THE FLOWER GARDEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20976, 12 September 1931, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE FLOWER GARDEN.

?./ Plant only the hardy varieties of annual and MenMal plants', such as stocks, verbenas, larkspurs,, campanulas, pansies, violas, gaillardias, lobelias, coreopsis, grandiflora and tinctoria, dimorphotheca, carnations, cornflowers, sweet scabious, and other hardy kinds. Sow under glass Phlox Drummondii, large-flowered petunias, salpiglossis, schiaanthus, French and African marigolds, scarlet salvias, miniature sunflower, asters, hollyhocks, celosia cristata and pyrlmidalis, and other summer-flowering kinds. The soil being still wet and cold and weather conditions uncertain defer the sowing of flower seeds in the open ground until the first week in October, The planting of roses may be continued until the end of the month. On the first appearance of aphis upon the young started shoots spray with Gishurst's Compound, applied warm, through a fine nozzle. Prepare ground for chrysanthemums. Dig in 81b. to 121b. of basic slag and 21b. of sulphate of ammonia per 40 square yards. After the digging apply a liberal surface dressing of lime to sweeten the soil and check slugs and other insects. Plant evergreen climbing plants any time until the middle of October. Slugs at this season are most destructive and must be dealt with. In addition to the insecticides on the .market small heaps of bran placed here and there attract them from anywhere near. Between nine and 10 o'clock gather up the slugs in a tin containing a little salt and water. Plant bamboos, ornamental and shelter trees and flowering shrubs (evergreen and deciduous), hedge plants, roses, etc. Plant flowering and other gums, azaleas, rhododendrons, also pepper trees, grevilleas, jacarandas, acacias and other trees and shrubs that are grown in pots.