The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31
Flower Lore For September.

kAoWer-Lore For September.
September is an important month to
the fower-culturist. A practical florist
makes the following notes which may
be OF service to those who have had less
experience:
Give no plants a dirty pot.-Fall
planting is the bestfo o lilies.-This is a
good time for sodding lawns.-Asters
make fine window pot-plants at this
season. -Every flower looks the best
backed by its own foliage.
Moss in a lawn indicates that the soil
is either poor or wet. -Ivy-leaved ger
aniums are among the best of window
plants. Calculate on lifting all tender
pot-plants before the month is out
Preparations should be made towards
getting hyacinths and other Dutch
bulbs planted soon.
Remove the annual plants as soon as
their beauty is over, excepting those for
seed.-The same Towering bulb never
blooms but once, future flowers coming
from a ley progeny.
Aim to grow window-plants with
good, healthy foliage, and they will be
hands ONE even without fowers.-Lovers
of flowers are a happy people, never fail
ing in each month to find something
new to delight them.-If c~hrysanthe-
NUNS receive an occasional dose OF
liquid manure after the buds have set,
the increased bloom later will pay for
the attention.
It is worth while TO take special
pains to protect summer flowers against
the first frosts, for usually after these
we have a good deal of fine, warm
weather.
The planting of memorial trees, com
memorative of births or other events,
is a beautiful custom that should be in
creased.
A mass of crocuses or snow drops
cannot be ws}l-grown in enc year They
should be planted in the fall months,
giving them a place whore they may re-
main undisturbed for half a decade at
least.
In an atmosphere that is moist enough
to suit plant-l life, fower-pots get green
in time, In washing such, if little
chloride of lime be put in the water, it
will be q longer time before they wilt
become green again.
Geraniums that are lifted, potted and
cut back to about one-third OF each
branch, and then kept in a cool, light
and airy place, but where it never
freezes, will flower handsomely about
midwinter or later,
A glass filled with triternas, or fame
flowers, cut at from one to three feet
long with ricinus or acanthus leaves
forms an attractive table ornament. 1t
should be stood on an opened paper,
however, because of the defect OF this
flower, in showering down minute par
ticles OF sticky moisture.
One great secret of keeping plants
free from insects is to keep them healthy.
There is something about a healthy plant
that insects do not like, and such a n
| will seldom be badly troubled; never if
| sickly ones are near for them to get up
on. Health depends mostly on diet,
light and air, and if these points will be
more studied and physichingg less, the
| plants will be better off.
Propagation by cuttings is an easily
accomplished and delightful means OF
raising new plants. and this is the right
season to go about it for getting stock
for next spring. The saucer system is
recommended to amateurs, because OF
its simplicity and certainty. Any uish
that is water-tight and about two incls-
es deep and filled nearly v g full OF
sand, will answer as to equipments.
Into this. cuttings made from the ends
| of shoots, and with the leaves OF the
| lower parts that go into the sand cut
| of, should be inserted. placing them SO
| close together as almost to touch. Set
the saucer thus filed in o sunny win
dow, and supply it with enough water
at all times to keep the sand just cover
ed. In from one to three weeks de-
| pending on the kinds, roots will appear.
To determine when this takes place
exactly, the cuttings of the different
kinds should be examined from time to
time, and as soon as roots, however
| small. appear on any. the cutting should
be potted, Set them in light earth, In
rather small pots at first. They should
| also be shaded lightly from the sun for
a week, as now, with the soil not satur-
| ated to the extent the sand in the sau
Ger was, they would, if unshaded, flag
to their injury. After growth begins,
the young plants should have as sunny
q place as can DO provided for them,
and all through the winter.