The Garden.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13811, 23 January 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Garden.

Sweet peas are still flowering freely,' and although "tp- ensure their good a great amount'-of. ■ patience and skill is required, such flowers are worth all the-trouble. .This 'season thoy havp been surpassingly "beautiful, 'and their great prolificacy'and sweet scent entitle them to the increasing love they yearly command' from ail classes of gardeners. : '-'' i; .■..'•''"■ ■■-' ■'' ■ ■''■■

'■ All the spring flowering annuals "a to still with, us and, many -of '.the'summer flowering orio also. ■■ DVildias tha't ,w£re planted' early arte showing their -blooms, and those -that- 'were' planted iii' pecehiber are also ■ growing fast, ■ - and the' soouer they are staked :< the ' better. Chrysanthemums are leaping 'into growth, and ought to hnvo been staked and well ticd'bof'brethis. ! Tie''firmly but' not too tightly, 'and if: ; fine flowers arc* desired, disbud freely.' MoSt gardeners grow Chrysanthoiinints * for the wealth of blpfJiii, and hot: for'individual flowers, except of course, the exhibitors at our ■shows. Gladioli caiinaff, and the beautiful members of thearuhi family are alt adding beauty to 1 shrubberies, and borders. Thbre is 'very' little to.be done save routine work, suoh as staking, tying, mulching if*thp weather proves dry and hot,.taking-.up ripe bulbs of. all kinds, and-storing jiw'it.v carefully, in a cool,' but dry' house with +be names of one and all marked legibly. ;- '. -..'.. ', - '..;-..-

A new rose is tlie W. E. Lippiatt, n. hybird tea, a. brilliant velvety crimson shaded maroon, aud with a most delicious scent.

Grass lawns and paths require con-, stunt attention, for growth is very rapid and continuous. Keep the lawn mower constantly going. Many gardeners like to save their .own seeds, and there is no reason, why they should not. But groat care.should bo taken to ' save th 6. seed only from the host plants, and all weak' and badly shaped flowers should be ; pulled ■• up before the ' flowers'' fade, , otherwise saving seed is impossible' ;•'".