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HOME AND FLOWERS 



times a week to discourage the red spider. 

 In February or March, whenever it begins 

 to grow well, give it liberal applications of 

 some good fertilizer. The growing season 

 will be followed by a wonderfully profuse 

 crop of flowers. Every little branch will 

 be tipped with blossoms of the richest yel- 

 low. Its fragrance is delightful. The 

 room will be filled with it at night. The 

 foliage of the plant is fine and small, but 

 very profuse, and a plant without blossoms 



is exceedingly attractive. l^^Tien in bloom 

 it is exceedingly showy. By potting it on 

 year after year into larger pots we can 

 grow it to great size. I have one plant 

 about six years old which stands about 

 eight feet high, and is a mass of sjm- 

 metrical branches from the pot up. When 

 in bloom it must have thousands of flow- 

 ers, each spike containing from ten to fifty^ 

 and every branch loaded down beneath its 

 floral burden. 



NOVEMBER I^^ SOUTHEEN" GAEDENS 



By Mrs. G, T. Dj 



Southern Gardens. — The term is rel- 

 ative. The Potomac and Ohio Elvers 

 mark the boundary. All below these rivers 

 are Southern gardens. Washington City 

 also marks the boundary of Southern gar- 

 dens. Plants hardy beyond these boun- 

 daries are svited to [N'orthern gardens. 

 The rotation of the seasons, although never 

 so distinctly marked in Southern as in 

 ISTorthern gardens, is yet plainly discernible 

 in ^^'ovember as far south as New Orleans 

 and Pensacola. There are beautiful evi- 

 dences of the approach of winter in the 

 berry-bearing shrubs, and deciduous 

 leaved plants and trees, brilliant in scarlet 

 and gold. 



IIoneysucMes turn a dark, bluish green 

 but never cast their leaves in. Southern 

 gardens. 



The Boston Ivy is flaming in scarlet fo- 

 liage that will remain upon the vines until 

 well into December. 



Crotons. — The city of JSTew Orleans en- 

 dured a drought in August and September, 

 wherein the heat of the sun was intense. 

 The effect of the long continued heat upon 

 the crotons has been to make them rich 

 and radiant. The parks and gardens are 

 oriental with crotons in scarlet, bronze, 

 mandarin yellow, golden green and Indian 

 red. No finer plants exist for Southern 

 gardens. They are hardy bedding plants 

 from April or May to October and Novem- 

 ber, according to latitude. 



Roses. — All classes of roses here are 

 hardy. None of them require protection 

 further than a rich top dressing of the soil 

 and a mulch of fallen leaves, tan bark or 

 chaffy compost. 



BALTIMORE BELLE ROSE 



Noisette Roses are climbing teas. They 

 are of corresponding hardiness with teas; 

 that is to say, not as robust as hybrid per- 



