A TRIM-UP FOR VIOLAS AND PANSIES
You remember that when you set out your violas and pansies each had two or three stems. Those stems have bloomed without interruption, but are now beginning to decline. It is a case of exhaustion pure and simple. Now that this first growth is tired, you should retain it no longer. Its removal does not necessitate the stripping of the plants, for at their centre several young suckers, all potential flowerers, are arising.
So long as the old shoots remain, they will command the major quantity of food.
The obvious duty, therefore, is to remove the old shoots. Spread the job over a fortnight. On three occasions within that period remove an equal number of shoots, so that at the end of it nothing is left on the violas and pansies but young growth, which will put up a splendid flowering performance until well into autumn.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 41, 12 November 1937, Page 20
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