Arizona republican., 1915-09-05
Landscape Gardening In
 Arizona
(BY F. c. NicNabb)

t green carpet, which grows luXuriant :
 ly in the Bermuda bed until replaced
 by the summer growth of Bermuda
 grass, thus giving a green lawn the
 year around with but the original
 expense of Bermuda and Australian Ryye and Australian Rye once a year
 thereafter.
 While preparing the lawn it is well
 to make ready for flower beds by l spading in plenty of well routed man ure and thoroughly incorporating it
 with the soil, so that by October 1st the beds are in fine condition for planting. Too much care cannot be
 exercised in this preparation. for flower seeds being delicate require ! special attention, particularly in this
 climate After October 1st plant bor-
 ders of sweet aIyssum ageratum, i calendula. etc: SOW beds of caliopsis, i candytuft, bachelor button, poppies ] larkspur, scarlet flax, mignonnette i pansy, phlax stocks, sweet peas, and i in fact the complete list of flower seeds. with the exception of a very | few tender annuals.
 Of the flower seeds to be planted
 at this time perhaps the sweet pea 1 is the most popular, and we will therefore give it first consideration i Tor the Salt River Valley October 1 18th should be designated Sweet Pea i day, for Sweet Peas planted at this l time are the finest of the year. No flowers are more popular or more 1 easily grown than are Sweet Peas and although one may be d novice, success is reasonably sure if the cul-
 tural directions given here are care
 fully followed. Select your space
 along the fence or where the vines can be trained up and dig a trench
 about two feet wide, and IS inches
 deep, putting the surface soil to it.
 self and the subsoil where it can
 be thoroughly mixed with well routed
 manure, and straw to facilitate
 drainage, and act as a fertilizer. Re
 place the sub-soil and cover with
 the surface soil to which should be added a sprinkling of fine bone fer
 tilizer. open a trench across the bed about six inches deep, and bank up on both sides and end of the spaded area to hold water. Plant one ounce of seed to fifteen feet of drill, and cover about one inch, packing the. soil well to the seed. and leaving a loose mulch on topp. After peas are up, pull the dirt to them, gradually. filling the small trench to the sur face level. but still leaving them banked to facilitate watering until they are well started Frequent cul- tivatiOn is important and after peas are ten to twelve inches high a mulch of fine manure should be applied to the surface This will aid in holding moisture, and will leave the surface in fine condition after cultivation.
 A good method to use in watering sweet peas is to sub-irrigate from ditch F to 15 inches from the vines which will allow frequent cutiva- tion, and at the same time enable enc to keep them well watered. which is very necessary.
 Wire netting affords an excellent trellis, and it should be placed by the time the tiny tendrils make their first appearance, as it is important that the vines attach themselves from the ground up to better enable them to withstand damaging winds, and their own weight
 I recommend planting only the ] Spencer and Unwin types. These i are the very large Towering varie- ties. many of which are born on | stems ten to 16 inches long. The ! flowers are of extraordinary size, ! often two inches in diameter, with | wavy standard and wide spreading i wings, a large number of the flow CTS coming four on a single stem. IL seems possibe.tto make any improvement on the spencer types, 1 yet it is being done each year. Some i of the latest and most popular var ieties now being, Margaret Atalee, pink. Clara Custer, white, and Scar let Emperor. All of which are the latest improvements in an assortment of colors, and in the Barbaret in trOduced two years ago for the first time, we get a shade of pink that has never been known in any other Sweet Pea. The Towering period of Sweet Peas may be gratly prolonged by cutting each day. being careful not to leave any flowers to produce seed pods for when once they suc- ceed in setting pods they have done their duty, and soon cease blooming.
 Christmas Towering Varieties
 The Christmas, or Forcing varie- ties of Sweet Peas are quite distinct from the other types, being an extra early race, Towering early in winter at a time when the larger types will
 
 the summer they may be had in full bloom by Christmas and though we appreciate them at that time of the year. they are somewhat disappoint- ng. for they are small fIowered and are produced on very short stems. The vines rarely growing more than three feet high.
 From October 1st to January 1st he following list of flower seeds may 1e planted, Ageratum, Alyssum, Double Daisy, Calendu- "a, Caliopsis, Campamula, Candy uft, Carnations, Corn Flower, Sweet Sultan, Corropsis, Cosmos Delphi 1um, Dianthus, Fox Glove, California Topples, Gailliardia Gypsophila, He ichrysum, Hollyhocks, Larkspur, | Everlasting Peas, Scarlet Flax. Afri- ,an Marigold, Mignonette, Four O'Clocks, -Forget-me- -nots. Nastur- ium Pansy, Phlox, Topples, Shasta Daisy, Stocks, Verbena and Violets.
 During January Salvia Splendens ,r Scarlet Sage Scabiosa (Norning