CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 18

CORRESPONDENCE

PRUNING AZALEAS.

"Gardener."-I —No regular pruning is needed for azaleas, but as- your plant is straggly the longer branches may be shortened back . 'immediately after flowering when new growth should come away from the cut portion. ERADICATING OJ^ALIS. "Sea View."—This is- one of the most difficult plants to get rid of, the tiny "bulbs" dropping into the ground and coming up from a' considerable depth. If they are growing in the paths any ordinary weed-killer would eventually get-rid of them, but it would be necessary to persevere with the applications as often as the growth appeared. This method could not, of course^- be used'on ground to be cultiivate'd as the weediKjUeVwould make the jspil" absolutely .' s'tefiler:' 'knd ' nothing could be grown on' it \ for years after. If the plot affected is not too large the most.satisfactory way of getting rid of the oxalis is to remove the soil entirely knd replace with fresh. The only other way is to; take ; out- as many :of the "bulbs" as can ;be found, going over tXe plot several times and then pulling out, any which may appdar subsequently, as- they appear. -:•'. If ..they r are prevented from breathing they must eventually die. ' ■■ ■•■.-•■. v,:;;'.;.• ■■;. :;■ ;