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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Mi Protecting Flowers from Frost MiHEN Jack Frost has Tinted the Vaf garden and checked or blight ed the vegetation, the flower lover will consider what shall be done for the various plants and shrubs. Jack Frost usually makes himself decidedly evident about the first of November. Different plant:; demand different treatment. Such flower3 as peonies and hollyhocks Will come up again the following year If they are properly protected during the winter, while others like eannus and dahlies, which are more accustomed to warmer climes, must have thoir roots or bulb3 dug up and stored In a collar. At this sea son many Inquiries come to the United States Department of Agri culture regarding the treatment needed by different plants, and tho Department's specialists have given the following suggestions regarding some of them: Hardy Perennials. Hardy perrennials that are ex pected to live through the winter, should bo covered with a good coat ing of manure or other litter to a depth of three or four Inches. This In more southern localities will hold the frost in the ground during tho winter and keep the plant from al ternately freezing and thawing; In mote northern regions the manure will keep the plant from freezing to so great a depth that its water sup ply would be cut off and the plant would perish. This treatment is good for peonieB, larkspur, holly hocks, columbines, Iris, paltyco doues, and perrennial popples, (.'annus, Dahlias, Etc. A soon as tho tops of can nas, dahlias, gladiolas, caladiums, similar plants are killed by the frofit, the roots or bulbs should be dug and stored in a collar, where the temperature will remain about 55 decrees and should never go be low CO or nbovo 60 degrees. No more earth should bo shaken from the cliiini.i of faunas and dahlias than Ifi necessary to remove them from I lie ground. The plants may he placed on racks or in slat boxes co the air may circulate freely throufii thoni. No frost, must reach the roots, nor mm t they become too vi' rm or dry. Willi bulbous plants, such as cal ailliuns, gladiolus, tuberoses, It Is desirable to remove nil tho soil and dry them In the open air a day or two before storing. The killed tops of nil vegetation may well ho removed from one's flower beds after Jack Frost has visited them. This is merely for the snltn of appearance, as it has nothing to do with making the gar den more sueccssful the coming sea son. PnnNles. If pansies nro expected to do well In tli o South they must bo sot out In the fall, and need the protection of manure ns do the perennials. In tho South, pansies make tho best Bhowlng In tho early spring, and Inter In tho summer are burnt up by the hot sun. North of the region from New York City to Springfield, Illinois, pansies do belter If sot out In tho spring than If planted In the fall, for In theso regions the flow ers will not be affected by the strong sunlight and they should blossom all summer. U omnium. The ordinary method of carrying teranlums over the winter as used by florists Is as follows: A few vigorous young plants aro taken Into a conservatory or green house and cuttings are taken from these during the winter from which new supply of plants Is frown for spring use. The cuttings for the spring supply should not be made later than January, If good stocky plants are deulrod for the next sum mer's use. The. ordinary house holder who desires to keep his or her plants through the winter is not usually the possessor of a conservatory wnero he can follow the method uUlned above. The following nig gesUons may help him to keep i art of hla geraniums, at least. urnugaout Ue winter season, De- fore the frost has killed the plants, dig up the geraniums and place them in a cool, damp cellar. This cellar should be cooler than that In which bulbs are kept, ranging in temperature from 40 to 60 degrees; In other words, such a cellar as is suitable for storing potatoes. The plants may be placed In deep boxes, standing up and packed close together with a little dry soil about the roots. Geraniums are also some times hung up by the roots on the wall or from the posts. In spring, the tops of these plants should be cut off within two or three inches of the ground and the roots again planted. A loss of half the plants Is to be anticipated In following this procedure." Garden Notes npHK blooming season of almost all i annuals may be greatly pro longed, not only by picking off the seed heads, but by cutting back severly, the entire plant, which will, except in a season of severe drough, make a fine, new growth and blos som profusely. This is especially true of the cornflowers or bachelor buttons, marigolds, larkspurs, and candytuft, and also of those general favorites, the nasturtiums, or trop neolums, not, however, taking off the central stalks of these, but pick ing closely every day to prevent the formation of seed. Professor Hunter of the depart ment of entomology of the Univer sity of Kansas has found, as a result of experiments which he has con ducted In the university orchard, that apples nipped by frost before picking in the fall may be saved by spraying with cold water to draw out the frost. It the water Is ap plied bofore the apples begin to thaw the bloom of the apple is re stored, and it is left in nearly per feet condition. Astors unquestionably take rank as the finest of midsummer annuals, and their development and training will amply repay any extra care that may be boRtowed. They do not thrive in stiff clay soils, and before sowing the seed or transferring from tho hotbed the border designed for them should have a specially pre pared Boll of loam, rich compost and sand. Do not plant flower-plants too close together. Verbenas should be at loast 18 inchos apart; petunias the same; phlox a foot; balsams a foot; pansies 10 Inches: slnnlas 18 inches; marlhold two feet; poppleB 10 Inches. If flowers are too close in the bed they will not make as thrifty a growth nor will the flowers be as large and plentiful. Keep flower beds out of the cen ter of the lawn. They show with bettor effect If used as borders for walks and around the sides of the lawn. Soapwort, bouncing bet, hedge pink, brulsewort, old maid's pink or Fuller's herb, as Baponaria offici nalis Is" commonly called, makes a good plant for the garden. The flowers are fragrant, of a delicate shade of pink, growing on stoma one or two foeet high. It is found grow ing along the roadsides and in waste places. The flowering season Is from June until Beptembor. The leaves when bruised and stirred about In water make a cloanslng lather. Another good wild flowor for the garden Is the bnttorfly weed, pleur isy root, orango root or orange milk weed. The botanical name la Ascle plas tuberosa. The flowers are of a very unusual hue of reddish orange. The stem grows one to two feet high. They are found In dry or sandy fields and along the roadsides. Plant In masses and also mass the flowers In large vases when they are picked. 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