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HOUSE PLANTS 



plants to suffer for want of water. Look 

 out for mildew. 



The Ghent and mollis azaleas can be had 

 in bloom in about six weeks from the time 

 they are brought into heat. Some of the 

 Indian azaleas, particularly Deutsche Perle, 

 a double white, and Vervaeneana, a double 

 pink, edged with white and more or less 

 blotched with red, are hard to keep from flow- 

 ering, particularly if you do not want them 

 until late in the season, unless kept very cool. 



KEEPING OVER THE SUMMER 



To keep the Indian azaleas over until 

 another season requires but little vvork. 

 Put them in a light place, like a window, 

 until danger of all frost is past, when they 

 may be put out of doors. After flowering, 

 pick off the dead flowers and water freely, 

 in order that they may make a good growth. 

 If any shoots are growing faster than the 

 others, pinch them back, to form a sym- 

 metrical plant. Azaleas, like all members of 

 the heath family, are easily injured by too 

 much or too little water; therefore, see 

 that the soil is always just moist, never let it 

 get dry nor water-logged. 



