THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



celosia remain beautiful for several weeks and 

 are especially suited for pot culture and adorn- 

 ment of terraces. 



All those whose houses are surrounded by 

 terraces will find great interest in growing a 

 succession of plants in pots for decoration; 

 half a dozen pots of a kind would be suffi- 

 cient unless the terrace is very large; and 

 even if there is no flower garden, but just a 

 little corner where the plants can be raised 

 and nursed into perfection to bring forward, 

 they will give an infinite amount of pleasure. 



The tall-growing Campanula pyramidalis is 

 especially beautiful. Large, strong plants, one 

 year old in May, if potted and fed often 

 with liquid manure, bone meal and a tiny bit 

 of nitrate of soda, will be six feet high by the 

 the second week in August, and remain cover- 

 ed with either white or blue blossoms for a 

 month. This plant can be seen in its greatest 

 perfection at the Church of St. Anne de 

 Beaupre on the St. Lawrence River, below 

 Quebec, and is used there, growing in pots in 



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