Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-22
1eaiIp 1e,rnsber journal.
Flowers and the Lawn.

Start madeira vines.
Start some tuberoses.
Oxalises are in bloom.
Prune evergreen hedges.
Wood ashes suit the lawn.
Trim the unshapely plants.
New lawns should be made early.
For shady places plant periwinkle.
Carnations don't require much heat.
Plant lilies early and cover six Aches
deep.
Camelias must have their leaves ire
quently sponged off from now on.
Plenty of sunshine helps fragrance as
well as color.
Divide up the gladiolus into about five
lots, and plant these at three weeks apart.
If bare spots exist on the lawn. scratch
over them with the rake and SOW in some
grass seed at once.
Young bedding plants ea4 receive no
better treatment now than admission into
good hot bed.
In raising such rapid growing climbers
as German ivy and maurandia, much an
poyance can be saved and handsomer
plants result, by keeping them plnched
back to a bush form while they are in pots.
Verbenas from seed.-Many persons
who have no luck with verbenas bought
in the greenhouse would succeed with
seed grown ones. Seedlings possess
much greater vigor of constitution, and
are less liable to disease than the others.
1t is still time to start the seed. which may
be done either at the window in pots, af-
forwards transplanting, or directly in the
flower beds.
Stocky Vegetable Plants-To have such,
crowding must be prevented. The mex
perienced generally SOW seeds too thickly
and spindling plants are the unavoidable
result, unless thinning is practised. One
of the advantages of sowing in drills over
broadcast sowing is that thinning is easily
done. Most vegetable plants transplant
easily, and there is no better way to grow
excellent stocky plants than to take up
the young seedlings after they show their
second leaves, and reset them in nicely
prepared soil at about two inches apart
both WAYS, Not only will they thus be
encouraged to grow stocky, but the roots
by the transplanting operation will be in
a more compact mass, and hence better
adapted to meet the final transplanting.
Some Choice Trees and Shrubs. Where
there are hundreds of fine sorts to select
from, it is not always easy to decide on a
few. For six fine ornamental trees we
would name cut-leaved weeping birch, red
Towering horse chestnut, European linden,
oak leaved mountain ash and the Kilmar-
mock. or the American weeping willow.
For II Towering shrubs to bloom from
April until September hardly better Sc
lection could be had than one each of
forsythia vlridissima, scarlet Japan ounce,
Towering plum, large Towering bush
honey suckle. spirea lancelata, virburnum
plicatum, weigelia rose. lilac josik9a,
double deutzia, Douglass spirea, althea
and the paniele lowered hydrangea.
Pruning Roses. These when allowed to
remain unpruned for a few years. as a
rule, present bad appearance. AS no
flowers are produced on wood that is more
than two years old, the primer should
have in mind to prune some old wood
away every year. to be replaced by new
shoots The Oldest parts of common
kinds may now be cleaned out down to
near the ground. The last years shoots
in all bush kinds, except the moss and
yellow roses, should be headed back to
three or four eyes each. These last ones
need less pruning than any others, unless
the climbers are excepted. In such as
these-and of course all others-any wood
that has turned black during the winter,
must come away.