July 13—The Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) is with us again and it will continue to provide us with a fine display of crinkled flowers for a long time. This plant must like to be severely pruned during the Winter for we generally have a larger number of flowers of a better quality on pruned plants than on those we allow to grow just as they please, When we see these plants during the Winter. cut back fo thick, smooth-barked stumps, it is hard to believe that they will develop into graceful plants again during the course of a few months and produce beautiful flowers the whole Summer. It takes a few years to grow plants from cuttings, that will make a display in the garden. but growers in Pootung have got over the dificulfy in quite, a novel way: they twist a few thin stems together and place a few broken bricks between them to prevent them breaking and to keep them straight; in time, these stems will join together. One of our for f lilac to our shrubberies these days! native shrubs Buddleia variabilis is adding a This plant, which is also known as B. Davidii, th ge. much sailor e himself, or a office. They hai see stripes in the necktie."—" pig un DR meet a ich di come an eyesore.—w.J.k. jesus
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