Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-05

Store your cllrysanthemum plants
that have finished blooming in a
cool place. Even q, .coldframe, in
which there is only an occasional
frost, can be used for this purpose.
Gala plants will require plenty of
light room and water to produce
good growth and fine flowers. They
nre heavy feeders, and frequent APP
plicatlons of manure water will be
beneficial
Bring into heat now Easter lily
bulbs wanted for Easter blooming.
Give them light place and a tenn
perature of 80 degrees at night.
When storing summer towering
bulbs. such as gloxinia, tuberous-
rooted begonias and achimenes. Sc
lect dry place having a tempera-
ture of about 50 degrees.
If you want to keep your Indian
azeleas for late winter and early
spring blooming store chem in o.
light, cool place. ..,..s8..
Forget-me-nots, if taken ap and
stored in a coldfranne until after the
holidays, can be forced into bloom
In the greenhouse.
Give the blooming plants of hello
trope and geraniums in the green
house or window garden an occasion
al watering Of liquid fertilizer
Sow pansy seeds now for sum-
mer blooming plants in cool places.
II you want carnation plants for
towering next winter they should be
propagated now. Early cuttings
will make the best specimens.
If your pelargoniums, which have
been cut back, have started into
growth they should be repotted when
the growths are an inch long. The
same pots may be used but fresh
soil is essential.
Store oleanders and century plants
over winter in a dry, cool, FROST
proof cellar. They should be given
little water occasionally
In the vegetable garden, ridge UP
the soil IL you want to combat with
next years crop of insects. This
gives the frost q better chance to
Brussels sprouts are hardy. and dc
not need housing, but should have 8
little straw about them for protec-
tion during the severe weather.
As the weather grows colder give
little more covering to the vege-
tables stored in pits and trenches out
Of doors.
In the flower garden this is a good
time to do lot of nlulching.
If the rhododendrons have not been
mulched, attend to the matter al
once. Leaves may be used II packed
on in q layer four to six inches deep
To protect the foliage of the rhodo-
dendrons from burning, cover it with
evergreen boughs or put up wooden
shields on the southwest side. This
is insurance against danger by bleak
winds and by sunburn.
To mulch the roses use a half
decayed straWy manure, placed Siz
inches deep around the plants. The
more tender varieties. especially the
tea roses, should, OF course, be
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have severe weather.
In the fruit garden as soon as the
ground freezes mulch the strawberry
plants with straw, .strawy manure OF
other litter.
Blackberries and raspberries should
be laid down and covered with soil
This may be done by bending the tops
down, loosening the ground on one
side and throwing few shovelfuls OF
earth over the canes.
1t is a wise practice to stake all
! newly set trees to prevent their being
| blown over by high winds or tipped
over by heavy SHOWS.
Tramp the snow around fruit tree
trunks to protect them from mice
which viii burrow on the surface OF
! the ground.
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