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Notes, News And Views Paeonies are now showing their redtips and should be planted within the next few weeks. * * Now is the ideal time to remake the alpine and rock garden. A little new soil is relished by the plants at this time of the year. There is still time to plant hardy bulbs for spring flowering. Have the bed well worked and place a layer of sand under each bulb. * ♦ » Prepare the asparagus bed for winter by cutting off the tops of the plants. Then spread a dressing of manure over the bed. , » » » Are some of your old-established clumps of perennials growing out of a “seji of sod”? How can such plants be expected to give on abundant crop of blossoms? Take a well-sharpened hoe or spade and clear away the grass from round the main stem for at least 18 inches.' Now cover this cleared space with a layer of well-rotted manure. Next spring note the effect in bloom.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 18
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163TIMELY TOPICS Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 18
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