Hydrangeas will take no harm from several degrees of frost as long as they are dry and if, when frozen, they are allowed to thaw slowly. Im sheltered gardens they can be left out all the winter, and in other gardens they can either be protected by matting or be lifted into an outhouse sufficiently frost-proof to give them some protection. Hydrangeas cam be depended on to give a long flowering period and after the flowers are over the foliage is ornamental.
The Compost The compost should consist of good turfy loam enriched by one quarter its bulk of old manure with a little An Obligingly Hardy and Decorative Tub Plant ed three-inch pots, one cutting to each pot.
"Blueing"
Hydrangeas are pink naturally and only obtain their blue colour by treatment, unless the ground in which they. grow is known to contĝin a quantity of iron. Treatment shoùld begin in August. First give a soaking of plain water, and then water with blueing powder added at the rate of one and a half ounces, to two gallons of water. Repeat this three times at intervals of three weeks, During the following summer they will probably only need to be treated once unless the colour tends to revert to a washy pink. Plants that have been "blued" in the nursery before purchase will only need a small tea. spoonful of blueing powder sprinkled round each plant and watered.im once a year, "Any person wishing to identify himself or herself, or any other person, dead or alive, with any character in this book, may do-so at his or her own discretion. It shall be explicitly stated, however, that no such identification was intended by the author. Any person who doubts the author's word for this and accusses him—in spite of the above statement to the contrary—of having committed -a libel will therefore himself commit a libel—namely, that of accusing the author of telling lies, and will thus himself be sued for libelling the author.
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