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By the middle of October they will be found to be well 

 established and growing freely, and, pinching off their tips, 

 they must then be taken indoors and housed in the lightest, 

 airiest, and coolest part say, on a stage not far removed from 

 the glass. 



When they are ready for potting on, which will be in a week or 

 two, mix a generous compost made up of two parts fibrous 

 loam, chopped, one part old cow manure, chopped, one part 

 leaf soil, sifted, and an addition of coarse sand and mortar 

 rubble. Use 48*5 as far as possible, for this is the market size. 

 Pot very firmly, as that is most conducive to short, sturdy 

 growth. Do not overwater that is, water carefully and 

 tentatively until the pots are full of roots and growth is very 

 active, from which stage onward they must never get dried out. 



The plants will probably put out more growths than can be 

 carried on, and it is well to rub off the superfluous ones as soon 

 as they can be seen. Leave no more than three shoots and keep 

 these pinched back so that each of the three becomes a system 

 of breaks in itself. Do not again stop them after April, but 

 feed well three times a week with liquid manure, the safest and 

 best being obtained from the water butt in which a bag of cow 

 manure is immersed. 



Plenty of light, abundance of air, space, and little heat are 

 the essentials in producing good marketable Pelargoniums, 

 and if these rules of health are scrupulously attended to there is 

 little to fear from the green fly, which is so powerfully attracted 

 to any plant which is the least bit " off colour." Always be on 

 the look-out for them, and do not neglect such a preventive 

 measure as occasional fumigation. 



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For the purposes of this work the Pansy and Viola may be 

 regarded as almost identical. The latter has the greater vogue 

 and is more generally propagated from cuttings, because the 

 named varieties are so universally used for bedding purposes. 

 It is only as cuttings that they come under glass cultivation, 

 and even then they require no heat and but little protection. 

 There are more Violas lost through East winds in the spring than 



