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Weeding The Flower Gardens: Apart from encouraging a heavy growth of grass, which discourages weeds but does not necessarily eliminate them, there are several active modes of attack that can be employed. Chiefly they are hand weeding and chemical controls. Don't recoil from mention of hand weeding; it is effective indeed if the lawn is not overrun with weeds. The most weed-free lawns are those gotten into that condition and then main¬tained so by good cultural practices (ferti¬lizing, watering, aerating and so forth) and hand weeding. With a vigorous lawn, a little hand weeding each year will keep it clean. But you must start early. Grub 'em out or kill them while they are tiny. Don't let weeds get to the seeding stage. Then you have raised a crop of headaches for the following season.
In the central square you'll probably see girls of high school age weeding the flower gardens. That is standard procedure in all the garden-parks of the city. In the shopping streets you'll see an extraordinary num¬ber of bookstores and that too is typical of Iceland. There is no illiteracy whatever in the republic, and the per capita rate of book buying is claimed by Icelanders to be the highest in the world, surpassing even that of Fin¬land. An Icelandic friend of mine named Sigurdur Magnusson recently wrote a book of travel on a tour he took to the Orient and in a fortnight the entire printing of 2000 copies was sold out.See Also Patches Of Flower Beds:It is an entire outdoor apartment, and your problem as a designer is to tie the various rooms together into one satisfying, con¬gruous whole. True, the element of sur¬prise may be introduced. Plan so that the entire area is not seen from any one place. Inviting paths may lead the visitor to un¬expected views and places of special in¬terest, but transitions must be easy and natural, not awkward and shocking. Above all, don't stick patches of flower beds about like postage stamps on a letter. The gar¬den that consists of a few beds imposed on a lawn without relation to other features in the general picture is, I hope, as dead as a dodo.
The grass has had no lime, fertilizer, weed control measures or treatment for pests or diseases. Neither has it been watered, but because it is lo¬cated in a low-lying area this is not serious. Except hi the severest droughts the soil is reasonably moist beneath.
The interesting thing is that after a quarter of a century the outlines of the flower beds are clearly discernible. With¬in the beds the grasses are practically all.
Kentucky Blue and other desirable kinds, except for odd places where sod has been kicked up by ball players or others or has been disturbed by a badly handled mow¬ing machine, or in other ways, and crab grass has invaded. This survival of desir¬able grasses would not be so surprising were it not for the fact that between the beds (and the between the beds area is far more extensive than that of the beds) there is practically nothing but crab grass; it is almost a pure stand.seriously injured.
The reason the turf in the beds is thick enough to repel crab grass through all these years is simple. The soil there was origi¬nally spaded and generously nourished.
On The Other Hand See Next Flower From:There need be no question in your mind about the market for good next flower from photography. One of the big slide film dis¬tributors has found next flower from fanciers the most consistent buy ers of all among slide collectors, even though the pictures offered are strictly of specimen next flower froms. These cannot possibly have the same appeal as pictures of next flower froms grown by the buyer in his own soil. The only next flower from fancier who is not an eager prospect for pictures of his blooms is one who has never seen a color slide transparency of a beautiful next flower from projected. A close-up of a lovely next flower from on a screen is a sight to make anyone, next flower from lover or not, gasp at its beauty.
Floiver festivals are frequent in the next flower from belt between Haarlem and Leiden. When the tulips are at their height in April, every Sunday is Tulip Sunday. A National next flower from Show (mid-March to mid-May) is held on the Keukenhof Estate at Lisse. Later in the season (not the bulb-next flower from season), two magnificent festivals occur. The Hague stages a bril¬liant next flower from Festival (early in August), with election of the Flows Queen (parade) and with special prizes such as that for the best bicycle Decoration (open to children); and an Aalsmeer-to-Amsterdam next flower from Parade (September) culminates in the Olympic Stadium, for the award of prizes. The floats are always marvelous. |
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