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bloom ; but take off the seed pods before they 

 have time to form, or the plant may perish. It 

 will not be long before new shoots will appear 

 just below the places where the flowers were. 

 From among these new shoots choose the one on 

 each branch which is in the best situation to re- 

 place what you have nipped off. Little by little, 

 the principal stalk, and also the branches, will 

 become . woody, and your mignionette will no 

 longer be an herbaceous plant, except at its upper 

 extremities, which will bloom all the year with- 

 out interruption. It will be truly a tree mign- 

 ionette, living for an indefinite period; for, with 

 proper treatment, a tree mignionette will live 

 from twelve to fifteen years. I have seen them 

 in Holland double this age. 



Resources that the Flower-stand offers. 

 Ornamented and managed as I have directed, 

 your flower- stand will be a continual source of 

 agreeable recreation. There will always be work 

 about your plants. The pleasure of providing 

 for their wants will be as agreeable to you as 

 that of seeing them flower, one after another. 



