August: First Week 



GETTING HOUSE PLANTS READY FOR WINTER 

 BLOOM: NEW PLANTS FROM SEEDS AND 

 CUTTINGS; SUMMER CARE OF POTTED 

 PLANTS; PLANTS FROM THE GARI7EN FOR 

 WINTER FLOWERING; MAKING NEW RUB- 

 BER PLANTS 



The success of next winter's window garden depends to a 

 very great extent upon what you do with your plants now. 

 Any plant that is to be forced, or grown under unnatural 

 conditions, must be carefully prepared for the extra tax 

 put upon it. 



Several classes of plants are available for winter use. 

 There are the regular house plants, which are carried over 

 from year to year and are kept solely for this purpose; there 

 are new plants, obtained now and put into shape for the 

 winter's work; and there are some outdoor garden plants 

 that are suitable for continued use indoors when their 

 duties in the open flower beds are over. In addition, when 

 one has a small greenhouse or hot-bed available for spring 

 use, a few of some of the bedding plants may be kept over 

 for stock plants, from which to obtain cuttings early next 

 spring. 



It is not difficult to obtain all the plants for which there is 

 likely to be room in the house, and to have them in the best 

 of shape, if the work is taken in hand now. Usually this 

 work is left until the last minute, when choice is limited, and 

 most of the plants wanted are lost through a too sudden 

 change from outdoor to indoor conditions. Plants for use 

 this winter may be propagated now from cuttings or seeds 

 and will make thrifty young plants that will give ideal 

 results; small plants may be bought now from the florist at a 



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