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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.
They last for days In water and on
the plant or In bouquets when
treated In this manner make a
splendid show,
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