DIVIDING PERENNIALS
HINTS FOR THE.AMATEUR
This is a good time for dividing most of the perennial plants such as Heleniums.and Michaelmas daisies. The old clumps should be dug out, as much soil as possible shaken out, and the best of the young growth chosen for replanting. Do not oe tempted to plant pieces which are too big. Each crown will grow into a good plant ■hy next flowering season, and if the single crowns are planted 6 to 8 inches apart in clumps of five or six they will make quite good clumps by next flowering season. If planting is to be done in the old positions it will be necessary to renovate the soil, the best way being to take out a barrowful of the old soil and replace with entirely fresh ground with which some manure should be incorporated.
Nearly all plants of this class are rampant growers and consequently hungry feeders and soon impoverish .the -soil ,Jb.ej^areJn,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 26
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