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Violets in frames, we can all have and enjoy borders 

 or beds of them. In good rich soil they grow and 

 prosper with hardly any care, and give showers of 

 bloom, but in hot or poor soils this is not the case, 

 and you must take a good deal of trouble with 

 them if you want to get plenty of bloom. As soon 

 as they have done flowering in April you must take 

 up the roots, cut off all runners, and divide the 

 roots into separate crowns, planting them in a cool 

 shady place with a good depth of the best soil you 

 have, as Violets root very deeply. At the end of 

 August they should be again moved into a sunny 

 place where they can blow during the autumn, and 

 again more lavishly in the spring. 



V. tricolor is the Pansy, an invaluable plant for 

 the garden. You can have Pansies in flower almost 

 the whole year ; they grow easily in almost any soil, 

 and move without difficulty at any age. You can 

 sow seed early in the year for summer flowering, 

 and again in the autumn for spring beds, or, if 

 you have special favourites, they are easily struck 

 from cuttings, tearing the young shoots off the old 

 stem. If the old plants have become straggling, cut 

 them right back, and you will soon have plenty of 

 new shoots which you can take as cuttings. Pansies 



