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THE YOUNG FLORIST. 



ment. Last year they were put into large 

 pots, when they were taken out of the cellar 

 in the spring, with common garden soil, and no 

 attention paid to trimming, but grew up with 

 numerous stems ; the pots being crowded, pro- 

 duced but few and small flowers. 



This year I was more particular. I had 

 prepared in the fall a compost of two thirds 

 well rotted turf, and one third decayed scrap- 

 ings from the cow yard, which were well 

 mixed together and left in a heap until wanted 

 for use. In April I took some small sized 

 pots, and filled them with this compost ; in 

 each pot I put a single sprout, with a small 

 piece of the root of the old plant. They w T ere 

 then set in the window, and by the last of 

 May had grown half a foot or more ; they 

 were then shifted to a pot one size larger, and 

 plunged into the ground in a shady place ; if 

 any suckers appeared at the bottom, they were 

 taken off. In the course of the summer, the 



