THE FRAGRANT WALLFLOWER
The sweet-scented velvety-petalled wallflowers have long been favourite spring flowers, but of late years great strides have been made in their cultivation and bowls filled with blooms of the modern shades of bronze, old-gold and flame bring a wonderful glow of colour into the house. The purple variety, which deserves to be more widely grown, is also most effective for decorative purposes, especially when arranged with the blue forget-me-nots, or pale yellow tulips. To obtain really fine flowers, the seeds should be sown in April, and the seedlings transplanted, when the third leaf has formed six inches each way, in a firm bed, and finally planted out in September or October a foot to a foot and a-half apart. Wallflowers need very firm planting to insure sturdy growth, and require a well-drained soil to which lime or old mortar has been added.' Double flowered varieties may be propagated by cuttings taken in a cold frame or shadv border in August.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 11
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163THE FRAGRANT WALLFLOWER Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 11
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