Letter Box.
In this department we shall be pleased to answer any questions relating to Flowers, Vegetables and Plants, or to publish the experiences of our readers. James Vick.
Lady Washington and Other Plants.
I see by your September Magazine that you want the experience of anyone that has had good success with Lady Washington geraniums. I had good success with mine. I used as a fertilizer ground oil cake worked into the soil. It was a year-old plant and had five bunches of bloom with five pansy-like flowers in each bloom. They only bloom once a year. I also used the oil cake on an ivy-leaved geranium and its growth was beyond my expectations, for in a year’s time it was eighteen feet long. All plants I have used it on have done exceedingly well.
Mrs. N. G.
Lane, Kansas.
Roses in Kansas.
I would like to know what manure that the farm can furnish to use for the bed of Monthly roses, also, must they be pruned or cut back the first year, and what treatment must I give them in the winter here in Kansas? Must I cut off all branches and cover the roots or wrap the branches?
Mrs. M.
Dig into the bed every spring a heavy dressing of well rotted stable manure. Protect the plants in winter with a covering of leaves or branches of evergreens, prune in spring and when needed at other times, so as to get a good growth of new wood.