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THIS, THAT AXD THE OTHER 



HEEE is a letter from Mrs. A. M. 

 BroTvning (Kansas Citv, Mo.) 

 ■u-Mch pansy lovers will find i^rac- 

 tically beneiicial. as well as interesting : 



A SUCCESSFUL PAXSY BED. 



• ' The pansy has always been one of my fa- 

 vorite flowers, and I had many times tried to 

 raise them in my flower garden, but without 

 success. At last, while looking over the news- 

 paper one day, I noticed an article on pansy 

 culture in which the writer said, 'I never had 

 any success raising pansies till E planted them 

 on the north side of thg house.' This was a 

 new idea to me and I proceeded to put it into 

 practice. About the first of March I filled a 

 box with good mellow garden soil, set it in an 

 east window and planted the see-.l in it. I kept 

 the surface moist until the box was filled with 

 strong, thrifty plants about one and one-half 

 inches talJ. Then I had a bed spaded the 

 length of the north end of the house with the 

 outer edge in the form of a semi-circle. I then 

 filled it with good mellow garden soil mixed 

 with a liberal supply of well-rotted stable ma- 

 nure, and transplanted the young plants about 

 three inches apart. I kept the surface of the 

 bed moist a few days till they began to grow 

 and seldom watered it after that, except during 

 very dry weather. The first blooms appeared 

 about July first. From that time till frost my 

 pansy bed increased in beauty. A solid mass 

 of purple and gold interspersed with the dark 



green leaves, it was the admiration of all who 

 saw it. 



This letter from Wenonah P. Stewart 

 (Dalhousie, New Brmiswick), contains a 

 hint which many readers of Home and 

 Flowees may profit by : 



DOUBLE J^AECISSUS. 

 ' ' I saw in the September number of The La- 

 dies' Home Journal that Mrs. "W. was asking 

 why the double narcissus fail to bloom. Until 

 this summer ours have always had the buds 

 wither, as she describes, and I was wondering 

 if nothing could be done. So I let them grow 

 till the buds were pretty large and then I 

 broke off the skin that covers the bud so as to 

 help the flower push its way out, as they always 

 wilted for want of air it seemed to me^, and 

 almost without exception they all grew to their 

 full beauty. ' ' 



Mrs. ■ E. 0. Campbell (Muskegon, 

 Mich. ) sends this very practical letter 

 from wliich amateurs will be able to get 

 some valuable ideas for next summer's 

 garden : 



NEXT summer's GARDEjS". 



' * Now, during the winter months, is the time 

 to begin plans for covering unsightly fences 

 and ugly corners of your back yard, next spring 

 and summer. 



' ' If you are going to use hollyhocks and wish 

 results the next summer, you will have to use 



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