; tt62«W'or';-root it will, be discerned l»j lai'ng,' £*efy rftiMe! •If ! 'ybii'r.':lcom-" fc|^sVlsl'.|i6t. ! already so,', it will •be h improved by; adding a iiuie-fibroua 5. .material, also add a little .sand. > This

'.y Boil.Will suit almost all kinds of soft- ■■ -wooded plants.',' For.bulbs,'and'hardttooded plants, the soil should be a . "little stifler, the clean stuff from .your •■ «k1 heap with the addition of'a very ;■ little sand will suit them. When in ajjtfgorous growth they will bo benefitted ™y copious waterings 'with weak liquid '• umuure two or three times a week. (3) iAiTango the psts and boxes.inside '•'.■' your window with north-west exposure .* and the ■•varieties of'plants, you can •.grow will be legion. We should not be t. : surprised if some orchids'we're to become .'popular for" window decoration. ;-vWc : -.have just received 'intelligence •:froia ISiVgtautl Umt rt friend has kept'.an.Oncidium'conoblor hud an Odonto-

-glossum Ucrv'antesi iitheopoii ait all ilast summer.', They; were. afterwards ■••ramoted-indoprs arid put near a window : the.y were, at I'he'itini.e of writing, Warning into bloom. Wo have now a - with three nice • blooms on it, in a window facing north'--jvest/ Your suggestions were good. Fuchsias, Priibu--.las, Cinerarias, winter flowering-Bego-nias would do well, also, clumps of ,bulbß, jsuch as Daffodil, ftarchsus, •Sparaxiß, Ixias, etc.,. which should bo Sifted very carefully as soon as possiible .after they begin to show above ground detaining as much tsarlh as possibble n'ound the bulls us the roots are. .so ■easily damaged. Maguiticont speci!\ifjjjf of Lilium cximiuui were dowered iirrßors last season and excited universal.&duiii'atibu, Some dwarf annuals am be sowu in your situation and had in bloom about 2 months from sowing N e-. mophila Maculata,N.ln6igniß. Candytuft (various) Mignonette, Loptosiplion Aureus, Koßeus,elc,alltlieunnunlChrysantbehiuins, including Tricolor, Bur.

Jkridgeanuin, Segetuttf, Dunnetti, ;: cfc.J P^Chesb'are-very showy, comprising siugle' and double varieties—must he i s§wn at'once very thinly in.polß or\)(d%place a'pira of brown--papw ,over . ; :theui liutil .tliey .'how above; ground, : wlien they must' gradually bs UlUred to good light; S « eet Peasaud* Dwarf Nasturtiums cun bo grovvn iii: pots, placed in a wire baakei and' packed.roiind with m.os3,theu hung inyour window, and, they will sooii repay anylittlo trouble yon'may. huvd given them. If you are a haudy. iuah wkk tools/you may provido an auxiliary incalculable servico to you. Aframowero you can raise all yoiiri plants' ready for. transference, to..your' windoiv,' uiaybe wftaY any siiio you. wish- by taking three' or four - eight inch-board*, the length you. lequiro, Jay tbera r alongside each other and iaaten" tbeni together, by nailing ledges •across the whole, -, This! is to form, the back,'two feet-or.two feet eight auches high,',';' The front, if the back i» two ieaf.iiigh, will only require to ie oue'jjdavd in height, ,but if .the tack is cotupoßecUof 'five boards," the • !v4gnt will i'ta- bo madoJof'two •ylHrds. ''£jthi>".oiid ledges :;sbottld be raed about/two inches .from : ehda' of back and.,..frpnt so as : to form a shoulder W.nail the sides-into; The aides must .be.tho .Ba'me height as back where it 'joins tho back and sawn down to the height ot front where it joins that,' Hero you will have a ...sloping frabie.considerably higher. at. '.back than.ff.ont. Nov proceed to WukMpme light frames of two inches ~by ..battens,, nailing them '•.togetherat the corners. Then cover ineiu with. good, stout unbleached «ali6o, stretching it tight after which it must be coated with boiled linseed oil, to which, has been added a little .-'jdpannera, gold .size, or somo finely •' igtound sugar, of lead to causo it to 'dry. -This will form a very good light to grow, .almost any kind of plant lender j it .is. better adapted than glass .'by far for growingCameliaß,Fuchsias ; :-'»r Cucurob'er's.'-'under; and will last Jiully three or four'years if' nothing is «' »d 'throughi it. ..The writer bus a hirty feet long'and, eleven feet . with a pa'tli ; down the-centre, do which a" variety of plant* are bow being,, got:, on ■' fot •' w\f purposes;; the. whole .Which ■is covered in .with culico ■as dk ecribed. Such'a'fiynie.as 1 have cacommended will' be'.'.most useful foi . taißiug. 'in pots' ton'dcr annuals - as Balsams, Cockscomb's, Asters,:.'Ziimia.B, JJicotjaoa AihTii| also providing £ piaceteje Pelargoniums, including.al variclWas Zoi/aies,,faiicyj'.show.aiic regalsjcan be kejjfduring theirseasoi flf refit, also Petunias,' 'Azalias,. Camel : ias, Bpnyardias, heliotropes, Heaths and ft' hdst'of other .'plants; Anioiif tiebestjlauts for'rbbm decoration an flowuritig' 7 'Begonias, • and j \filk-say somothing further on then Bifjct week. The framo.should fact . vtforlh. '