Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-09


ceived, remove the paper wrapped
about the earth containing the roots,
and set the ball in shallow vessel
of slightly warm water. When the
earth is thoroughly soaked through,
lift it out of the water and put your
plants in small pots, if the beds in
the garden are not ready for them.
If the weather is warm, and danger
of frost at night is over. it is we'll to
set the plants where they are to
grow, at once. If the day is warm
and the sunshine strong 1t may be
we'll to shade them at first.
The most snowy bedding-plant IS
the geranium. 1t blossoms con-
stantly and profusely, is of remark
able variety in the way of color, and
gives a show of brilliant effect from
tie beginning, as small plants go to
blossoming at once when put in the
open ground. The scarlet varieties
are most dazzling, but the rose-color-
ed are more beautiful and more use
full in combination with other flowers
and colors.
Heliotropes are excellent bedders,
being boomers throughout the entire
season. They are not very beauti-
ful but of most delicious fragrance,
and for bouquets, for parlor vases,
and button-hole use they are unrivai-
led. We prize them as pot plants,
but no one knows what they are ca
pable of doing until he has seen them
growing in the open ground. A
plant bedded out in good soil will
produce twenty clusters Of flowers
where it would one if kept in pot,
and each cluster will be of double the
ordinary size.
Monthly roses are my favorites of
all bedding plants. They combine
beauty of color and form with all
that is most exquisite in the way of
fragrance, and they bloom constantly
if the flowers are removed as soon as
they begin to fade. Once or twice a
month go over the plants and cut
back here and there such branches as
show no signs of producing buds.
This will encourage new shoots to
start, and on this new growth flow
ers will be borne. The soil should
be rich for roses.
Bouvardias are very beautiful any
where, and they appear to best adj
vantage in the open ground. They
are very useful for cuttings, and you
will want some for every little nose
gay, as they combine so well with
pink geraniums, buds of tea roses,
heliotropes or pansies.
, Fucias do well bedded out If you
can give them shade from the hot
sun of midday. Unless they car
have that they are not very satisfac-
tory. In the right location they are
among the most delightful of all sum-
mer flowers.
Carnations are universally popular
because of their beauty and fra
GRANGE. They bloom profusely an(
are greater favorites with me thar
any other bedding plant, except tie:
y roses.
If you want some showy-leavet
plants, you can get nothing that viii
be superior to the coleus. 1t is
wonderfully variegated plant, ant
every year we have new varietie
which. in some respects, are superio
to the older ones, so that one gets t.
, wondering what the plant will com
: to, in time. Some varieties are a
- brilliant as flowers, and a bed O
- them, with an edging of gray cen
- taurea, is very fine for the lawn.
You must not fail to procure fe'
~ bulbs of gladiolus and tuberose. TIL
gladiolus has the brilliancy of othe
flowers combined with the delicacy c
- texture and graceful habit of th
lily. For autumn flowers it is unr
vailed, unless we call the tuberose
~ rival. The latter flower has a mos
- exquisite fragrance, while the gladie
- lus has none at all, but it is not S
- brilliant and has to have considers
:, BILE more attention given it. III
tuberose must be started early in tt
= season, in pots, to bloom befol
= frosty nights come, but the gladiolu
can be planted out at once. Tub
roses sometimes refuse to bloom, bl
" the gladiolus can always be depen'
- ed ON for from two to half a doze
" spikes of gorgeous flowers. The
:, are the finest of all fall flowers f,
~ use in tall vases for the parlor or Il
~ table.
~ If you would have plenty of flowe
. never let any 90 to seed. AS so(
u as they begin to fade remove thel
n Others will take their place. If SCI
"o is left to form and ripen, the pla
- bends all its energies to nourishil
~ it, and, in consequence, there is
'i' falling off in the quantity of flowers
90 Many bedding-plants, like geral
" ums, tea roses, fuchias and bouvs
= dias, can be kept for next season
wv use by taking them up in the ia
:, cutting off the tops, and packing
-" roots in boxes of earth which can
"0 kept in cool cellar. In the spri
-'oi they can be brought up and start
80 into growth in some moderately wa
W room. But little water should
liz given them during the winter. i