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butterflies. The klondike grows as 

 vigorous and rank as a weed. With 

 rich soil and a generous supply of 

 water, its reward is a profusion of 

 large, rich, orange-colored flowers. 

 Last June I put two "suckers" or 

 sprouts in a small box of rich soil. 

 They grew three feet high and 

 bloomed as early as the original plant. 

 I brought them in before frost and 

 used as a background for my chrysan- 

 themums, thus white, pink, yellow and 

 "cloth of gold," with klondike tower- 

 ing above them all Sisters, "go thou 

 and do likewise." 

 Kentucky. Mary Jemison. 



THE HOYA CARNOSA. 



A beautiful summer blooming vine 

 is the hoya carnosa. It was a favorite 

 of my mother's, and in the summer 

 she trained it against the wall, under 

 the south porch, where it grew and 

 blossomed to perfection in a six-inch 

 pot of sandy soil. Every evening the 

 vessel was filled to overflowing with 

 water. The blossoms are star-shaped 

 with scarlet centers; the texture is 

 like wax. 



As fall weather set in the plant was 

 transferred to the bay window, with 

 southwestern exposure, where it would 

 be allowed to rest. It needs very lit- 

 tle attention until spring, untxi growth 

 commences again, when you must 

 once more become kind and give your 

 hoya a top-dressing of good soil or a 

 good drink of some fertilizer every 

 week or so and keep the heavy leaves 

 wiped free from dust. If the vine is 

 treated thus it will not fail to blossom, 

 but it is of very slow growth. The 

 plant can be propagated from a leaf. 

 Insert the stem in the soil under its 

 parent and after some weeks you will 

 be rewarded with a growing plant; or, 

 rather, I should' say months, as this 

 plant is very, very tardy in starting. 



Pa. Mrs. Samuel R. Welsh. 



THE UMBRELLA PLANT. 



First, you want to know how to get 

 one. If you can't afford to buy one, 

 just beg a leaf, that has begun to fade, 

 from some one who has a plant, take 

 it home and place it top down in a 

 glass or bottle of water and set in 

 the south or east window. In a couple 

 of weeks there will be roots and 

 leaves growing out just at the center,, 

 and after another week you can pot 

 it in almost any good, rich soil con- 

 taining a little sand, and provide good 

 drainage. Water often, but don't let 

 it stand in a dish of water, as some- 

 say, for if the soil and water becomes 

 sour, as it sometimes will, it will spoil 

 the plant. They are prettier grown, 

 out of the direct sunlight, possessing a. 

 more dainty coloring. They grow 

 very rapidly, and one will soon fill an: 

 ordinary window. 



Minn. Eleanor R. Bartlett. 



A GOOD WINTER-BLOOMING PLANT. 



There is nothing I enjoy so much 

 as to write my experience to The 

 Floral World. 



At this season of the year we begin 

 to look ahead for winter flowers. It 

 is none too early to give this matter 

 attention, as a good plant cannot be 

 grown in a month or two. If we wait 

 until winter is upon us before making; 

 a selection we will be likely to get but 

 few flowers. One of the most satis- 

 factory winter flowering plants of re- 

 cent introduction is browallia gigan- 

 tea. This is a form of the browallia. 

 elata, which was at one time very pop- 

 ular among florists. A few years aga 

 a florist took it in hand, and by care- 

 ful management has secured a variety 

 which gives flowers several times as 

 large as the old sort, and of a very 

 rich shade of dark blue. It is a very 

 free-flowering plant, blooming in mid- 

 winter season when so few others are 

 to be depended upon. Specimens pro- 



