PANSIES AND VIOLAS.
SELECTION OF STRAINS. Pansies and violas" from seed are easHy grown and exceedingly popular spring and early summer-flowering plants. Being extremely hardy, they mav be planted at any time throughout the winter. when the soil is fit to tread upon. The soil for pansies requires to be fairly rich, wellrotted cow dung raised with sand being the best manure. Pauses axa most eflertive when in bloom, when they ara planiwi about Sin. apart in round beds, with raised centres, to display their Sowers. If the beds are properly prepared by digging in manure no fertilisers ara necessary at the time they ara planted. Strains "f the largestfiowered and best-shaped and of the_ richest colours should bs seiectedL Ordinary, poor-coloured, small-Jlowered pansies ara not worth the room they c-ccuy. Vic las, by reason of their perpetual Sewering, and the charm of their starry flowers, so abundantly produced, are popular for edgings and borders. The colours now include many mere shades than formerly, and ihe size* of the flowers of some of the varieties makes the line of demarcation. between the pansy and the viola scmswhs* hazy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)
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