The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-03
Eoxar.I.ore For September.

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September is an important month to
the flower-culturist. A practical florist
makes the following notes which may
be of service to those who have had less
experience: a
Give no plants a dirty pot.-Fau
planting is the best for 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 it's own foliage.
Moss in o 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 Dor
Remove the annual plants as soon az
their beauty is over, excepting those fol
seed.-The same Towering bulb never
blooms but once, future flowers coming
from a new progeny.
Aim to grow window-plants with
good, healthy foliage, and they will be
handsome even without howers.-Lovers
of flowers are q happy people, never fail
ing in each month to find something
new to delight them.-If c%hrysanthe-
mum receive an occasional dose OF
liquid manure after the buds have set,
the increased bloom later will pay for
the attention. nh8
It is worth while to take special
pains to protect summer flowers against
the first frosts, for usually after these
we have q good deal of fine, warm
weather.
The planting of memorial trees, COM
memorative of births or other events,
is q beautiful custom that should be in
creased.
A mass of crocuses or snow-drops
cannot be well-grown in n year. They
should be planted in the fall months,
giving them a place where they may re-
main undisturbed for half q decade nt
least.
In an atmosphere that is moist enough
to suit plant-life, fower-pcts 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 will
become green again.
Geraniums that are lifted, potted and
cut back to about one-third of each
branch, and her 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. II
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'S something about q healthy plant
that insects do not like, and such a one
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 physicking Jess, 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 ct
its simplicity and certainty. Any dish
that is water-tight and about two inch
cs deep and filled nearly even 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
off, should be inserted. placing them so
close together as almost to touch. Set
the saucer thus filed in q 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 u%nshaded, flag
to their injury. After growth begins,
the young plants should have as sunny
a place as can be provided for them,
and all through the winter.
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