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FAMILIAS GJIIDES FLnWESS. 



one way of so doiDg will be to raise a stock of young plants 

 every year, and, as they flower, keep the tables and windows 

 and conservatory gay with them. Yearling plants with 

 one or two great heads of rosy pink flowers on them delight 

 all who see them, for even the crusty botanists have to 

 admit that they are "buxom," if not delicately beautiful. 

 As for larger jjlants, to make them well consists in simply 

 giving them larger and larger pots as recpiired, the soil 

 always to be rich and light, and made of any handy materials 

 that answer to the description. When the plants gro\v 

 freely — and not before — the pots should be placed in pans 

 of water an inch or so deep, to enable them to help 

 themselves, for every moment that these thirsty plants lack 

 moisture they go backward instead of going forward. 



