Plants: Plant Information gathered from Experience--(odds and ends) by a Horticultural Nut Case (notes)

One of the few fragrant tulips, Prince of Austria, of orange scarlet shades--if you can find it

The bulbs of spanish Irises should be lifted every two years, in August, dried, sorted into sizes, and replanted in October…

In your next order of daffodils get some from the Trumpet Daffodil--choose some of the Bicolor Group

Gladioli may be increased by taking care of the small corms, storing them in a paper bag for there winter and planting in boxes of soil in spring…

Campanula carpatica--this showy blue flowered plant blooms from early July for many weeks if faded flowers are cut off...

A pinch of mustard, half a teaspoonful to a quart of water in watering house plants will destroy insects of many kinds and will not harm even the most tender of plants…

Prune all roses bushes as soon as they stop blooming ..Not to prune the bushes will result in many shoots and very poor flowers… It is only on the young laterals that the best roses appear...

Remember that wood ashes are excellent for the rose bushes…A hole should be dug her the roots of the rose and the ashes buried within…Putting it on as will do no good at all... a top dressing

Sheep Manure is a Splendid fertilizer for roses..It may be mixed with hardwood ashes, which are also beneficial, and both applied at the same time...

**Scarlet sage is one of the most satisfactory of autumn flowers…I t makes a good plant for window boxes, for pots, and for cutting in decorating.As a hedge or border plant it cannot be surpassed--unusual

Silene --The seed should be sown in August in the cold frame and the young plants transplanted to the garden when frost is out of the ground…The plants should be set four or five inches apart, or they may be planted for mass effect or in rows…They require light, well-drained soil--acid side.In cold climates they should be covered with a thin layer of leaves like they normally receive in their natural location on banks on the side of roads--Silene mixed with german iris makes an attractive combination..If plants are kept moist, they will continue blossoming until late in the season…They do not like a situation in strong sunlight...

It is important that the soil be moist when applying plant food in solution...

Annuals and Perennials that bloom in April:

Alyssum

Antirrhinum (Snapdragon)

Calendula

Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower)

Dicentra (Bleedingheart)

Eschscholtzia (Cal. poppy)

Hemerocalis flava

Iberis (Candytuft)

Iris (Bearded and Bulbous)

Larkspur