IT IS WORTH REMEMBERING THAT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 13

IT IS WORTH REMEMBERING THAT

Those of you who have any empty hanging baskets should plant a few of them with lobelia. We do not 1 have many plants with blue flowers | i and lobelia is one of the few we can use for hanging baskets. -I- 4- 4The dwarf antirrhinums are splendid bedding subjects and it is surprising they are not used for this purpose more often. The Wanum Grandifiorum varieties are a splendid type for this purpose. The height of the plants seldom exceed 18 inches and the habit of the plant makes it ideally suited to bedding. “Welcome,” the best of all crimsons, is a true deep brilliant crimson with foliage of a medium darkness. The Tom Thumb varieties make a splendid edging to the Namum Grandiliora type or as an edging for the mixed border they are just as useful. The colours, scarlet, copper red, crimson, yellow, pink, can be purchased separately or mixed. 4- 4* Iceland Poppy, “Sandford’s Aurora,” is a giant strain with stems two feet to three feet long. Flowers up to five inches in diameter, with a wide range of delicate colours, including flesh, apricot, orange, blood red, salmon pink, and deepest yellow to cream. Scabious, Double Giant Loveliness is a new colour in annual Scabious. It is unsurpassed as a cut flower. Of a glorious salmon rose colour, this new Scabious should be very popular as a cut flower for decorative purposes. Petunia, “Rosy Morn.” A striking introduction of recent years. The plant is compact in growth and the colour of the flower is charming. Bright rose pink with a white throat. It is specially suitable for bedding or the border. 4-4-4-An introduction from Africa that is becoming popular is Ursinia Ane- / thoides. It is an attractive annual, - easy to grow and like most of the subv jects from Africa the flowers only u remain open till dark. The stems are - long and the flowers are a rich g orange yellow with a ring of deep e purple with spots of a darker shade. :l It is both excellent for cutting or for i. garden decoration. t. Godetia, “Thunderbolt.” Darkest t crimson ever introduced, but there is a brilliancy that saves it from dullq ness. Compact and slightly dwarf I makes it an ideal bedder. y * 4s r Ageratum, Dwarf Celestial. A very ’ fine compact Ageratum of the blue ball type, but with heads of at least f twice the size. The colour is a midblue, the brightest of them all. 1 A quick flowering bedder is Vir--1 ginian Stock. It can be purchased in mixed colours and must be sown where 5 intended to flower. A good “hurry- • up” bedder. e Don't neglect to have a bed of s nemesia this year. One of our most i charming annuals. Early blooming, I they remain in bloom many weeks I. and the plants are literally covered e with bloom. One of our best bedding plants. Fagus Fusca. The New Zealand Red Birch should be in every garden. Ideally suited for foliage for decorative purposes. !, 4i -tr h Worth While Chrysanthemums, p Exhibition.—Red; The Jayson, A. . Staples, Sir Wm. Brunton, Miss M. ’ Griffin, Red Majestic. Yellow. F. S. n Vallis, Yellow Majestic, Mrs. E. Alston, Sir Wm. McPherson, J. S. Lloyd, Pink Pockett, Miss Tuckett, Gallopali, Daily Sketch, Mrs. J. Woolman. White: Wm. Turner, Louisa Pockett, s Mrs. Alec. Aikmen, Gwenne Lafford, Alice Benson. Any other colour; G Majestic, Edith Cavell, Autumn Tints, e A. E. Tyson, Adianth Ghosh. ? Singles.—Bandmaster, Golden Seal, Nona, Healesville Bronze, Mary J. Irvine, Supreme, Mrs. F. T. Smith, Molly Godfrey, Robt. Collins, Bracken, Desert Song, Susan. Anemone Centered.—Caleb Cox, Barbara Hilburry, Triumph, Thpra. Decoratives.—lncurve Poistou, Jean r Patterson, Mrs. Lloyd, Miss Ethel n Shaw, Mrs. R. Felton, Mrs. Hood, e Pink Annie Hamilton, H. Larwood, - Alex. McAlpine. d s v =■ BUSH FRUITS r y h IMPORTANT TO SMALL GARDENS d e [. Loganberries are best grown on new rods every years. There is seldom any difficulty in securing a sufficiency each season. The old rods should be cut out if there are enough young ones for fruiting. If there are not, r some of those that fruited last season may be kept. They will fruit again if the bearing twigs are reduced to e short spurs. Gooseberries may be pruned as soon as the leaves are off. e Remember that there is nothing j gained by having a crowded bush, and s ’ the latter is a constant nuisance. If II the branches are kept open to light they will give their best, and only d then. Prune so as to secure a bush s that is so open that fruit can be r gathered in comfort. Such a bush has as much wood as it can properly e furnish with fruit. Cut out branches where necessary. The young growths in the centre should be reduced to spurs, and those on the outside shortened to strong buds. Keep an open centre. Red and white currants should be kept to a single main stem. They s should not be allowed to throw up h I stems from under the ground. c ; i- ■ GREEN PEAS c s Green peas that are a few inches i. high will need a little protection. Even b a slight protection makes a difference e in the date of the first picking of peas. It is a great help to them if a j brushwood protection can be made e along the exposed side. The brush 1 need not be more than ISin. high. - Even twiggy sticks about a foot high - placed in the ground alongside the r peas will afford a considerable warmth to the young plants.