HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20381, 30 October 1931, Page 8

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

LECTURES ON FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES. - An address on the growing of flowers from seed was given before the Canterbury Horticultural Society last evening by Mr M. J. Barnett,, Superintendent of City Reserves. Mr O. W. B. Anderson presided over a good attendance of members of the Society. The first problem to be considered, said Mr Barnett, was the growing of young plants from the seeds. The seed of annuals should not be sown too

wwl J n the , mun i ci pal nurseries, where they used heat, the bulk of the seed was not sown until the middle of August. To get good seed germination tL WaS ? ecessar y> too, to consider the Sn ra^ Ur *l 0f heat used > the con- ■ . soil, and the amount of moisture present All these had to be 3£w '® the faUuro of one prevent germination. shoul^'hn 116 - SeCd had ■ Serainated it should be given a 10 wer temperature, and as soon as it was large enough to boxes 6 V,T !d f b ® J' P rick ed-ofif >' into th«"i..*? 7 ° Whafc were >"> own as the hardy annuals" did better if thev :ir t ar t *«• *£Jis to flower-that was to say, outside. Bed/i ® a lnf tfc Went On to deal the bedding-out process. It was not advisabie, as a rule, he said, to bed out he average plant before Labour Day If it was wished to have beds in floww during; the Whole of the necessary to plant several types 2 In«

bed, bees am the irarag flowered only for ibo«t WK was a question <rf * frf^Jsi3B|TMM of plants to giT» tfc* I—J l **;' jaHHI brightest shoviag. To colours satisfactorily "■•l®"®?'2SmHh caase mistakes woald <w»> only way to work o»t a^ scheme was to wt> wtaß flowering season and tt* * them at the next ptaittfiß-.. A short lecture on n >^^ n ?Sp|B was also given by Mr -T., head gardener to the SdlgOW^gß|fe|M^^B On the motion of Mr 1* |||^H of thanks was carried to