PANSV GROWING. 



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plants with delicate foliage, a bulb or two 

 for flowers, and ferns. The artillery plant 

 is especially pretty in a fern dish, as is also 

 the plumosus asparagus. When they grow 

 a little too large they can be cut back or re- 

 moved. Begonia multiflora is also a pretty 

 plant on account of its many small leaves. 

 Whenever a fern dish grows ragged look- 

 ing, remake it. One can have two or three 

 in various states of development, so that one 

 perfect one is always on hand. If I lived 



east I should have a dish of native ferns and 

 lilies of the valley put away in a cold cellar 

 where it coiild freeze up until February and 

 then bring it into the warm rooms. And I 

 would have one of maidenhair and sweet 

 violets for early spring. One can get more 

 delight out of a fern dish than from a whole 

 conservatory of big plants. There is some- 

 thing so interesting in the slowly uncurling 

 fern fronds, it fascinates a plant lover. — 

 Vick's Magazine. 



PANSY GROWING 



Sir : Would you kindly give me a few hints 

 on raising pansies, the kind of soil they require 

 and treatment they should receive from time 

 seed is planted. 



To secure the best results with pansies the 

 seed should be sown about the second or 

 third week in August, and the plants win- 

 tered over in a cold frame. At this, date, 

 however (March 3rd), it would be better to 

 sow the seed in a pot or shallow box in the 

 window, or in a moderately warm hot-bed. 

 The plants should be hardened off by plac- 

 ing them in a cold frame or some sheltered 

 position out of doors before being planted 

 out in the border. As .pansies are of a com- 

 paratively hardy nature, they can be planted 

 outside, usually early in May. Pansy seed 

 can also be sown in the open ground as 

 soon as the ground can be worked, but these 



do not come into flower oftentimes until hot 

 weather commences, and pansies do not 

 succeed well in hot weather unless under 

 specially favored circumstances. 



Pansies like a light rich soil, with plenty 

 of moisture, that is why they succeed best 

 as spring or eatly summer flowering plants. 

 Pansies planted out for late spring or early 

 summer flowering would be benefitted very 

 much by being planted in a position where 

 they were at least partially shaded from the 

 sun for a few hours at noon day. Light 

 rich soil, plenty of moisture, and a tempera- 

 ture varying from 50 at night to 65 or 70 

 degres in the daytime suits pansies splen- 

 didly. A burning hot sun soon ruins them. 

 A little shade suits them. 



W. Hunt. O. A. C, Guelph. 



FARMING AND HORTICULTURE 



THE farmer is satisfied if his cereal crop 

 yields him a profit of $15 or $20 an 

 acre. The horticulturist — and I mean by 

 this term the man who grows fruits or vege- 

 tables outdoors — must get from $50 to 



$500 per acre ; and to do this must be able 

 to make use of every possible fact which 

 science and practice have shown to be of 

 value. — The World's Work. 



