WORK IN THE FLOWER GARDEN
Keep the soil loose at the base of the sweet peas by constant hoeing or light forking. Keep the growths tied to supports. Climbers are now growing quickly. Train the growths in the required directions before they become tangled. Prune spring flowering shrubs as soon as the flowers are past. Sow in the open ground clarliias, godetias, Shirley poppies, mignonette, high-scented stoclc and coreopsis. Plant out dahlias and chrysanthemums as soon as ready. During the next two or three weeks violet runners may be planted for new beds. The Greenhouse Cuttingst of Ruellia macrantlia and other winter flowering plants may novj be inserted in sandy soil. Rex varieties of begonias can be increased by leaf cuttings inserted now. Sow the earliest batch of primulas for winter flowering in a compost of loam, leafsoil and sand. Pot on the tuberous begonias when they are sufficiently rooted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 10 (Supplement)
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