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THE FLORAL IVORLD 



cured in early fall and put in six-inch 

 pot will grow well the remainder of 

 season, and make a plant three or four 

 feet high and one foot across, with 

 numerous branches, and every branch 

 flower bearing. Very little attention 

 is needed in the way of pruning. 

 When flowers have developed it should 

 be gone over and shortened at all 

 points, so as to speedily start new 

 growth. It will then bloom as at flrst. 

 Give plant light, spongy soil, consist- 

 ing of equal parts of leaf-mold, loam 

 and sand, water moderately. Few 

 plants are freer from insects of all 

 kinds, but occasionally the aphis will 

 try to establish itself on it. If it does, 

 an infusion of Ivory soap to spray 

 plants will quickly exterminate them. 

 Or give a dip bath. Because of the 

 peculiar shape of the browallia's blos- 

 soms it has been given the name of 

 giant violet, but it is, however, en- 

 tirely different from the violet family. 

 Ohio. Mrs. H. A. Woodson. 



A BEAUTY SPOT IN THE GARDEN. 



We sometimes secure a happy com- 

 t)ination of plants by accident. Where 

 we fail, we try again. It is to give 

 others the benefit of my successful 

 planting of a large fan-shaped bed in 

 the angle between two walks that I 

 describe it. Its straight edges were 

 bordered with dwarf iris, the round- 

 ed edge with mixed tulips, hyacinths, 

 narcissus and Spanish iris. Spirea 

 sodifolia occupies the center, filled 

 around with hardy plants. Its prettily 

 ribbed, brownish green, pinnate leaves 

 come very early. Every branch ter- 

 minates in a spike of dense creamy 

 white, fiuffy flowers, ten to fifteen 

 inches long. As it attained large size, 

 the border of irises presented a strip 

 of deep blue two feet wide. The bulbs 

 have increased in number and beauty 

 correspondingly. Valley lilies have 

 penetrated every part and ring tri- 



umphantly their thousands of fragrant 

 bells, flinging sweetness over varie- 

 gated myrtle, which carpets the bed 

 fringing its very edge, unfolding its 

 myriads of innocent blue eyes as un- 

 blushingly as though not practically 

 crowding out all else, except Crown 

 Imperial, whose sturdy stems refuse 

 to be denied their crowning glory of a 

 few days, when they die and are for- 

 gotten, leaving the myrtle undisputed 

 victor. This, like a true friend, re- 

 mains unchanged through all the vicis- 

 situdes of life. 



The spirea affords protection to the 

 valleys, its stems inviting the myrtle 

 to scramble up through them, slightly 

 rounding the surface underneath, add- 

 ing to the general pleasing effect, 

 which is pretty as a picture, even 

 when none are in bloom. 



Indiana. Mrs. Sarah A. Pleas. 



FALL PLANTING AND CARE OF ROSES. 



For the South, fall is the best time 

 for planting or rooting roses. The 

 plants ordered from the florist are 

 less affected in transmission then, and 

 in better condition every way. Roses 

 may be planted or rooted any time 

 when the ground is not frozen or too 

 wet to dig. The flrst secret of suc- 

 cess is good drainage. Drain with 

 anything handy except wood; that 

 makes "wood lice," which will destroy 

 your plants. After roses are well 

 started they will do in any kind of 

 ground, with a little care, but they d^o 

 vastly better in good ground with 

 moderate care. My garden spot is 

 good to begin with. The old settled 

 roses I dig about, and mulch with 

 good stable manure twice a year, fall 

 and spring, and prune either in fall 

 or early spring, and they certainly 

 pay well. My.- mosses and other 

 spring roses are solid masses of 

 bloom. After cutting each day all I 

 wish for the house, and giving to all 



