GROWING PLANTS FOR 



months. It is advisable to let the florists grow 

 them on to flowering size, as they are some- 

 what exacting in their requirements during the 

 early stages of their growth, and as yet we do 

 not understand these requirements well enough 

 to give the treatment they get from the florist. 

 It is well to invest in three or four plants, so 

 that one will not have to do table duty too long 

 at a time. 



The Baby Primrose is a lovely little plant 

 that gives to the table precisely that charm 

 which wildwood flowers generally have a mo- 

 nopoly of. It is not showy in one sense of the 

 word, that is, it is lacking in brilliant color- 

 ing, but it is showy in the sense that it is 

 beautiful. Its flowers are a soft, rosy-lilac, 

 with a greenish-yellow eye. They are small 

 individually, but there are so many of them on 

 each healthy plant that the effect is very good. 

 They are produced on long, slender stalks, 

 thrown well above the foliage, which is in a 

 thick mass at the surface of the soil. The 

 flowers are borne in whorls, two or three to a 

 stalk. This plant is of remarkably easy cul- 

 ture. Give it a light, fibrous soil and a good 

 deal of water and you will have not the least 

 trouble with it. Anyone who has a fondness 



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