THE FLOWER GARDEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE FLOWER GARDEN

FAVOURABLE SEASON / v The success of the flower garden during the summer greatly depends upon the treatment the soil in the beds and borders have received during the spring. The weather has never been more favourable,. The dry period throughout the month of August was quite exceptional, permitting the treatment of the soil by manuring, deep digging or trenching to be regularly proceeded with. By this means retentive soils,' usually unworkable during the winter, were sweetened, and brought into a fit state of pulverisation for the reception of the many seedlings and permanent plants that are flowering so freely, and in such a vigorous, healthy condition at the present time. .ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS Gardens and grounds, refreshed by the recent copious, warm rains, present a most gay and charming appearance. Trees snd shrubs are clothed in their new season's foliage. Spring-flowering trees and shrubs,, notably the hawthorn, are a mass of flowers, emitting a delightful perfume. Roses pever looked better, with their vigorous clean, healthy shoots. The climbing varieties are bedecked with the greatest profusion of lovely, sweet-scented blossoms. /■ Lilacs snowballs, wejgelias, dputzias and many other shrubs are in the full zenith of their floral beauty. Altogether, the prospects of a good gardening and floral season are most optimistic, following the exceptionally favourable winter and spring.