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GARDENING NOTES.
WHAT TO CULTIVATE THIS seedlings,"
'MONTH.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 156" 1928.
ground which should be well] manured. Obtain and plant cut- tings, keeping them well watered."
put it, "when I and the sun too hot for me to work in my garden, I know it is time to shade my
November is a good month "for" It will be found that the work this. The ground should not be to be done In the garden increases allowed to dry up as this will react as the time goes on. Some of the on the succulence of the plants. acede sown last month will be Examine all pots and ground for quite ready for pricking off into pests, such de caterpillars, ants, pane, boxes or nurgebeds, and to- red spiders, anails, etc. The re- is the time when amateur garden-wards the ead of the month yousult of ridding the various places will be kept busy putting out of these, is well worth the time ex- seedlings from sowings made at ponded. Contributed, the beginning.
Hongkong Horticniturol Show usually takes place about the beginning of March, but, this ors must get really busy if they would become exhibitore or wish to have a good show of flowers or vegetables of their own growing during the winter months,
September and October are the busiest months of the year for local gardeners and it a during these months that practically all seeds should be sown. "It will be remembered that a light soll is preferable for most seeds that careful crocking and drainage are essentials. There are also other points to be remembered, and one cannot be too careful in matters of detail where young seedlings are concerned. In the first place do not sow your sced too thickly, If the seed is good and you have made no mistakes, you may ren- sonably expect that 60% to 70% will germinate,
It is a mistake to leave seedlings cularly if they are at all crowded, too long in the seed pans, parti- and as a general rule they should be pricked off as soon as they can be safely handled.
Hongkong 'Good for Stocks,
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Peak Flowers.
"And some can pot begonias and
some can buď a rose, 2.. And some are hardly fit to trust But they can roll and trim the
with anything that grows,
lawns and afft the sand and loam,
For the Glory of the Garden oc- cupieth all who come."—Kip-
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Stocks can be grown in Hong- kong to perfection, but they re- quire a good deal of care. The Provided you can find a spot Beauty of Nice varieties give good sheltered from the wind, you can results. They require a fairly rich make an attractive garden on the well drained. soll and a sunny Peak, and have flowers all the airy situation. These plants, how-year round. Most Peak gardens over, resent movement and are checked by transplanting.
Mignonette, like the stock, is tap rooted and if transplanting in It is a very common fault, par.necessary it should be done when
the plants are small, ticularly with Chinese jahwongs, to Bow too thickly and the inavit- Pansies and violas are quite able result is overcrowding. An easy to grow, but they are often otherwise perfectly successful sow-very slow and Irregular in ger-nner man. If you dispense with Ing may come to grief entirely, minating. They like a rich soil; from this cause alone. The young and slags and snails are their seedlings in the first place get worst enemies. drawn up for want of light, and air, and are then very apt to damp | off or to get scorched by the first touch of a hot sun. A dozen or two robust seedlings (which in many cases is perhaps all that is required) is far better than twice or thrice the number of weaklings Violets should be divided and which have to be watched and the strong vigorous growths which coddled in order to keep them come from the base of the old alive, only to prove ultimately dis-planta will give the Ancat flowers, appointing to the grower.
are a pathetic sight, consisting of LONDON SERVICE rows of plants in pot. This is "ACHILLES" mainly due to the presence of a Chinese fahwong, whose one idea in SARPEDON life is to put everything into pots. Even if the garden possesses any beds of earth, these are strictly re- served for vegetables to supply the Pet plants entirely and make beds for your flowers, it simplifles the work, and the result is not to be compared with "thể usual" "pot nursery" which one meets.
Hints on Watering.
The Marguerites. salvia and hellotrope cutlings propagated last month will now he strong plants, and should be ready for planting out or placing In their permanent pots before the end of the month.
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soil, and this can be improved by Every garden possesses some adding line, ashes etc. The black hill-side earth is useless without the addition of lime. For the edging of your flower Leds, you can usually and plenty of attrac tive stones.
in August, but I know of one Most Peak gardens are very dull
Freesia bulbs or corns should which is always at its beat then. now be potted and about 20 to 26 The masses of glistening white in a Chinese 10 inch pot will be zephyranthes, (wind flowers) bor- Watering is another very fm-sufficient. They prefer a light dering the beds and grass, present portant point particularly in the rich soil and should be pressed a reatful picture to one who has case of the finer and more de-gently about half an inch below tolled in the city in the heat of lieate plants. The soil in the the surface.
the day. Growing with the wind seed pots should be kept moist but
Rosea will need pruning to-lowers, are purple achimenes, never sodden or bone dry. The wards the end of the month and Michaelmas daisies, blue plum- watering can used should have the top dressing of manure gently bago and torenias set off by the finest possible гоне otherwise worked in around the roots will be glowing crimson acalapha bushes. young and tender seedlings are beneficial.. liable to be beaten to the ground, and to spend their time recovering from the daily deluge or to perish minorably in the mud.
Very delicate seeds or seedlings may be watered without the use of a watering. can at all, and it is only necesary to immerse the pot in a tub or other receptacle, tak- ing care not to allow the water to splash over the edge, and to let the water to souk through from, thu. bottom of the pot. As soon as the first damp, patch appears on the surface, take the pot out of the water and let it drain. The whole surface will then soon become moist by capillary attraction and the soil will contain just the cor reet degree of moisture, Night dews are beneficial to seedlings but do not confound dew with a Peak for!
flowering) akould be sown in sue Sweet Pens (winter or early cession until November With good weather they will flower Boon after Christmas.. The best sweet peas for Hongkong are the Aus- tralian winter flowering varieties. and time is essential to the soll if a good result is to be obtained.
Vegetable Noter"
Work In September for the vegetable grower meant a good deal of planting out of the various seeds already sown. Great care should be taken to shield them from the heat, also heavy rains.
"Mustard and cress, cabbage, cauliflower, sweet corn, lettuce, carrot, Chinese cabbage (white, or green), celery, radish, beet and marrow may be sown.
Tomatoes should be carefully examined before planting out and any weedy plants discarded.
Celery plants, should be ramov ed from sced pans and transplant ed for nursery purposes.
The rock garden is never with
(a perennial joy) pink, yellow and out some colour, the bright green
white zephyranthes etc.
of sedum, mauve verbena crynoldas
In Murch the rock garden is dressed in mauve and white.
Most people are acquainted with the mauve Japanese fris, which grows so easily, and which re- quires thinning out occasionally, The white Chinese iris la beautiful,
orchid. It resembling an
in- ercases rapidly, and is a native of Chinn. One of the most striking plants out now in this same gar- den Ja the wild mauve orchid. If planted in garden soll, the re- ault is wonderful and you get a fine sturdy plant covered with blossoma, which continues in flow- er for weeks,
Another plant flowering well now, is the Chinese leopard flower, All these flowers are perennials and are easily grown. If you pos sens n shady hillalde, plant on it bulbs of Japanese lilies. Thoy Hower year after year. Cannna are worth growing, also the pink and red China monthly roses It is an well not to plant pots-(they are more often in flower toes. Keep thead for next month. than not). A hedge of the pink It is generally known that climbing rose (rosa multiflora) is watercress may be grown without an arresting sight in April with having swampy ground. All that its masses of pink blossoms.→→ Incal amateur is neessary is a shady piece of Contributed.
Hardening Process. What may be called the harden- ing process is often a difficulty in Hongkong owing to the extreme heat of the sun in the middle of the day. While all plants need more or less sunshine to bring them to perfection young plants may easily get too much. It is difficult to give any rule but as one enthusiastic
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