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the glass if any appreciable moisture appears any- 

 thing more than a fine mist. It germinates in from 

 fifteen to twenty days, and the plants require no spe- 

 cial care beyond good soil, warmth, and plenty of 

 sunshine with frequent waterings. When grown as 

 house-plants they should be showered once or twice 

 a day to prevent the inroads of the red spider their 

 worst enemy. 



There is no more desirable bedding plant than the 

 Heliotrope, and the more freely it is cut by removing 

 generous portions of stem with the blossom the more 

 freely it will bloom. It is admirable for replacing 

 Pansies and may be grown on in the hotbed until the 

 Pansy's day is past. Where there is not enough 

 Heliotrope for large bedding operations, purple Ager- 

 atum may be combined with the Heliotrope with ex- 

 cellent effect; this is a method often employed in the 

 city parks, and when judiciously done one scarcely 

 notices that the beds are not all Heliotrope. Plants 

 may be taken up in the fall and cut back for winter 

 blooming. Blossoms always form on the terminals of 

 the branches. 



Lantanas 



ARE hard-wooded, shrubby plants, the leaves 

 more or less rough and prickly. The colours 

 range from pure white through various shades of 

 lemon to orange, red, a new bright scarlet, and the 

 rosy lavender of the Weeping Lantana. The seed in 



