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and will continue to flower for several weeks. This is 

 a very easy and a very common method of growing Candy- 

 tuft. Finer plants and larger flowers can be grown by giv- 

 ing the plants more room, and they will continue much 

 longer in bloom. Candytuft can be readily transplanted, 

 and a good plan is, to set them out in rows nine inches 

 apart each way ; the land should be rich and kept entirely 

 free from weeds. Candytuft is not only very pretty but 

 it is very sweet; you cannot have too much of it in the 

 house, and for the good of the plants you cannot cut off 

 the flowers too frequently. If you allow it to go to seed 

 the plant is soon exhausted, and the way to prevent this 

 is to cut the flowers as fast as they appear. 



I have heard people say that they raised flowers not 

 for bouquets, or for use in the house, but because they 

 wanted to see them in the garden. I have a dim recol- 

 lection of making some such remark myself, when I was 

 a boy, and did not know any better, Now, I like to see 

 flowers in the house ; in the parlor, in the library, or on 

 the dining-room table, anywhere and everywhere. But 

 if one prefers to have them in the garden, if he does not 

 care about cutting them, l3ut would rather let them 

 grow, there is no objection. In this case, Candytuft 

 should be sown in succession, say as early as possible in 

 spring, and then at intervals of two weeks, until the first 

 of July. Again in August and September, sow a bed in 

 a sheltered portion of the garden, where the plants can 

 remain all the winter. 



There are numerous varieties ; the Pure White being 

 the most popular. It is fragrant and a profuse bloomer. 

 Carminia is a new variety which bids fair to be a decided 

 acquisition. These, with the Sweet-scented Pure White, 

 from carefully grown seed, are all that will be needed, 

 except by the professional florist. 



