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Continued from page 206 



I mixed it with equal parts of sand and well 

 rotted manure; this I put in my shallow, three 

 inch high box and gave it a generous sprink- 

 ling, covering the whole with a window sash. 

 At the end of three days, the earth smelled 

 so sweet and mellow, I thought it ready to 

 plant; so on February 15th in under the 

 glass went the following seeds: Pansy (March 

 Beauty), Antirrhinum (Tall Venus), Phlox 

 Drummondi (Carter's Dwarf), Scabiosa(Azure 

 Fairy), Aster (Peony Flowered), Cosmos. 

 (Lady Lenox). With all of these I succeeded 

 but failed with Salpiglossis, Gaillardia, and 

 Gypsophila. I believe this failure was due 

 to transplanting them too young. It seems 

 to be safer to handle some things at a very 

 tender age while others must not be touched 

 until they are at least self-feeding — which 

 time must be judged by the leaf growth. 



When the seedlings had four leaves I trans- 

 "planted them into paper or ordinary flower 

 pots, putting less sand into their new homes 

 and giving each plenty of room. At the 

 same time I planted these seeds, I placed one 

 Spencer Sweet Pea in each one of 36 earth 

 filled paper flower pots, and after three weeks 

 of suspense up shot strong green leaves which 

 grew into wonderfully prolific plants. 



When settled weather came, around the 

 middle of May, all my seedlings were put in the 

 spaces between the hardy plants down my 

 garden path — excepting the Sweet Peas, 

 which were given an oblong bed by themselves 

 where each plant could be six inches from its 

 neighbor and could climb to its heart's content 

 over an old tennis net, and literally succeeded 

 in converting it into a mound of fragrance 

 and beauty. The Pansies nestled close to the 

 bird bath and the Snapdragons guarded the 

 stone bench, while the Cosmos and Asters 

 nodded with the autumn breezes. 



Leonice Price, Conn. 



Fuchsia Trailing Queen 



T^HAT some good old-time floral Fuchsias 

 *■ are finding favor again is most satis- 

 factory. Fuchsias are certainly coming 

 again and while we cannot utilize them 

 for bedding-out purposes when grown in 

 standard form as in Europe, in partial 

 shade if given an occasional watering they 

 will bloom freely the entire summer. They 

 make most satisfactory plants in pots, also 

 for window and piazza boxes when taken from 

 the noonday sun; and last but by no means 

 least, certain varieties make superb basket 

 plants. While almost any Fuchsia can be 

 pegged down and made more or less adaptable 

 to basket culture, the variety Trailing Queen, 

 which is of prostrate habit, makes one of the 

 finest basket subjects I have ever grown. 

 Either galvanized wire or wooden baskets 

 may be used, and it is, of course, an advantage 

 to establish the plants in a greenhouse. 

 Fuchsias like a light but rich compost, enjoy 

 doses of liquid manure and need an abundant 

 water supply during the growing and bloom- 

 ing season. Baskets of Trailing Queen hung 

 along a piazza and properly watered will 

 flower practically all summer, and if a few 

 seedlings of the Creeping Toad Flower — Lin- 

 aria Cymbalaria — are planted in with the 

 Fuchsias and allowed to hang down the com- 

 bination is a splendid one. Any one wanting 

 a really fine basket plant for summer, especially 

 for a shady or partly shady place, would do 

 well to try Fuchsia Trailing Queen. 



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