CHOICE OF FLOWERS 



purple, bronze, blue, faint yellow and mottled, 

 all in a jumble; but It Is easy to sow each color 

 by Itself, and you will admit the gain In this 

 method. If, the next time they are In flower, you 

 gather bouquets of them according to color: a 

 blue to-day, a purple to-morrow, and so on. 

 Let me add that by keeping the flowers picked 

 you keep the vines well filled with flowers to pick. 

 There Is a paradox. If you like, but It Is a fact. 

 The seed may be sown In October at a depth of 

 fully four Inches, and to Insure later flowering 

 and take the place of any vines that may be frost- 

 killed, there can be a second sowing in April. 

 The plants are apt to come up thickly and will 

 stand thinning. Some florists not only tear out 

 a number of their vines, to give room for the 

 greater expansion of those which remain, but In 

 the late summer they cut all of them to a lowness 

 of two feet, feed them with manure water, and 

 start them in life all over again; but mine have 

 always been such thrifty creatures that they have 

 bloomed till frost, and after, needing no other 

 attention than an occasional pruning. There Is 

 a pretty dwarf variety that calls for no wires or 

 strings, for It Is of bushy habit, and It therefore 

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