3T0 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



blow upon the vines, as they are very tender when young. Give them a warm 

 place, and they will amply repay all care. When j^rowth is complete the foli- 

 age will turn yellow. Then gradually withhold water, and allow the bulbs to 

 dry. They then can be put away in some dry, cool place. After they have 

 been in this dormant state six or eight weeks they will begin to show signs of 

 life, and then ready for another season's growth. — Vicl:' s Magazine. 



A WELL -MAX AGED HOUSE PLANT. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Report mentions a very finely grown tri- 

 color pelargonium exhibited by John Parker, who gave in substance the follow- 

 ing statement of his treatment : In summer it is plunged in open ground in 

 the garden, taken up, severely cut back and repotted in autumn, the old 

 earth completely shaken from the roots. After January it is watered with 

 liquid manure once a fortnight, made from a pint of hen droppings in two 

 gallons 'of water, settled, and sediment rejected. The droppings are first 

 scalded with boiling water to destroy any animal germs. Once a week the 

 plant is dashed with water, and, if the weather is mild, in open air. The 

 pots are washed once a fortnight, and the surface of the earth stirred with a 

 fork. This was the treatment of a plant in a dining room, and the result was 

 a brilliant display. Mr. Parker said that it was important to keep plants near 

 the glass, in the fall blaze of the sun, from January to May. 



GLAZED POTS FOK PLANTS. 



Glazed pots are condemned by most writers. The majority of these writers 

 are green-house men, or those with but little experience with growing plants in 

 the dry air of our parlors and living rooms; and in watering, those in glazed 

 pots would naturally receive the same supply as those in common porous pots 

 alongside. The evaporation from the porous pots would take place much more 

 rapidly than from the glazed, and the one would be comparatively dry while 

 the other would be still wet. The next watering repeats this process and the 

 result is quickly seen. The plant in the glazed pot perishes at once, or drags 

 out a sickly, miserable existence. Glazed pots can be used with good results 

 in the parlor or living room. If the drainage is good, so that the surplus water 

 can pass off, there are many plants that will grow well in them. To this may 

 be added that many people are very irregular in watering house plants. They 

 forget to attend to it until the dry and parched appearance of the earth admon- 

 ishes them of their neglect. Of course the plant in the unglazcd pots suffers 

 worst under this treatment, for the earth gets dry from top to bottom, while 

 in the glazed pot, the great bulk of the earth being protected from rapid evap- 

 oration, may remain comparatively moist, though the top is dry. — Journal of 

 Chemistry. 



TREATMENT OF lYY. 



A recent writer says : If ivy plants that have been kept indoors during winter 

 be put in the ground on the north side of the house for the summer they will 



