BEGONIAS 



difficulty back to its cause by careful observa- 

 tion, and give that corrective treatment which 

 a discovery of the cause of trouble will readily 

 suggest. In the first instance either better 

 drainage or less water, in the second regularity 

 of watering, and in the third more moisture in 

 the air and the avoidance of abrupt changes 

 of temperature. 



Since the above was written I have received 

 a very interesting letter from a lady who tells 

 me how she grows her Begonias. She sets 

 her plants in the ground in May, in their pots. 

 Old ones are cut down, and new ones grown 

 from the branches cut off. If the pots are 

 filled with roots the plants are shifted to large 

 pots. They are left out of doors until October 

 when she returns to the city. Then she lifts 

 them and places them in sunny windows with 

 lace curtains between them and the glass. 

 The first part of the season she feeds her plants 

 well. The latter part of it she gives only water. 

 Her plants are the wonder of the professional 

 florist. 



From what this correspondent writes some 

 readers of "Indoor Gardening" may gain 

 some pointers which will be of benefit to them 

 in their culture of this popular plant. 



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