FLOWER GARDEN SOILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 29 (Supplement)

FLOWER GARDEN SOILS.

METHODS OF TREATMENT. Thorough drainage, deep cultivation and a proper system of manuring are essential, for tho successful cultivation of annual flowering plants. These include bulbous and tuberous-rooted, herbaceous plants and the different varieties of ornamental flowering shrubs that are planted in the mixed borders and distributed in other places. The almost universal system now practised of growing annuals and butbyis plants in quantities in gardens of su'ft cient area enables the deep cultivation and manuring of the various beds and plots previously occupied by those sub ects to bo treated immediately after they have completed their" flowering and the bulbs have sufficiently ripened off to be taken up. In dealing with the mixed borders that ara occupied by shrubs and other permanent subjects deep cultivation cannot well i bo practised, but where spaces between the shrubs will admit, it should be performed according to circumstances. Loosening tho sub-soil enables the moisture to rise, keeps and sustains the plants in better condition during dry periods.