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the healthiest occupation in the world, as it keeps one 

 much out of doors. Instead of lolling indoors in com- 

 fortable chairs, one moves about, and with the mind 

 fully occupied all the time. 



They sell at the Army and Navy Stores an admirable 

 little lamp-stove (Rippingille's patent) for heating small 

 greenhouses. This will keep the frost out of a small 

 house, and is far easier to manage, for an amateur with 

 a gardener who goes home at night, than the usual more 

 expensive arrangement. 



There are also small forcing -boxes to put inside a 

 greenhouse or in a room for bringing on seeds in early 

 spring. 



Greenhouse Cyclamens are always useful, and should 

 be sown early in the year (February or March) in heat. 

 They should be grown on steadily under glass all the 

 summer, and kept well watered, then they will flower all 

 through the next winter. Mr. Thompson sells Cyclamen 

 seed of the sweet old-fashioned kind, which is rather 

 difficult to get from other nurserymen, who all go in for 

 the giant sizes, and are now spoiling this lovely flower 

 by doubling it. It is best to grow them every year from 

 seed ; but if the old plants are sunk out of doors and 

 kept moist through the summer they flower very well. 

 I have a large old plant this winter in a hanging basket, 

 and its appearance is very satisfactory. Some garden- 

 ers dry the bulbs on a greenhouse shelf ; that also 

 answers. 



I would advise everyone to try and get the old Prince 

 of Orange Pelargonium. There is nothing like it, but it 

 is not easy to get, as gardeners do not understand that 

 it requires to be treated like an ordinary flowering Pelar- 

 gonium, rather than like the hardier sweet -leaved kind. 

 It wants well cutting back at the end of the summer, 

 and then growing on in rather more heat than the ordi- 



