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into a sort of patent nostrum affair, and " fer- 

 tilizing moss" is being sold in Europe as some- 

 thing very wonderful. Not only are the "bulls" 

 at work in its interest, bat a "bear" movement 

 against plants in rooms, grown in earth, also in 

 the interest of " fertilizing moss" is also appa- 

 rent. We may actually catch malarial fever 



NBIV OR RARE PLANTS. 



Croton Sinitzianus. — The great merits of the 

 Australian crotons as plants adapted to Ameri- 

 can summer gardening, leads us to welcome 

 every new addition to the list. Our flower gar- 

 dens are now rich with Coleus, Geraniums and 



from sleeping in a room with a flower pot full of 

 earth in which a plant is growing. And, won- 

 derful to think of, all this terrible sufl'ering can 

 be avoided if you will only biiy, for a few dol- 

 lars, a few cents' worth of " fertilizing moss!" 

 How natural it all sounds to the regular reader 

 of "medical" advertisements. 



so forth, borrowed chiefly from the gardens of 

 Europe. We might just as well have a distinct- 

 ively American style, made up of plants which 

 will look just as well as those used in Europe, 

 but which will much better stand our summer 

 suns. Of such plants these various crotons are 

 excellent representatives. 



