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desired temperature. The coop (as I call it) also 

 has a double bottom which allows the warm air 

 from the room to pass under it, so that the plants 

 are kept warm from underneath. I also have 

 double glass throughout, which prevents the cold 

 air from striking the inner glass. I also find it 

 handy to put bulbs in after they have been brought 

 up from the dark. The whole thing can be taken 

 down in the summer, as four screw nails hold it up 

 to the window frame. 



I also have a glass enclosed projection from the 

 cellar window where I keep my geranium slips, 



An ideal way in which to keep geranium slips over 

 winter. A cellar-window hothouse 



which gets the heat from the coal furnace in the 

 cellar. I have a shelf to draw the plants out on if 

 the temperature outside goes down much below 

 zero, and I also have double glass on this box, with 

 manure banked on the outside, and a glass shelf 

 to put the plants on so as to let light down to the 

 lower plants. From these places I put the plants 

 into coldframes in the spring. 



New York. A. Martin. 



Let Cosmos Selfsow 



FOR years I have considered cosmos indis- 

 pensable and in order to secure a profusion of 

 early bloom I have always started it indoors 

 or in a frame, choosing the very earliest varieties. 

 An exceedingly early sort, Miss Julia E. Lee, gives 

 rather small flowers at the beginning of August. 

 Tints of Dawn is another favorite early blooming 

 hybrid. 



It never occurred to me that by any chance 

 cosmos would easily sow itself. A few years ago, 

 some plants ripened seed which scattered in the 

 fall; the following spring a number of young plants 

 appeared and bloomed June 20th, — weeks earlier 

 than those from spring sown seed. 



Since then I have deliberately allowed a few of 

 the largest and earliest blossoms to perfect their 

 seed. The young plants are far stronger than those 

 grown in the ordinary way, are well pinched back 

 to induce bushy growth and early flowering, and, 

 growing naturally closer together than plants set 

 out by hand, support one another so that they 

 rarely need staking. The majority of cosmos 

 plants need some support, so they are often massed 

 against fences or have to be staked. I have taken 

 advantage of this habit of theirs and always grow 

 some back of foxgloves and sweet Williams; when 

 the season of bloom for these is past, the flower 

 heads are cut off, and I draw the cosmos down over 

 and among the plants. As cosmos will root at the 

 joints and along the stems wherever they touch 

 the soil, the bent stems soon firmly anchor the 

 plants in their new position. I sometimes cover 

 part of the main stalk with soil to help matters 

 along. 



New York. Mary B. Paret. 



