FORCING VINES FOR WINTER USE IOI 
on flowers in about four months, although this 
period can be reduced as we approach the more 
natural conditions of spring. 
Pick sweet peas every day, as soon as they 
commence to bear, when, also, you should begin 
to feed them regularly with cow manure water. 
To make this, suspend a bushel of cow manure 
in a barrel of water and allow it to soak a couple 
of days. For the first two weeks dilute the liquid 
to half strength; after this, full strength will not 
be too rich, if applied once every four or five days. 
Seedsmen offer for forcing under glass, special 
“winter flowering” varieties of sweet peas which 
should be secured for all greenhouse work. The 
seed of this strain is sure to give you earlier, 
larger, and handsomer flowers than will that of 
any out-door, standard varieties saved over. 
In contrast with the upright character of most 
pot plants, the great, drooping, purple flower- 
clusters of the wistaria when treated as a house 
subject, have brought the plant into prominence 
and great popularity. The combination of the 
flowers and the grotesque though handsome 
foliage, produces a most pleasing specimen that 
will go far toward brightening any home during 
the dull, dreary days of winter. 
Unlike other forced plants, wistaria should 
