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HELPFUL HINTS. 



Geraniums. — When your geranium 

 leaves become yellow or look like drop- 

 ping, remove them and tuck them down 

 into the earth. They will enrich the soil 

 and you will be well paid for the little 

 trouble. 



Calla Lilies. — I have found that noth- 

 ing is better than to put a tablespoonful 

 of castor oil in a gutter around the plant 

 once a week. 



Slugs. — Any choice plants may be 

 preserved from the ravages of slugs by 

 placing a few pieces of garlic near them. 

 No slugs will approach the smell of garlic. 



Amaryllis. — If anyone has an ama- 

 ryllis she will find it will blossom more 

 freely if the soil is kept away from the 

 top of the bulb. It should be watered 

 freely. 



Ohio. Christina Hug. 



[Instead of doses of castor oil, why not imitate 

 nature more closely and provide food in the form 

 of humus (decayed vegetable matter) for your 

 callas? Garlic certainly should keep slugs away. 

 Has it any effect on cut worms? Have you ever 

 seen an amaryllis bulb grow and bloom without 

 water, soil or planting in any way? They some- 

 times do it ] . 



GETTING 



TO OKLAHOMA FLOWER LOVERS. 



Two years ago I sowed a packet of 

 midget or fairy rose seed. Thirty came 

 up and five survived and blossomed with- 

 in sixty days from the time of sowing. 

 They were dainty little pot plants, some 

 were double and some were semi-double. 

 At the same time I sowed a packet of 

 baby primrose which was truly a thing of 

 beauty and fragrance. I have an otaheite 

 orange with seven oranges on it. I put it 

 in the open ground in the summer then 

 lift it and bring it in the house in the 

 winter. 



Molly Gilbert, try moss verbenia and 

 sweet alyssum. They flourish in our hot 

 sun and winds. For two winters I have 

 grown the Bermuda buttercup oxalis, and 

 it is indeed a continual bloomer. My 

 weeping latana is loaded with buds. Let 

 us hear from other Oklahoma flower 

 lovers. Mrs. Alice Thompson. 



Oklahoma. 



[Two of the plants you mention, the "baby 

 primrose" and the " Bermuda buttercup" oxalis, 

 are old plants, which fortunately, were not al- 

 lowed to sink into oblivion, but recently brought 

 out and pushed as novelties. They are well worth 

 cultivatingj . 





























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