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small pots with new earth. I said small pots. Place them any- 

 where in the light where they will not freeze, and soon new 

 leaves will make their appearance. Now feed them with good 

 manure water and keep them in small pots — small pots — small 

 pots — and long before it is time to put anything out of doors 

 they will be full of flowers. These plants well cut back, as we 

 have mentioned, will grow round, even, full and bushy, giving 

 you a very handsome, ornamental plant, instead of the usual 

 Shanghai style so often grown by the amateur, while it has a 

 great many more flowering stalks, so you will have almost a 

 globe of blooms. 



Geranium.s grow and flower better in a dr}^ soil. So much 

 for our geraniums. We have two other plants just as desirable 

 though not as much grown. The best one is snapdragon. One 

 paper of seeds costing twenty-five cents will supply a whole 

 neighborhood. Plant your seeds in a box two or three weeks 

 before time to make your garden. In May put out your little 

 seedlings. In late summer and all the fall you have hand- 

 some plants of dark green foliage, with long spikes of dainty 

 flowers — white, pale pink, lavender, lilac, and various other 

 shades. Just before the frost comes, lift your plants, cut off 

 all the old hard growth, snip off the blooms and buds, place in 

 as small a pot as you can and not destroy the working roots, and 

 put them in any sunny window which you can spare. These 

 grow better very cool, with plenty of air. During the winter, 

 and all through the winter, you will be favored with these deli- 

 cate, long, slender spikes of flowers. These remain in bloom a 

 long time and are much sought for during winter as table deco- 

 rations. They do not easily wilt and remain fresh for ten days 

 after being cut. This plant is very desirable from the fact that 

 it will stand the cold. I have plants in my garden now looking 

 just as bright and fresh as though freeze and frost had never 

 been heard of. 



The next plant worth having and which helps make a variety 

 is the Nicotiana. Plant the seeds out of doors in spring. It 

 will bloom all the fall. Then lift, place in pot or small box or 

 tomato can, old sugar bowl or anything sinall, cut it back to six 

 or eight inches of the pot. New shoots will put out, and when 

 the sunny days come in January, February and March, this will 



