The Delta independent., 1910-03-18
NOTES ABOUT FLOWERS.

duced which were found worthy of
recognition by the American Rose
Society, whose annual bulletin has
been published The new beauties
are White Killarney and My Mary
land. The society has offered prizes
for the production OF the best spec
linens of this and for other new va
| rieties.
1t is not generally known that
plants grown from seeds do not al
ways produce flowers of the par
ent plant. Flowers sport away from
their original type as much as do
apples and peaches. We bought and
sowed some Abutilon seeds last year
and were rewarded by getting one
giant Abutilon which persists in
making wood and leaf instead of
under the same conditions as it has,
flowers. Royal Scarlet produces,
four times as many flowers as it
does.
A newly discovered plan for fore
ing plants for securing blooms out
of season, consists of immersing
shoots by inversion in water at
temperature of eighty-six to ninety
five degrees for nine or twelve hours
and afterward keeping the plants in
a dark, moist chamber at a temper
ature of eighty-five to ninety degrees
until the leaves begin to appear. af-
ter which the plants are grown un-
der ordinary greenhouse conditions.
Lilacs. azaleas and spiraeas treated
thus during the middle of November
were in bloom at Christmas or ear
ly in January.
To .aise fine sweet peas it is well
| to make a trench or furrow early in
the season and SOW the peas March
9TH in double row in this furrow.
If possible, the furrow should run
north and south The ridge on
either side protects the young plants
from the cold spring winds. Avoid
deep planting of the peas. When the
plants begin to grow, hill them up
thus keeping the soil cool and
moist about the roots and enabling
them to withstand drOuth. Furnish
a support OF chicken wire as soon
as the vines start. To keep up a
constant display of bloom cut the
flowers freely and do not allow seed
pods to form seed.
| The hardy aster should have a
place in all our farm gardens. 1t
is wonderfully profuse bloomer-
II is late bloomer and gener-
ally full of flowers when cold wea-
ther sets in. The large varieties
often reach a height of seven and
eight feet in soil of only ordinary
richness. 1t has quite a wide range
of colors-white. pale blue, laven-
der. rosy violet and dark blue.
Those who are not familiar with
this flower should not get the i'm
preston from its name that it is
like or in any way a member of the
annual aster family. Its flowers
have a row of narrow petals similar
to those of the old single aster
with a similar yellow disc but there
the resemblance ends. this aster
has a much smaller flower and its
peculiar petal arrangement gives ii
a fringy beauty to which the man
ual refers.
II is quite common for those who
have Chinese wistaria vines to won
der why il is that they are so long
coming into a Towering condition
and sometimes il is surmised that
there may be more than one variety.
AS nearly all the vines sold are
seedlings. IL is not unlikely there
may be some variation in their char
acter. but the fact is that this vine
takes a half dozen or more years
before it begins to bear. often lon
ger, and. too. its Towering largely
depends on where ii is planted If
in a position favorable to extensive
growth, more years will pass be
fore Towering than If the position
We're one where growth was ham
pered in the way of supports for a
lengthy growth. Tied to stake or
grown as. bush. it flowers much
sooner than If set to reach the top
of three story building. While
there is work to do in the way of
growing. there is little disposition to
flower. and the differences displayed
in the time of Towering that so
many notice. is more likely to come
from the causes named than from
any variation in the species.
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