Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-10-07

FALL GARDENING.
October, like March, is a busy month
for the gardener, and one of the mos
delightful for those who love out-of-dool
life. The fruit is to be gathered; but
after the good old rule, let apples and
grapes hang just as long as there are
leaves to protect them from light frosts
as it improves the flavor.
All the plants for the house are to be
ported early in the month, but kept Out
Of doors-On the porch, under tree, OF
under some shelter where frost cannot
nip them-where they can make roo
and thrive.
Bake and sift all potting-soil, to kill
the Larvae of insects in it, and pile 1t II
the sun for week to sweeten it.
Start bulbs and plants the first of this
month for Christmas Towering. Roman
hyacinths and freesias, the stars-Of
Bethlehem and cottage maid tulips art
lovely arrivals in winter among the
blooming window-roses and fuchsias.
Put the bulbs in shallow pots or pans
with plenty of light, rich, fibrous sol
over them, sprinkle with warm water
and set them away in the dark to sprout
When the green shoots are an inch II
height give them all the sunshine posi-
BILE, remembering that the early morn
ing sunshine makes plants grow, ant
keep your bulbs in an east window
changing to the south as the sun goes
round.
Take up all plants for winter blooming
as early as you please, but do not be in ;
hurry to house them. They make
stronger growth out of doors, and bloom
better when the time comes. Cove
them on windy or cool nights, and OF
days when the thermometer drops be
low forty-five degrees. Wind and chill
and sudden changes check the circula
ton of plants, and injure their tende
tissues in way which hinders thei
growth for weeks.
The best way to protect plants whel
the supply of old barrels and baskets
gives out is to have stakes taller thar
the plant stuck in each pot, and throw
an old sheet or bit of burlap over all
securing it by tying it around the pot
rim. Large newspapers can be pinned
around in the same way, but it is well t
have full supply of covers of some sor
ready as the days grow cooler.
Tea-roses need protection for the sea
son before the first light frosts. A goot
way is to surround the bed or plant will
wire netting two or three feet high, ant
fill in with dead leaves. To have tn
delicious blooms as long as possible, pu
layer of leaves about the roots up II
the first branches, holding it down will
strong netting pegged to the ground, o
by light sitting of earth. With shee
placed over the bushes on cool night
the Bon Silenes, Papa Gontiers and l.;
Frances will keep buds and blooms lat
into November if sheltered.
Cord netting dipped in linseed oil
then dried, is useful for so many pur
poses in a garden that one marvels hov
a yard of string is ever suffered to b.
thrown away. All the string tax
en- from parcels, wound in balls, make
easy work for fingers both young and old
and when woven into garden netting
duly oiled, will last for several seasons
Much of the garden moves to tn
veranda this month. Tender things lik
helitropes and tardy tuberoses and lemon
verbenas should come up before an.
frost, and finish blooming superbly OIL
the south porch. If care is taken the.
can be lifted at any stage of bloom with
out turning leaf, but it would take
chapter to illustrate that little phrase
"pntting with care" should not dar
to write the above paragraph if expert
ence had not taught me to lift lemon
verbenaS, five feet high, and enOrmou
heliotropes without loss. Mignonette
tendereSt and most sensitive of plant
about moving, can be potted from tn
garden in bloom and not know it. AM
what is lovelier than great pot o
mignonette seeming sunny hall in win
ter? A Cherokee rose in full bloom, say
a voice in answer. Well, it is novelt.
for a house-plant but the Short Hill
growers, who make specially of tn
rose, say it can be easily kept in the liv
ing rooms for winter blooming. TIL
Japanese rose, r. Wichuriana, trained t
trellis like ivy, makes the most beaut
| full window-screen when starred with it
large, single, white waxen blooms.
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most ordinary geraniums and cacti. Yo
will, and you may as we'll, have the fines
bloom and perfume for your labor.
Liberty rose, magnificence itself in deep
brilliant color, and delicious in scent
half dozen pots of carnations, an
some tall chrysanthemums to stand o.
the floor, will give such elegance to
NOON, onl cnoh raf,rn for nara 90 nav
for lifting and sprinkling and keepin
off dust.
Chrysanthemum sprouts, six inche
high with roots, as they grow at the has
of large plants, may be ported separately
and bloom in January. For this the
need soil rank with richness, and water
ing twice a week with "plant-food''
the water. All fertilizing liquid mus
be poured at the roots only; not dro
should touch the leaves, for it burn
them.
Very common garden-plants max
lovely hanging baskets when CAREFUL
treated. A sweet alysSum and flint
leaved tradescantia grown together ar
simply exquisite. A salpiglossis, wit
its myriad-streaked flowers of ever
lovely shade-in rose, crimson, ivOr
and violet-grown as a specimen plant
with only ivies in the same window,
matchleSs magnificence. A window fu
of snapdragons or Of stocks in varyin
colors will be wonder all the winter
for if watered with fertilizer and til
flowers cut at the first sign of droOpin
they will keep bloom and SAVIOR for
season.
have seen a purple and white petuni
grown together till their silken, delicate
scented bloom seemed one of the dainties
effects of the gardeners skill, and fe,
orchids conld compare with their relief
of color. Three misunderstanding
pink. and white, or. white and pin
streaked-in a pan together make ma
of blossom which can be counted on t
last all winter. To grow such plant
successfully indoors one needs very rio
soil, and frequent sprinkling, victim
the plants five or six times day with
whisk-broom dipped in water and shak
en- over them. 1t is trouble, perhap.
but the growth they make is surprising
l-Woman's Home Companion.
WHAT ONE WOMAN THINKS