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THE FLORAL WORLD 



as I can bear the hand in — pour this 

 on the roots — keep the foliage bright 

 and green by spraying daily with a 

 fine spray, and twice a week give a 

 stimulus of liquid fertilizer. After the 

 foliage gets a good start I make a 

 kind of trellis or fence around it, to 

 hold it up. 



I move plants from east to west 

 windows daily, to give all the sunshine 

 possible, and then I have an abund- 

 ance of these sweetly fragrant, trum- 

 pet-shaped flowers during the dreari- 

 est months of the year. Your success 

 depends upon securing the largest 

 sized bulbs and starting them early. 



Kentucky. Miss Laura Jones. 



FLOWERS FOR THE DINING-TABLE. 



The dining table for every day is 

 not complete without flowers. Durir.g 

 summer this is not difficult, for there 

 are many suitable flowers. I prefer 

 vases of clear glass, suggestive cf 

 cool, sparkling water — how beautiful 

 the stems appear in them. For the 

 breakfast table these hot mornings 

 nothing equals the bright spicy nastur- 

 tiums arranged with their own leaves. 

 For "green" for sweet peas I use the 

 foliage of the garden peas. Pansies 

 are fine with their own foliage. Phlox 

 and pinks appear very nice on the din- 

 ing ta^Dle. Roses are sweetest and 

 best of all, but one likes the more 

 common plants for a change. In the 

 fall cosmos, asters and chrysanthe- 

 mums can be used. 



In winter, when flowers are not so 

 plentiful, and "green" still more rare, 

 I place a modest jardiniere on the ta- 

 ble and set a pot of some plant in 

 flower in it. Primroses are fine. Free- 

 sias, narcissus, Chinese sacred lilies, 

 hyacinths, roses and heliotrope are 

 each used this way. Sometimes a pot 

 of asparagus plumosus nanus, or some 

 choice fern, is used in place of a flow- 

 ering plant. 



Ohio. Annice Bodey Calland. 



A PLEA FOR OLD AGE. 



Just a word to our flower-loving 

 readers who have homes of their own. 

 How delightful it will be as old age 

 creeps along and we are not able to 

 care for flowers, to go out in our gar- 

 den and gather flowers for the table 

 or sick friend or neighbor. 



Begin now to plant hardy bulbs and 

 shrubs. For bulbs there are the snow- 

 drops, scilla, crocus, hyacinth, tulip, 

 lily of the valley, iris, and many oth- 

 ers. In the spring I often go and see 

 the beautiful blossoms of the snow- 

 drop and scilla peeping up through the 

 snow which has fallen the night be- 

 fore, looking as bright as ever. 



For shrubs there are the spirea, 

 deutzia, snowball, althea, lilac, phila- 

 delphus or mock orange, forsythia, 

 weigela, hydrangea, cydonia japonica, 

 syringa, yucca, and the roses to plant 

 where you can flnd room. 



If your pocketbook is very light, 

 just plant two or three every year, 

 then in a short time you will have a 

 nice collection to gather from all sum- 

 mer when you are not able to care for 

 annuals. 



Conn. R. J. Bradley. 



EARLY FALL PREPARATIONS. 



I want to tell the readers of The 

 Floral World how I raise plants from 

 the seed to fill my beds for summer 

 blooming. I begin in the fall by fill- 

 ing boxes with rich, mellow garden 

 soil and storing in the cellar. In Jan- 

 uary I fill shallow boxes by putting in 

 charcoal as drainage and filling with 

 garden soil and sowing the seed and 

 carefully pressing down the soil. 

 Then I take brown wrapping paper, 

 cut the size of the box and dampen it 

 and place over the box, placing it in 

 my sunny bow window, and in a sur- 

 prisingly short time tiny green shoots 

 will appear. At the present writing I 



