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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
6
The article urges planning before planting noting the front must be kept open and lawn space used to frame the home. It recommends grouping shrubs two and a half feet apart, varying heights for a wave effect, avoiding heavy evergreens on small lawns, and placing trees to provide shade and background. It covers walk placement, border bedding, spring bulbs planted in fall, and mulching to protect winter roots.
Sweet peas prefer cool seasons and should be sown in fall or early spring. Plant in a trench with water supply, mulch with soil as it grows, and provide a trellis of poultry netting. Water copiously in dry weather and harvest pods before they mature for longer bloom.
Practical guidance on selecting high quality seeds, preparing a mellow seed bed, and proper germination. It covers seed depth, shading tiny seeds, soil moisture, and temperature needs, plus thinning and weed control to ensure healthy, vigorous flowering plants.
The pansy thrives in cool, half shaded, rich friable soil and benefits from seed pod removal to extend summer bloom. For early flowers sow in a cold frame or window box in November, or start in September and transplant to the permanent bed in April. Mulch with straw or pine needles before winter to protect from heaving and thawing. The variety has improved greatly with excellent market strains available.
Fragrant lilies of the valley flourish in shaded beds and become a lasting garden feature. Plant in clumps, letting them spread gradually. favorites for spring and summer greenery, with a brief flowering period.
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