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if the temperature of the room does not run too low at 

 niglit, and, a.s their name indicates, are very beautiful, 

 beside lasting a long time in flower. 



The acacia, too, is another sln-ub of easy culture, with 

 much prettier foliage and quicker growth than the olean- 

 der, and having quite pretty and fragrant flowers. 



There is the trailing abutelon, with pretty lance-shaped 

 and marbled leaves, which requires no peculiar treatment, 

 likes considerable water, and, of course, nrast have a soil 

 that will not get sodden and sour, as all other plants of 

 this character should. 



I have a few tea and china roses, but they are 

 young, and I have only experimented a little with them, 

 but enough to be convinced that they do much better in a 

 soil of burnt sod than any other I know of. Any good, 

 rich sod, burnt till it will feel like ashes, and light enough 

 to crumble through your Augers. 



I hear that one of my neighbors is trying a fuchsia in it, 

 and that it is doing well. I am inclined to believe that it 

 is just as good for those as roses, as both are lovers of 

 alkali and enormous eaters. 



I have been a good deal troubled with the red spider on 

 my roses, and from them they traveled to my fuchsias. 

 Being unable to get the whale oil soap to kill them with, I 

 tried spirits of camphoi" and water (one-half teaspoonful to 

 one quart of water) ^yith very good success. As that has a 

 tendency to revive a drooping plant, as well as persons, I 

 think it, on the whole, preferable. 



With the roses — they being more woody — I had the 

 water heated to about one hundred and twenty degrees and 



