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and ■ grown should be carefully removed to their 

 blooming quarters in October or November. Where 

 they are wanted to bloom later they may be removed 

 in the spring. Those who have only gTOwn a few 

 Daisies in tiny beds or borders, should re-divide 

 and change their' ground every second year at the 

 longest. A spadeful or two of fresh compost may 

 be dug into a fresh place, the Daisy patch lifted, 

 divided, and re-planted, and thus a splendid spread 

 of Daisy bloom be ob- 

 tained every year. No- 

 thing can well be more 

 simple than this mode 

 of Daisy culture, and 

 nothing more effectual. 



Unless with theobject 

 of raising new varieties, 

 it is hardly worth while 

 to raise Daisies from 

 seeds. Sow on a shel- 

 tered, partly-shaded bed 

 or border in the open 

 air as soon as ripe, water 

 in dry weather, and keep 

 clear of weeds. As soon 

 as the plants are suffi- 

 ciently large to handle, 

 prick them out in beds 

 or borders, or in boxes, 

 three inches apart, and 

 leave the Daisies in 

 these tin they bloom. 

 Throw out the worth- 

 less ones, and plant 

 out in the garden all 

 those that may prove 

 different to or improve- 

 ments upon existing 

 varieties. 



Those who do not 

 possess a garden may 

 grow Daisies in pots, 

 either in their yards, 



window-sills, or other places where a six-inch pot 

 can be placed. Any of these will grow a Daisy plant 

 that win almost hide the surface of the pot with 

 its generous profusion of bloom. Daisies in pots 

 may also be placed inside sunny windows in the 

 early spring, and thus be forced gently into flower 

 at least a month, six weeks, or even two months 

 before they will flower in the open, thereby antici- 

 pating to that extent the brightness and beauty of 

 the spring. 



Some who love other plants, such as choice bulbs. 

 Pinks, Carnations, &c., more than Daisies, may even 

 use the latter as decoys to entice any slugs, wire- 



worms, and other vermin from them. This is saidl 

 to be effective, but is very far from being compli- 

 mentary to the Daisies, which deserve a better fate 

 than that of being converted into vermin-traps for 

 other plants. 



The I'orget.me-not. — Next to Daisies, this, if 

 better known, would probably be the most popular of 

 all garden plants. Not a few, however, imagine that 

 there is but one Forget- 

 me-not, the one named 

 through the romantic 

 tragic legend that 

 cost the lover his Hfe, 

 and riveted the name 

 to the plant, as he 

 faintly and finally 

 uttered it before he 

 sank to rise no more. 

 But this, of course, is a 

 mistdJce. There are a 

 great many varieties of 

 Forget-me-nots grown 

 in gardens, and it also 

 happens that the parti- 

 cular one {Myosotis pa- 

 lustris) being an aquatic 

 is seldom found there. 

 As it is however one of 

 the most beautiful, in 

 fact the most strikingly 

 romantic in fiction, it 

 should find a place 

 wherever a little water 

 or a damp border can be 

 found, for this is really 

 the true Forget-me-not. 

 Among the most use- 

 ful of the other Forget- 

 * me-nots for the garden 

 I is the dwarf Alpine 

 Forget-me-not [Myoso- 

 tis rupicola), found in 

 Scotland. This seldom grows more than three inches 

 high. The flowers are of the richest azure-blue, of a 

 large size, and the foliage is also rather large for the 

 size of the plant. 



M. alpestris, or Alpine Forget-me-not, is a very 

 rich-coloured dwarf, rather taller, but otherwise re- 

 sembling, if not identical with, the Eock Forget-me- 

 not of Scotland, already named (vlf. rupicola) . 



M. azorica is a much darker species, introduced 

 from the Azores in 1846. This is one of the earliest 

 Forget-me-nots, and, like aU the rest of the, early- 

 flowering section, it very often blooms in April, and 

 has a large percentage of rose-tinted bloom. There 



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