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will have a wealth of sweet flowers. And if your seed are the 

 Princess Alice variety, double, it will be better to cut your flowers 

 as soon as well developed, to have your plant grow large and 

 remain prolific. Just before I started off yesterday morning I 

 found in my garden a bunch of calendulas. These are a late 

 growth out of doors and the whole bunch put into a small pot 

 will give bright yellow flowers the whole dark winter through. 

 You see I have rung the change on small pots. This pot 

 question is the one bane of home plant culture. It is the great 

 bugbear of the florist. We sell a plant to a customer all ready 

 for the winter growing. It is sent home in the morning. By 

 afternoon of the same day a boy comes and says, "Mamma wants 

 a big pot." In the course of a month the customer appears with 

 a woeful complaint. ''That plant I bought of you hasn't grown 

 one bit. I don't know what ails it. I have done everything to 

 it. I never could make plants grow." Then I ask, "What did 

 A'-ou do to it^" "Oh, I did everything," is the reply. "In the 

 first place I put it right into a large pot just as soon as I got it 

 home. Then I watered and watered it, then I put in new earth 

 and took a great big pot this time. Well, I did everything and 

 that plant won't grow. Plants never do grow for me." Now 

 that poor plant had been tormented to death. If a small plant 

 is in a large pot, ihe plant itself will not grow till the jar is full 

 of roots, and while it is making roots it will grow no flowers. 

 This is why I have reiterated small pots, small pots. When 

 the pot is once filled with roots then your plant grows, throws 

 out flower shoots and buds, and if it is flowers ypu wiant you 

 must keep the plant in a small pot and feed it well with manure 

 water. The less root room, the more foliage and flowers if well 

 nourished. 



' Bulbs are inexpensive, take little room, will grow in cool, airy 

 rooms, are very little trouble and a great satisfaction. Easter 

 lilies are lovely and can be easily grown. If you buy large bulbs, 

 put them in five-inch pots, water well, put in dark place till the 

 pots are filled v.ith roots, then bring them to the light and sun, 

 keep them well wet down with manure water till color shows on 

 the bud, then use clear water. If you continue to use the feed 

 it will turn the edges of the flowers dark. Gladiolas are fine for 

 house plants. If you have room you can have boxes of them 

 full of flowers, as early as February and March. The light 



