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in the early Spring months the Pansy attains its finest 
perfection in the South, as it does not like our dry Sum- 
mers. The best way to get good Pansies is to buy good 
seed and sow it in a cold frame in September, and when 
the little plants come up let them stand until early 
Spring, about February Ist in this section, and plant 
them out in the gardens or borders where they are in- 
tended to flower. It is always best to get new plants 
every year, as sometimes it is difficult to keep the old 
plants through the Summer, and even if you do the. 
flowers will be small and inferior to those of young plants. 
Anybody that does not care or have the conveniences to 
raise them from seed, can buy a fine selection from any 
florist in the early Spring at only a small cost, that will 
give fine satisfaction. In saving the seed the little pods 
must be gathered while they are quite green, as if allowed 
to mature on the plant they soon burst and the seed would 
all be lost. They will ripen after being gathered, if put 
in a box or vessel in a dry place; a piece of paper should 
be thrown over them, as even in this state they burst 
and the seed fly out of the box or vessel, if something is 
not done to prevent them. Pansies delight in a rich light 
soil and plenty of moisture. 
MUSA ENSETE. 
4: BYSSINIAN Banana. A native of the mountains 
== of Abyssinia. This magnificent plantattains a height 
of thirty feet, the leaves occasionally reaching the length 
of twenty feet, with a width of three feet, being perhaps 
the largest in the whole empire of plants, exceeding those 
of Strelitzia and Ravenala, and surpassing even in quad- 
rate measurement those of the grand water plant Victoria 
Regia, while also excelling in comparative circumference 
