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classes, but the foliage is a bright fresh green and the plants are of excellent 

 habit. 



Single Japan pinks are not as highly prized by most persons as the double, 

 but the improvement in them has kept pace with the double varieties. In the 

 Heddenigii, the plants are rather dwarf, and the flowers are large, smooth and 

 circular, and very rich in color. In the Laciniatus the flowers are tall and they 

 are the most showy of all. The flowers are very deeply fringed and present an 

 elegant appearance. The single sorts that always come with the double seeds, 

 are not to be compared with those from pure strains. 



Tiverton. A. H. Cameron 



PRUNING HOUSE PLANTS. 



The average plant grower does not seem to understand the advantage 

 that comes from the free pinching back of thrifty plants, to induce them to 

 break into a greater number of shoots and to keep them 

 compact in form. For a little convincing experiment in 

 this line, I know of no better subject to begin on at this 

 season than the German ivy, a plant found in almost 

 every collection. One calculates on the use of these 

 plants in the vases or window boxes to be started several 

 months later, and for that purpose it is much more 

 satisfactory to have a plant in the style of Fig. 955, than 

 a sprawler supported by trellis and twine, as at Fig. 954. 

 The latter form is 

 the one most usu- 

 ally met. To pro- 

 duce the more de- 

 sirable shape, it is 

 only necessary to 

 cut the plant back 

 to within three in- 

 ches of the ground 

 setting aside the 

 trellis also. One 

 branch, however, 

 Fig. 954. had better be left 



for ten days longer in order that the check to growth be not over severe at one 

 time. As new shoots appear, cut these back one-third when they have reached 

 a length of eight or ten inches.— American Gardening. 



Fig. 955. 



