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HOME AND FLOWEFS 



THIS, THAT AXD THE OTHEE 



I^YAXT to sav to the friends who help 

 me each month to make up this de- 

 partment b}^ their pleasant, practical 

 letters, that it is one of the most popular 

 features of the magazine, judging by the 

 commendatory words that come to me 

 from many of its readers. I want to thank 

 them for their kindness, and tell them 

 that people all over the land appreciate 

 their letters and the many valuable items 

 of information gained from them. And 

 I want to urge them to write more letters. 

 Let them be concise, right-to-the-point, 

 practical, and full of personal experience. 

 Our readers CATrywliere who can tell us 

 anything about flowers and their culture 

 which others have not told are most cor- 

 dially invited to do so. 



Mrs. Fletcher Johnson (Tupelo, Mis- 

 sissippi) sends this very interesting letter. 

 Her experience in working among tlowers 

 tallies with that of many women I know, 

 who have found lost health in the flower 

 garden. There may be hard work to do 

 there, but it is healthy work, and delight- 

 ful work, and the tonic of it leaves no 

 depressing after-effects. If doctors Avould 



prescribe it more, and drugs less, it would 

 soon become a standard remedy for tired, 

 wornout, nerve-tortured people. 



SOME EXPEEIEXCES. 



"In a recent issue of Home axd Flow- 

 EES appeared a request to flower growers 

 to send you some of their experiences. I 

 have had gTeat success with chrysanthe- 

 mums and California violets. Although 

 but an amateur, I have grown chrysan- 

 themums that measured thirty inches 

 around (five blooms to a plant). Would 

 like to send you a picture of some white 

 and yellow ones that I took up and put in 

 pots after they were in bloom. I have 

 most of my late ones in cold frames to 

 protect them from frost, though have had 

 but one that would hurt them. I have a 

 perfectly green chrysanthemum that grew 

 on a bush of ^Western King,^ with three 

 others perfectly white. It is a curiosity, 

 and I would like you to tell me what 

 caused it, and if you think I could pro- 

 duce more green ones. It is not so large 

 or well developed as the others on the same 

 bush, but is a beautiful green. I live 

 with my flowers, and always enjoy your 

 talks about them in Home a^b Flowers. 

 Am trying roses in a small greenhouse this 

 winter. Have also Lady Campbell violets, 

 hyacinths, freesias, lilies-of-the-valley. 



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