48 PANSY, VIOLA AND VIOLET 



Sturdy plants should be taken, and carefully and firmly 

 planted in the pots. A good layer of ashes should be 

 placed in the frame ready for their reception, and on 

 this the pots should stand, thus effectually preventing 

 the ingress of worms. The frame-light should be placed 

 on for protection from severe weather, but air should be 

 admitted on all possible occasions. In this condition the 

 plants should remain until early in February, when they 

 should be repotted into 6-inch pots. The same compost 

 should be used, though in this it need not be sifted, 

 but only the large lumps of loam, etc., be well broken up. 

 Having been repotted, they should be replaced in frames, 

 under the same conditions, being about 6 inches from the 

 glass, and if treated with doses of liquid manure from time 

 to time, and well looked after in all ways, good large 

 early blooms should be the result. Later on, when the 

 weather is genial, the frame-lights may be taken away 

 altogether, and the plants allowed to grow on of their 

 own free will. Subsequently, after the shows are over, 

 they may be used for propagating purposes. When 

 grown on in this way, however, it is best to plunge the 

 pots in the earth, otherwise the plants may suffer from 

 the heat. Or, as soon as the plants have served their 

 purpose, they may be broken up in the manner suggested 

 heretofore, or, yet again, planted out in the hardy flower 

 garden. 



TUFTED PANSIES AND VIOLETTAS IN PANS AND BASKETS 



This is a capital method of using these types of the 

 Pansy for house or conservatory decoration. Owing to 

 their tufted habit of growth, they are especially suited 

 for this purpose, the other types having much too 

 straggling a habit of growth to justify one in so using 

 them. 



Earthenware pans, from 8 inches to a foot or more 

 in diameter, should be procured, with three or four 



