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repeating it too often. Should its vegetation seem 

 to you not vigorous enough, give to it, now and 

 then, half a tumbler of the water that the dishes 

 have been washed in. Frequently wash and wipe 

 its leaves on both sides. Do all this, and it will 

 bloom as beautifully in your flower-stand as if it 

 had never quitted the greenhouse of the gardener 

 who sold it to you. 



Mignionette as a Tree. 



Some pretty plants of Erica (cape heath) of 

 the medium size varieties, and one or two pime- 

 leas, one with a white hanging flower, the other 

 with a rose-colored, upright one, will complete 

 the filling of the flower- stand. Do not fail to 

 reserve, at each end, a little place for a plant of 

 mignionette as a tree. You have probably never 

 seen mignionette otherwise than in th ordinary 

 form of an herbaceous plant ; and, as you do not 

 live in the north of France, where these pretty 

 shrubs are very much in fashion, it will be diffi- 

 cult for you to procure two tree mignionettes 

 already formed. You must, therefore, form them 

 for yourself. To do this, proceed as follows : 



