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and they are of an unexcelled fragrance and colour. Next year I intend 

 to double the number, as I believe my coldframes produce finer flowers than 

 any I have seen grown in a greenhouse. 



There are very few days when it is too cold to pick violets in the middle 

 of the day. Take a small covered basket, lined with something; open the 

 frames a little at a time, and drop the blossoms into the basket. Of course, 

 there are some days when the matting cannot be taken off, but there are 

 not many of them. Each day the frames must be aired, if for only ten 

 minutes at a time. It is best to have a small thermometer mside; and 

 seventy-five degrees is the highest temperature that should be allowed. 



VI. Pansies, Forget-me-nots, and Wallflowers 

 By Thomas Murray 



From a coldframe may be had violets, wallflow^ers, forget-me-nots 

 and pansies in March, "hepaticas" and trailing arbutus in April, together 

 with wood-violets, wood-anemones, and the many other wild flowers, thus 

 starting the flower season two months ahead. Again in October and 

 November, when everything outside has been nipped by early frosts, the 

 coldframe preserves a few choice heliotropes, begonias, Marguerite 

 carnations, nasturtiums grown in pots, scarlet sages; and the queen of the 

 autumn, the chrysanthemum, is seen in all her glory. 



Violets for growing in coldframes are propagated, like strawberries, 

 by runners. Great numbers of these are formed in April just as the flowering 

 season closes. Take as many as you need to fill the frames the following 

 year — say thirty-five to forty-five for a six- by three-foot sash, remove the 

 old plants, and put the young ones in their places. Or, should the space 

 be required for other th'ngs, place the young plants three inches apart in 

 shallow boxes or in small pots until the beginning of May, when they should 

 be planted in the open ground, kept watered and cultivated in summer, and 

 transplanted into the frame, seven inches apart, by the middle of August. 

 Flowers may be p'cked from early October until late November. In sections 

 where the thermometer registers zero it will be necessary to keep the frames 

 comfortably covered. In warm sectons flowers may be picked all winter. 



When plants are frozen, they should be left so, but during long warm 

 spells air must be given or they will "damp off," or rot. The sunshine in 



