BORDER CARNATIONS
Plant Them Now Having some choice varieties of border carnations you probably wintered carefully, plant them out now. The ideal situation is a bed or border. raised 6in, above the normal level, and in which the soil has been dug 18in. deep. Carnations respond in wonderful degree to a soil containing well-decayed manure (preferably cow manure) and lime rubble, three-quarters of a bucketful of the former and a quarter of a bucketful of the latter per square yard. Well firm the still.
Take out planting .holes with a trowel; wide enough to allow full root spread but of such-a depth that the roots are only just buried.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 24
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109BORDER CARNATIONS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 24
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