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as every one of much experience knows re-potting tends to 

 make them send out side shoots instead of upright ones. I have 

 fancied, too, that they were rather impatient at being moved 

 about very much in different positions, particularly the 

 begonias, until they are quite strong again. 



I would like to say a word in regard to bou- 

 vardias. I had a few varieties last spring that liad 

 blossomed througli the winter, and thouglit best to bed 

 them out, hoping, by care in taking them from the pot, 

 not to disturb the roots so but what I could take them in 

 attain for this \vinter. 



Among the different ones was one elegans, which I did 

 not admire as much as the others, and perhaps did not 

 handle it quite as carefully, for I noticed I broke some of 

 the roots ; but my white one, so waxy and fragrant, was 

 put into the ground very carefully, I assure you, not a 

 thread of a root broken. (Ignorance and inexperience again.) 

 In a few weeks elegans threw up strong, healthy shoots 

 from the roots, but my pet not one. When it came time 

 to take them up, in the fall, I did so, but all hut elegans 

 died. That has blossomed well all winter. 



Now., I know, as these do not start from cuttings, it is 

 by breaking the root or a division of them that you start 

 new ones for the next winter. 



I have spoken more particularly of my failures^ and 

 now, by taking into consideration tliat I have only common 

 sitting room and kitchen windows, such as almost any 

 farmei*'s wife has, you can judge for yourselves, by the 

 few plants I have here, of my success. 



