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The garden centermost had a arresting banal that year. The plants were able and in abounding bloom, absolute for the distinctively able patch. All flowers were bankrupt off with aloof a few buds accustomed to abide in hopes that the plants would authorize a able basis system. Special affliction was taken to set the plants anxiously in the arena so their “necks” were aloof as adobe level. Too abysmal burying could accomplishment off the pansies bound as these plants abound from crowns.
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The appliance was kept clammy and as anon as the roots were established, a ablaze agriculture of baptize acrid fertilizer was added already a week. New annual buds formed, the plants grew enormous. Faded flowers were best off about every added day. Beginning connected able-bodied into July, back the calefaction was aloof too abundant for man or plant. With a ages for beaching acclimate for the agriculturalist and a air-conditioned admixture of blade admixture for the pansies, achievement for a additional division of blossom grew as the ages of August began to air-conditioned down. The plants were fed already again, kept clammy and to everyone's delight, beginning began afresh and connected able-bodied into September.
Most of the acclaim for this success belongs to the berry growers. Remarkable advance has been fabricated with Viola tricolor in the accomplished few years. Breeders in this country as able-bodied as Japan accept fabricated improvements in annual size, acclimate attrition and avant-garde the beginning division so the big blitz of flowers is aboriginal afore the hot weather. Blush Festival is one of the ancient strains. Some of the best chichi varieties to attending for this bounce are the Mammoth Giants, the Paramount alternation and Imperial Giants. Plants should be actualization at garden centers now. The Mammoths are decidedly ambrosial as they are absolutely tricolored with arrangement that anatomy the adorable chichi faces, rather than aloof a blemish of color.
Those who appetite to accept an absorbing claiming can try to abound pansies from seed. Sown outdoors in aboriginal August, the plants will attain athletic admeasurement by aboriginal fall. If mulched heavily and if winters are advantaged by a blast blanket, the pansies aloof ability accomplish it through to annual aboriginal abutting spring. Or those who would rather not adventitious it, can move the adolescent chichi plants to the apartment of a coldframe for the winter months and bulb them outdoors as anon as the arena has broiled out.
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Questions/Answers
POISONOUS PLANTS
Where can I access abundant informtion about poisonous plants? I accept two adolescent accouchement and appetite to be abreast on the subject. Mrs. G.S., Buffalo, N.Y.
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Two accomplished bulletins are available. “Common Poisonous Plants” by John M. Kingsbury, Information Bulletin 104, 50 cents per archetype postpaid from Cornell University, Mailing Room A, 7 Research Park, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853; the March/ April, 1974 affair of Arnoldia, a bimonthly, $1. per archetype postpaid from Arnold Arboretum, Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 02130.
WILD GARLIC IN THE LAWN
Do you apperceive of a antidote to annihilate the abhorrent edger agrarian garlic from the lawn? M.C.F., Lancaster, Pa.?
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This is a abiding bounce catechism back this edger is usually one of the aboriginal to accomplish its appearance. The edger is a abiding annular herb‐an onion‐that is accustomed throughout all but the northernmost sections of the New England States, southward to Florida and beyond to Texaas. The edger forms bulblets underground and affairs up the acme leaves the bulbs underground to abide to access and arise every spring. The best way to eradicate the edger is to aerosol alone clumps of agrarian garlic with 2,4‐D as aboriginal in the bounce as possible, back the edger aboriginal appears. Repeat afresh the afterward spring. The additional appliance will beating out the anew formed bulbs of this year's growth. This double‐attack should ascendancy the weed. Spot spraying may be bare a third year, but the aggregate of the advance should be eradicated in two years. The edger is advanced of wet soils, thrives in adobe and makes a active nuisance of itself
SOIL BEADS
I bought a bird's backup bracken in January and noticed white chaplet actualization on the apparent of the soil. I accept transferred them to a terrarium and achievement I am incubating spores. Am I appropriate and how do I proceed? C.B., Long Island City.
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We doubtable the white chaplet are particles of perlite, an apathetic silica‐type artefact acclimated to lighten potting adobe mixtures and to basis cuttings. Bracken spores are dustlike and difficult to see.
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