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Violets. — ^'Ought violets to be separated 

 and replanted once a year?" Yes. Use 

 only strong young plants. Do this in Sep- 

 tember, in order to secure best results. 



Sago Palm. — If this plant starts its 

 fronds well and then fails to mature them, 

 there must be something wrong at the 

 roots. I suspect deficient drainage. 



Jasmine. — I would not trust this plant 

 out-of-doors in winter. Lift it in fall, 

 crowd the roots into a large box, and win- 

 ter in the cellar. 



Azalea. — Azaleas which have been put 

 in the ground during summer in their pots 



can be left out until cool nights come. 



Plant for Name, — (Mrs. J. M. R.) 

 Specimen sent appears to be a variety of 

 native pentstemon. 



Night-Blooming Jasmine. — This plant 

 is not hardy. Large plants can be win- 

 tered in the cellar. 



Water Hyacinth in Winter. — Set the 

 tub containing the plant in the cellar. 



Plant for Name. — (M. E. C.) Acuba 

 japonica. Grown for its foliage. 



Crape Mijrtle. — Winter in a cool but 

 frost-proof cellar. 



Anemones. — Cover deeply in winter. 



THIS, THAT AXD THE OTHER 



IWA^^'T to say to our many readers that 

 I wish more of them would take the 

 trouble to tell us about some of their 

 experiences among the flowers. "In a mul- 

 titude of counselors there is wisdom." 

 Xearly every person who has grown flowers 

 has found out something about them that 

 perhaps her neighbor has not. If you have 

 an experience which seems a little out of 

 the ordinary to you, write us a letter, and 

 tell us what it is. This department was 

 planned for the express purpose of ex- 

 changing ideas, and I shall be delighted 

 to receive a dozen letters about plants and 

 their culture where one is received now, 

 with a view to using them in this column. 

 A. W. S. writes : 



"Last fall I purchased some of the winter- 

 flowering kinds of oxalis. I am satisfied that 

 this is one of the best winter plants we have. 

 My plants were in bloom constantly. They 

 brightened up the long winter days wonder- 

 fully. Oxalis lutea had bright yellow flowers. 

 I counted thirty-five clusters on it at one 

 time. In spring I found forty-one good-sized 

 tubers in the pot. The pink kind — rosea, I 

 think it is — is very pretty, but does not have 

 as many flowers as lutea." 



Lutea is good, but Buttercup is a great 

 deal better, as its flowers are larger, and 

 it sends up half a dozen flower stalks 

 where any other variety that I have ever 

 grown throws up one. 



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Here is what a California correspondent 



has to say about honeysuckles, as they 



grow there: 



"I wish you could see the honeysuckles 

 that screen our windows, and run along the 

 veranda roof and up to the second story 

 windows. They bloom naif the year pro- 

 fusely, and during the other half of the year 

 they have more flowers on them than I ever 

 saw on a plant of the kind at the East. We 

 begin to think that no one can know much 



A BIT OF THE DWARF GARDEN OF H. F. WILBRODT 

 OMAHA, NEBRASKA. 



about the possibilities of a plant until he 

 sees it growing under Californian influences. 

 What would you say to geraniums as large 

 as a good-sized lilac bush at the East, and 

 heliotropes eight feet across, simply a great 

 mass of branches and flowers? But we have 

 more wonderful things than these here. Our 

 old plants seem to be new varieties as they 

 grow here. Some of them get to be so large 

 that they suffer by the change." 



It is rather tantalizing to read letters 

 from California in winter time, when the 

 snow is two feet deep on a level, and the 



