FLOWER GARDEN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19007, 7 May 1924, Page 7

FLOWER GARDEN.

Sow sweet peas, nemesia, Canterbury bells, mignonette, dianthus, and Iceland poppies. Plant delphiniums, sweet peas, cinerarias, carnations, phlox, and stocks. When replanting herbaceous plants, such as phlox or perennial asters, or any that make a similar semi-woody root-stock, do not chop them up with a spade and plant just a block of the old roots, but choose the youngest and most vigorous of the young growths from the outside and plant singly. If a larger clump is required, plant three or five young growths in triangular form. As growth proceeds it is then more easy to train them upright, as a stake can be placed in the centre of the growth on each side tied securely without bunching the whole of the growths together. The improved montbretias are now amongst the best of flowering plants for the garden. They grow as freely and increase so rapidly that unless they have regular periodical division they soon become crowded and cease to flower freely. I think the best results as to flowering are attained by annual lifting and replanting as soon as the foliage has matured, but, in any case, lifting and division at least every third year is required to get Qven fair results.