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share the soil and the water, and for a short- 

 lived joy pansies will answer. This list of 

 the plants which can be grown successfully 

 in boxes includes almost evey available name. 

 I would have been glad to make it fuller if 

 I could truthfully have done so. 



And I have said nothing at all about that 

 very fascinating form of gardening known in 

 rural or semi - rural communities as raising 

 house plants. As the world grows sadly 

 wiser in its own conceits, many gentle old 

 habits are laid aside, or are left for a few 

 quiet people here or there who have not for- 

 gotten the old ways. To make ready for the 

 long winter indoors, during the long summer 

 outdoors, is with them a lifelong practice, and 

 not the gayest June parade of roses can make 

 them forget the shelves set advantageously in 

 a sheltered corner, where certain plants are 

 carried over from season to season, and where 

 fresh cuttings are making ready for winter 

 bloom. Slips, the cuttings are called. To offer 

 a slip is a token of the highest regard : to 

 ask for one a sign of the closest intimacy, if, 

 indeed, it be not an intrusion bordering on 

 rudeness. To exchange slips is to enter into 



