TOWN GARDENING.
Home Gardens, containing a variety at plants in mixed borders, lawns, and vegev table ground, will now tax owners to keep' them in order. Grass outting, edge clipping, hoeing up weeds, and sweeping walks, so as to assure a prevailing neatness, would seem to be work enough for odd time, yet there remain the waterings, tyinge, planting^, and potting-work associated with, as well aa apart from, greenhouses. Gardening is, in fact, an all-absorbing subject during the summer months wherever properly cared for aad appreciated. If not so, it becomes ! neglected, untidy, and an external ' picture' damaging to the outer aspect; of the best of homes. The amusement part of gardening includes picking off decayed flowers and useless seed pods, ripening leaves, &c.; securing plants to their stakes as growth advances, pegging down Petuniaß, strangling Ivy-leaved. Pelargoniums, &o.; propagating zonal Pelargoniums, cuttings of which strike readily if inserted into the open ground ; though, to save future potting up, it is more convenient to place them in small pots under similar exposure, &o.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3174, 19 June 1900, Page 2
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173TOWN GARDENING. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3174, 19 June 1900, Page 2
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