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rich, will soon develop into branches, on which 

 from three to half a dozen flowers will be borne. 

 By keeping up the cutting-back process 

 throughout the season it is an easy matter to 

 make the plant renew itself repeatedly pro- 

 vided the soil is well supplied with nutriment. 

 This is the secret of the successful culture of 

 this class of roses. By proper management, 

 they can be kept in bloom from June to 

 November. 



Sweet Peas are inclined to bloom profusely 

 in early summer, but thereafter there will be a 

 falling-off in the quantity of their flowers 

 unless they are prevented from developing 

 seed. In order to keep them blooming 

 throughout the season, go over the vines daily 

 and cut away every seed-vessel that has begun 

 to form. The plants, thwarted in their efforts 

 to perpetuate themselves by the production of 

 seed, will at once set about the work of repro- 

 duction, and as the first stage in this process is 

 the production of flowers, it naturally follows 

 that by preventing them from following out 

 the instinct we can keep them blooming 

 throughout the greater part of the season. 

 This applies to nearly all garden flowers. 



I would not allow Pansies to bloom in mid- 



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