OTHER DESIRABLE PLANTS 



PETUNIA. The single Petunia of the garden 

 makes an excellent winter-bloomer in the win- 

 dow-garden. It may not be quite as showy as 

 the double variety, but it is far preferable to 

 that, as it can be depended on to give flowers 

 throughout the entire season, and that cannot 

 be said of the double Petunia. 



If you had fine varieties of the single Pe- 

 tunia in the garden in summer, select such of 

 them as you admired most, and pot them in 

 September. Cut away the entire top when 

 you do this. Give them the same soil they 

 grew in during the summer just ended. In a 

 short time new branches will be sent up from 

 the old roots, and almost before you know it 

 the plants will have renewed themselves. 

 Growth will be as luxuriant as if they were in 

 the garden beds. Soon they will begin to 

 bloom, and from that time until spring they 

 will seldom be without flowers. It is a good 

 plan to shorten the branches from time to 

 time, thus encouraging the production of new 

 ones, from which you will get larger and finer 

 flowers than from those which have exhausted 

 most of their strength in the development of 

 blossoms. 



The application of fertilizers, of moderate 



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