THE FLOWER GARDEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 178, 30 July 1932, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE FLOWER GARDEN

Favourable conditions have enabled planting, digging and other seasonable operations to be proceeded with successfully. Continue the planting, pruning, and treatment of any of the rose bushes and climbers affected with the white scale. Lilies should be planted. Arrange the bulbs in small clumps and plant them four to six inches beneath the surface. Anemones, ranunculi,, tulips and other spring-flowering bulbs should have the surface soil around them lightly stirred weekly. All varieties of stocks, pansies, Iceland poppies, violas, primulas, penstemons. lobelias, polyanthus, primroses, and a few other varieties may be planted. Cinerarias and nemesias where planted in exposed frosty localities and unprotected have fared badly. Nemesias are too tender for early planting. The end of this month is quite soon enough to plant these showy an nuals. Rooted cuttings of spring bedding and rock garden plants, and also seedlings of fibrous begonias, should be boxed off into shallow trays. Hasten on with the planting of hedges, evergreen and deciduous trees, flowering shrubs and other permanent plants.