Transplanting Of Seedlings

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 14 (Supplement)

Transplanting Of Seedlings

ANNUAL and biennial seedlings, chooen for their particular *Mon of growth and flowering, 'provide the moot attractive, the greatest abundance of flowers and | are the simplest and best means of keeping the flower beds and borders filled. Many object to annuals on account of having to pull them out after the flowering is put and replace them, but even wkh this disadvantage there are arguments in favour of annuals. They prorido a constant and ever-varying change, so essential to the enthusiast, and also allow the ground to be properlv treated once a year at least by manur-

ing and digging, whereas when planted with perenuial*. which occupy the «me places throughout the year, digging and working the soil around them is difficult and almost impossible without too much interference with their root*. In mentioning digging, all weeds, excepting sorrel, docks, convolvulus and any other of a perennial character, should be dug under, also any debris of plant and leaf rubbish; this keep* the soil free and manures and enriches it. So many make it a practice to clear the surface of oil weeds and do away wrth them: thk naturally impoverishes the soil. There are times when it is necessary tn carry off the weeds, but thw should be made up by mulching the border with some good compost.