AMONG THE FLOWERS WITH REXFORD 



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rudbeckia entirely hardy?" Yes, I 

 have never heard of its failing to stand 

 the severest winter weather unprotected. 



Ponderosa Lemon. — Give a loamy soil 

 into which some sand is worked, and fer- 

 tilize the plant well when it is growing. 

 Make the earth firm about its roots. 



Easter Lily. — Xo bulb which has been 

 forced can be depended on for a second 

 crop of flowers. The proper thing to do is 

 to procure fresh bnlbs each season. 



Water Hyacintli. — Winter in cellar. Set 

 the plant away in the tub in which it grew 

 during summer. Xext spring give it a 

 larger tub, or divide the old roots. 



Water Required ly Palms. — Follow the 



good old rule — water when the surface of 

 the soil looks dry, then give enough to 

 saturate all the soil in the pot. 



Worms 071 Nastwtiums. — Apply Paris 

 green, prepared as for application to the 

 potato. Be sure that it reaches all parts 

 of the plants. 



Ageratum. — This annual makes a very 

 satisfactory plant for winter. Pot old 

 plants, but cut them back severely. 



Lohelia. — This plant is a good winter- 

 bloomer. Procure seedling plants if you 

 want them for winter use. 



Bach Numhers of Home and Flowers 

 Wanted. — Apply to the publishers at 

 Springfield, 0. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF A COHXTEY HOME 



By E. P. Powell 



THE average country home is not what 

 it will be when social changes now 

 going on are perfected. In the first 

 place the house will not be planted close 

 by the street, to catch the dust and get the 

 rattle of passing teams. This was a de- 

 vice when farm life was isolated, to reduce 

 isolation to as low a degree as possible. 

 The rural dweller found some society in 

 living as near the public drive as he could 

 set his house — and where he could see his 

 neighbors drive by. Every stranger was 

 a godsend to break monotony. This 

 sense of isolation is rapidly passing away, 

 since any farmer can talk with his neigh- 

 bors ' for miles around. The trolley is 

 rapidly spreading its tracks to the remoter 

 hamlets, and making intercommunication 

 as easy as in the city. The country house 

 will now naturally find its location farther 

 from the street, and where the occupants 

 will be in the pleasantest, completest con- 

 tact with nature. It will naturally be 

 built on a rise of ground commanding the 

 landscape; so that the occupant can prac- 

 tically own the valleys and hills far be- 

 yond his legal limits. As Emerson says : 



One harvest from your field 



Homeward brought your oxen strong, 

 But another crop your acres yield 



Which I gather in a song. 



ONE OF THE BLOOMERS IN SOUTHERN GARDENS 



