ABOUT FRUITS, FLOWElcS AND I-'AKMIN^. 349 



tender to frost, and must not be planted out until about 

 the first of May. It is to be treated like the gladiolus. Its 

 effect is heightened by being put in a half shade, where its 

 pure white is relieved by a green background. The flower 

 stein rises from two to three feet and requires a rod to sus- 

 tain it. The fragrance is so powerful that a few plants will, 

 at evening, scent a whole garden; a circumstance well 

 known to owners of pleasure gardens, who render their 

 grounds very delightful by dispersing these, and other odo- 

 riferous flowers, in various parts of their grounds, thus 

 loading the dewy evening air with delicious perfume. They 

 may be planted in ten-inch pots and sunk in the ground 

 until they have begun to blossom, when the pots may be 

 raised and conveyed to the parlor or veranda. A single 

 plant will sometimes make a room disagreeable by its exces- 

 sive odor. 



The roots are imported to England from Italy, as that 

 climate is too humid and cool too perfect them for flower- 

 ing. But, in our soil and climate, we have found no diffi- 

 culty in raising, from oif-sets, the finest possible bulbs. No 

 yard or garden should be without tuberoses. 



PLANTS IN POTS. It is better when one has ground at 

 hand, to turn out plants which have been housed through 

 the winter into the open garden. Roses, geraniums, 

 azaleas, cape jasmins, fuchsias, etc., will be wonderfully 

 invigorated by such treatment. The tea and Bengal roses 

 can hardly be brought to perfection in pots, and those who 

 have only seen the penurious growth and diminished and 

 sparse blossoms in the parlor have no idea of the beauty of 

 these roses. We usually excavate a place two feet square' 

 and two feet deep for each rose, filling it with sandy loam 

 very highly enriched with leaf-mold and decayed manure. 

 The trouble will be repaid four fold ; for nature has never 

 made a plant that forgets to be grateful for attention. 



In turning out plants, put the left hand in such a way 

 upon the top as that the stem shall come between tho 



