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In tests made by the Department of Agriculture, it has been found that the solution may be made by using five or six teaspoonfuls of one of the ordinary low-analysis mixed garden fertilizers such as a 4-12-4 or a 5-8-5 in a gallon of water. Vigoro is a 4-12-4 and usually obtainable. If the solution [...]

All kinds of seeds may be sown on the moss, fine or large ones, vegetable-as well as flower seeds. Fine seeds are simply pressed into the sphagum, coarser ones are covered with a light sprinkling of the shredded sphagnum. After the seeds are sown, water with a nutrient solution, using the following proportions: Dissolve one [...]

Fill a flat or flower pot with potting soil to within an inch of the top. Rub sphagnum moss through a coarse screen one made of hardware cloth is fine for this. The moss may be slightly dampened first to keep down the dust. Press a 3/4′s inch layer of the shredded sphagnum on top [...]

The enterprising gardener will not hesitate to substitute a new and better method whenever experience suggests the way; he may find it best in some instances, especially on banks that are somewhat rolling rather than severely steep, to substitute the ridge rather than the mound, wherein the plants thrive in a meand “sweet potato-like” ridge. [...]

Asarum is one of the most splendid of “mound plants,” a term, by the way, that is, so far as I know, original with the writer who has his banks (decidedly!) and all the problems appertaining thereto. A series of mounds varying in size from the smaller, say, two feet at the base, tapering to [...]

Although Asarum, so says Wood of the once immensely popular “Botanist and Florist,” is “an ancient name of obscure derivation,” we who are well asquainted with the plant, full name, Asarum canadense, Wild Ginger, admire this hardy woodland ground cover too well to devote Much thought to a trifle like that. Let us say, however [...]

Periwinkle may be grown from seeds or from cuttings. Cuttings grow rapidly. When they get too tall I pinch out the tops to make them bushier. A large bushy ‘plant of mine sported about 30 blossoms open at the same time with more buds ready to open. I can recommend Periwinkle as a good yard [...]

Vinca, rosea, the Periwinkle or Patient Plant, is attractive in the flower border, in window boxes or as a pot plant in the house. It is a good bloomer and comes in assorted colors of salmon, pink and in white. This plant can tolerate, dry or wet weather equally well but should have plenty of [...]

Winters or no winters, Aunt Callie has every sprig of her early garden planted by Good Friday. That’s always her bean planting day. Not until the first whip-poor-will is heard late some evening at dusky dark, does Aunt Litt think about planting beans, corn and other “tenderables.” Explain About Your Interest In Camellia Culture And [...]

Folks are glad to be “done” with old winter. There will be little “spring winters,” lasting for a day, a night or a few hours. The “Easter winter,” which comes during the fulling of the Easter moon, is considered harmless to growing plants because it is “the light of the moon.” In early April, when [...]