outflow was a long meter coming this yr . As a upshot , it now look as though a few Peonies will be in blossom north of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers before June . Attention is call to the May Peony Tips , many of which are also applicable to June .
crop often enough to keep weeds down and the soil light . Water in copiousness is necessary for the ok blush and proper industrial plant ontogenesis . Remove all faded blooms promptly . Do not permit the seminal fluid to mature unless you need it . Trim the plants back slightly to make them more presentable in the summer garden , but never abridge them down to the ground until late pin .
Choose varieties now
Blooming time is the good metre to select miscellanea for gloam planting . Visit one or more expert Peony accumulation . Choose the types , colors , and habit you like best and purchase consequently . unexampled varieties have been introduced by the hundreds in the past twenty long time . Many improvements have been made in singles and Japs . Better colors , better habits , and better bloomers have derive .
worm do lilliputian damage to Peonies as a rule . pismire chaffer the buds because of the dearest they transude , and they sometimes carry disease .
Borers on occasion figure a stalk and do it to collapse . Damage is usually done before we know the borer is there .
Rose bugs in overrun communities do much damage to bloom . practice any remedy you may sleep together . Thrips put down many blooms , specially the very dual previous blossom .
Diseases take their toll sometimes . bar is the best remedy . strip the landscape grounds and finish will do more than add chemicals to prevent any disease . practice occasional spraying of Bordeaux to be on the safe side .
When leaves wilt
keep an eye on your plants and if you see leaf wilt , do n’t waitress until they color and die , but find out the cause . It may be just deficiency of water . If so , supply it . A jetty may have burrow under your plant and left it suspend in his burrow . Investigate , fill the burrow , and destroy the mole , if potential . One of several root rot may have assault your plant . Examine the root and if it prove signs of disease , dig the plant , reduce out all pathologic parts , disinfect the root with formaldehyde , a quarter of a cup to 3 gallons of water , leaving the root in the resolution for two or three hour , and plant in fresh filth . Burn the pathological parts of the etymon . If the plant is very bad affected or an inexpensive one , burn off it .
Leaf spot
Several kinds of leafage office may appear , which Bordeaux will prevent . Diseased farewell should be take away and burned , if they are not too numerous , but do not cut down the leafage too much as these spots do not permanently injure the plant unless they take complete possession of it . Be sure to burn all leave of absence and stems in the fall . Small oval spots often come on the stems , but they are not fatal . Crowded plants and smother with weeds are the most frequent causa of diseases of leave and stems . These reason are well remove .
White fungus
Often in dry weather , a white fungus - alike emergence will spread over the roots . This is said not to be dangerous . It was much in grounds last class . But it does feign the prow and poll , making them face like rotted woodwind instrument of a xanthous hue . Again , the only remedy is good cultivation and treating septic theme if you care with the methanal or bichloride solutions .
By G. W. PEYTON
