GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
does best in good soil, and thrives on being set in 
a half shady place outdoors during the summer. 
One that I have watched for four years has stood 
during the winter near a west window, only a few 
feet from a steam radiator. It would get quite dry 
at times, but never seemed to be affected at all. 
When a plant gets too tall for a room, and looks 
ungainly, make a slanting cut in the stem at the 
height desired, slip in a small wedge, and wrap 
the place with wet sphagnum moss, which must be 
then kept wet for several weeks. When you find 
@ lot of new roots coming through this wrapping, 
cut off just below the mass and plant the whole 
ball in a pot with good soil. Keep in a shady place 
for a few days, and in a short time you will have 
two nice, well-shaped plants instead of the single 
straggly one. 
A group of three long, slender-leaved plants are 
the next of those easily grown for their foliage. 
The hardiest is the aspidistra, with its drooping 
dark green leaves, each coming directly from the 
root stalk, and it will stand almost any kind of 
treatment. From one plant costing a dollar and a 
half five years ago, I now have two that are larger 
than the original and have given away enough for 
five more. It has an interesting flower, too,—a 
wine-colored, yellow-centered, star-shaped blossom 
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