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 nois. 



TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE. 



For ten years I have experimented 

 wath flowers and plants, and now I 

 look back to my first attempt with 

 wonder that I tried to work with them 

 at all. The failures I have had would 

 have discouraged an older person 

 long ere this, but I kept on and 



finally was rewarded with success.. 

 The greatest mistake I made was try- 

 ing to raise flowers under shade trees. 

 Of course, it was a failure. The tree 

 roots absorbed all the nourishment 

 out of the soil and starved the plants. 

 After a second trial I seeded the bed 

 with blue grass and now it looks like 

 the rest of the yard. I'hen I had a. 

 bed dug near the house and enriched 

 with manure. After pulverizing it 

 and waiting until the weather was 

 settled somewhat, I planted gladiolus 

 bulbs in it. They soon came up and 

 grew rapidly until blooming time. 

 Then they put all their strength in 

 the beautiful blossoms they gave me^ 

 and I was amply rewarded for my 

 labor. 



Among the house plants I have a 

 large hibiscus. It is a lovei red, an^ 

 some of the blooms will be as double 

 as a rose and some quite single. It 

 was a very small slip when I got it,^ 

 but now it is a good-sized shrub. In 

 the summer I set it in the ground or 

 leave it in the pot. Last year I left- 

 it in the pot and dug out the top dirt, 

 replacing it with new, and it bloomed 

 all the time. Once it had eight large- 

 flowers on it and was the wonder of 

 all. I keep it in my window all win- 

 ter. . ♦ . 



HARDY LILIES FOR MID-SUMMER. 



There is no other flower grown that 

 can compare with the lily for midsum- 

 mer flowers. The brush cannot paint 

 or pen portray the exquisite purity 

 and delicacy of the stately lily. As a 

 rule lilies are of the easiest cultiva- 

 tion. For outdoor culture these bulbs 

 require a good, sandy loam which 

 should be dug to a depth of sixteen: 

 inches and well worked. The Japan- 

 ese and Chinese lilies do best in a 

 clay soil. Bulbs ought to be set five 

 to eight inches deep and left undis- 

 turbed for several years, as they 

 thrive much better and give more 



