OCTOBER 207 



next season, for the future, for next year, or even 

 for two years hence. To neglect this foresight 

 may entail a long chain of failures which no amount 

 of subsequent energy will be able to turn to 

 success. 



Pansies, in a southern county at any rate, are 

 generally a failure, and the chief cause is the want 

 of partial shade and moisture. To grow pansies to 

 perfection the seed must be sown in boxes in May, 

 each seed being dropped at a distance of an inch or 

 so from its neighbour. This sounds a wearisome 

 occupation, but it is not so trying as it would 

 appear, and the number of boxes needed is a much 

 more serious matter if a goodly collection of seed- 

 lings is desired. They should be pricked out into 

 a half-shady bed as soon as they are fit to handle, 

 and transferred to permanent quarters in September. 

 The best position is one sheltered from the midday 

 sun, so that their succulent shoots may not be 

 exposed to the worst heats of summer. A good 

 watering at night with tepid rain water will help to 

 extend their flowering season, and an essential to 

 this end is to pick off the blossoms as they fade. 

 Nothing in animal nature is expected to perform all 

 the functions of life at one time, and it is unreason- 

 able to expect flowers to bloom, to set seed, and to 

 push out new growth together. While they are 

 ripening seed they cannot properly be expected to 

 do anything else. 



Coreopsis grandiflora is a valuable herbaceous 

 plant which generally disappears after a year or 

 two. We learn in books that it is a perennial, but 

 experience is at variance with the writers of books 



