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purple fruit. This should be sown in boxes in heat and the seedlings pricked 

 into thumb-pots, after they have formed the second pair of leaves. If kept 

 growing, will usually flower the first season. 



When fuchsias are forced for winter they seldom amount to anything the 

 following summer, unless taken from the pots after they have finished, all the 

 soil shaken off and replaced again in smaller pots in a rich soil and watered 

 sparingly until well started again. Treated in this way, they will usually flower 

 again in late summer or early fall, sometimes continuing up till winter very 

 profusely. 



INTRODUCTION OF THE BERMUDA LILY. 



^<^^ HO can measure the pleasure given by a beautiful flower? Who 

 deserves more grateful remembrance than one who, through love 

 alone, brings to our fair land the choicest growths of other coun- 

 tries to beautify and gladden our own good homes ? 



The fairest of lilies — the pure Easter flower — the Bermuda lily 

 — was first brought to America from the Island of Bermuda, in 

 1876, by Mrs. Thomas P. Sargent, Assistant Purchasing Agent 

 of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 



When she was leaving the island, in the spring of that year, two friends 

 residing there gave her a few of the lily bulbs. Upon her arrival at her home 

 she presented some of them to Mr. Robert Crawford, a near-by florist, who 

 about a year later, sold the increase to Mr. William Harris, of Philadelphia. 

 He began growing the bulbs and offered them to the public, with the addition 

 of his name, as the Lilium Harrisii. 



Mrs. Sargent was an invalid for many years. Her home in the suburbs of 

 Philadelphia, was a centre for all that is lorely in plant growth, and her life was 

 as beautiful and benificent as the choice flowers with which she surrounded 

 herself. For her loving devotion to their culture, the bountiful giving of her 

 treasures to hospitals, flower-missions, the sick, and hosts of friends, her name 

 should be canonized among the saints in flowers. She is now where Hlies bloom 

 as the emblem of purity. No more fitting resemblance could be chosen to 

 keep alive her memory than in giving her name to the first flower of her 

 adoption. — Vick's Magazine. 



The Caladium as an Out-door Plant.— The beautiful caladiums with 

 variously-colored variegated leaves, which made such a beautiful show at the 

 Columbian Exposition, are usually regarded as solely green-house plants, and to 

 require a very moist atmosphere at that ; but they are very successful when 

 grown in the open air, providing the soil is damp and the situation somewhat 

 shaded from the full sun. Indeed, when the proper situation can be secured, 

 there are few plants which will give more pleasure under open-air culture. — 

 Meehans' Monthly for June. 



