A Guide To Making Of Spring Gardens 1923 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from A Guide to Making of Spring Gardens, 1923 The Peonies are among the noblest and most magnificent of our herbaceous plants. They are the Queen of Spring Flowers, and are well adapted for massing in beds, and particularly valuable for planting in groups throughout the perennial or shrubbery border, where their brilliant hues add beauty to the entire surroundings. Their requirements are so simple, - a good, rich, deep soil; they are perfectly hardy, and produce their. Wealth of flowers in great abundance. Time TO plant: Peonies may be planted with perfect safety any time from the middle of August till the ground freezes in the Fall, and in the early Spring until growth has advanced too far. September is the best time, as they then make a root growth before Winter sets in, usually bloom ing the following Spring. After being transplanted, Peonies will not produce typical blooms the first season, many fine double varieties throwing single or semi-double flowers, and it is not until the third year that the finest flowers are produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.