The Wall Flower For Garden and "Window.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3085, 26 February 1894, Page 6

The Wall Flower For Garden and "Window.

No outdoor plant has given greater satisfaction, writes one correspondent of American Gardening, for a window plant in winter than the wall flower. A plant rooted from a slip grew and blossomed all summer in the border and in late fall was potted and brought into the sitting room. It never wilted, but was one mass of blossoms all winter. It has had the same treatment every spring and fall since and is never out of bloom summer or winter. t It roots readily from slips and will stand extremes of temperature better than any house plant, but requires a great deal of water. Its growth will not be checked when lifted, even when in full bloom, if taken into a dark room for a few days and given plenty of water. Some of them will live all winter outdoors if a covering of leaves and hemlock boughs is laid on.

Pruning Ruses After the June Flowering. It is 'often very desirable to have hybrid perpetual roses flower freely in the fall. Meehan in his monthly says that to ac* complish this the plants should be severely pruned after the June flowering. Some growers cut almost the whole of the flowering branch away, leaving young shoots from near the bottom to take their places. An abundance of flowers usually follows thi3 treatment. Those who cut their rosebuds before mature or as soon as the petals fade have fall flowers freely.