THE PARLOR GARDENER. 51 



Buy a pot of ordinary mignionette. This pot 

 will probably contain a tuft composed of many 

 plants, produced from seeds. Pull up all but 

 one ; and, as the mignionette is one of the most 

 rustic of plants, which may be treated without 

 any delicacy, the single plant that is left in the 

 middle of the pot may be rigorously trimmed, 

 leaving only one shoot. This shoot you must 

 attach to a slender stick of white osier. The 

 extremity of this shoot will put forth a bunch, 

 of flower buds, that must be cut off entirely, 

 leaving not a single bud. The stalk, in conse- 

 quence of this treatment, will put out a multi- 

 tude of young shoots, that must be allowed to 

 develop freely until they are about three inches 

 and a half long. Then select out of these, four, 

 six, or eight, according to the strength of the 

 plant, with equal spaces between them. Now, 

 with a slender rod of white osier, or better, 

 with a piece of whalebone, make a hoop, and 

 attach your shoots to it, supported at the proper 

 height. When they have grown two or three 

 inches longer, and are going to bloom, support 

 them by a second hoop, like the first. Let them 



