CORRESPONDENCE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 225, 19 June 1936, Page 18

CORRESPONDENCE

Answers to Inquiries

Basic Slag for Fruit Trees.— Apply at the rate of half a pound to each square yard of ground occupied by the trees. Scatter evenly and fork in lightly. (A.8.C., Havelock.) Cutting Back Aubretlas.— -Anbretias should be cut hard back every year after flowering is over. Those wbieh have been overlooked may be cut back now, provided the weather is mild. Cut all straggling growths t’o that you have left only the centre of the plant forming a compact cushion of growlh. (C. 11. Palmerston North.)

Old Border Carnations. — ll in not good practice to lift and transplant old border carnations to a fresh site, as it is.doubtful whether they would take root. Leave them until after they have flowered, then layer the best of the young shoots. Il you must move the old plants, do not do it until September, and then lift them with a good ball of soil. (E.C.l*., Wellington.)

Watering Japanese Gardens. —Japanese gardens require very little care beyond keeping them correctly watered, the best way to do this being to use a goodsized scent sprayer that will produce a fine mist. Use only soft water and keep I lie spraver exclusively for watering the garden. ' Spray the plants and the soil so as to imitate miniature rain, and cease spraying when the surface soil or mosses are coated with beads of moisture. (T.T., Wellington.)