HINTS TO LOVERS OF FLOWERS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7829, 23 August 1904, Page 7

HINTS TO LOVERS OF FLOWERS

Never be dissuaded from making 'daring experiments. The efforts which are conventionally declared impossible <of ten turn out best of all. A toad in the garden is a real friend to the gardener. It means a dearth of insects and other plant enemies, audit costs , nothing at all to keep. The love of flowers means happiness, .git, refinement, unfailing satisfaction. No passion can be so easily, delightfully gratified; none gives more joyful results.

If you have by chance a stone wall uncovered set out a memorial rose to train over it, and you will soon rejoice in a mass of trailing beauty and wondrous, luxuriant bloom.

The wild garden should receive addiijiums all summer. Comparatively few flftt'ople can recognize wild flowers exby their blossoms, so the work of ■transplanting must be this summer performed in behalf of next.

Once more, for the benefit of dwellers in shadeless places, remember the petunia, ealliopsis, portulaca, marigold, geranium, nasturtium and phlox. Buy plants if the soil seems too poor to raise them easily, water well in the cool of the evening, and bright color will be yours in abundance, if nothing else.

Most water plants love sunshine, and the long, hot days should bring , forth bloom in abundance. Encourage the water lilies with weak fertilizer if they seem backward and remove all branches or objects that obstruct the sunshine. With water hyacinths also, sunshine and fresh air should be tranlated into glorious bloom.

Gourds are sometimes considered rather plebeian, for a flower garden, but some of the varieties are> most charming. The eyelanthera explodens variety has beautiful deeply divided

leaves, feathery blossoms, and, later,

quantities of the peculiar fruit. This jkind is so attractive that, once tried, it -flpfill never be forgotten.

Next winter seems far away, in the 'June sunshine, but cuttings for the window garden should be made now. Late cuttings will not prosper. Geraniums, in particular, need early slipping if they are to blossom before or soon after Christmas. A quiet corner of the garden is the best place for plants making this sturdy growth.

.Do not, if you desire- flowers in plenty, be too tender-hearted. When

ft plan shows signs of ceasing blooming

cut back ruthlessly, allow to rest foi a. brief period, and encourage to ne— efforts. For similar reasons, cut all your blossoms, unless you are working for seed instead of in the interests of your garden and your vases.