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Plant Pansies. 
Specimen 
Royal Show 
Pansy. Actual size, 
There Is no flower capable of adapting Itself to our 
climate that can be more truly called an “Ever- 
blooming” flower, showing buds and often open blossoms 
amid the rigors of winter. Pansies are one of my 
specialties, and the improved varieties I offer are of 
neat and very compact growth (not straggling like the 
old kinds), and is the very best seed obtainable, re- 
gardless of cost: and the flowers from the special 
strains I offer will surpass any others for flue form, 
good substance, velvety richness and choice variety of 
coloring, while their size is all that can be wished for 
in Pansy flowers of good keeping qualities. The in- 
creasing demands, both from amateurs and commercial 
florists prove that my efforts in supplying only tho 
best are appreciated. (See catalogue for full descrip- 
tion.) Royal Show Pansy, t lie very best, Pkt., 150 seeds, 
10 cts. MISS C. H. LIPPINCOTT, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Pansy Culture. 
To succeed with Pansies only the best seed should 
be sown — it costs more than common stuff, but it pays 
to buy the best always. 
Two sowings ought really to he made each season, 
young plants producing the largest flowers. Tho 
first sowing can either be made in the house or green- 
house, at any time between January and April, or In 
the open as soon as the ground can possibly be worked 
in the spring. These will give flowers all summer 
and fall until frost. A second sowing should he made 
between July and September. The plants of this sec- 
ond sowing will be stocky and strong and If covered 
with leaves or evergreen boughs survive the winter 
even in the far north. Care should be taken that this 
covering is not too thick, it should not exclude tho 
air. It is not the cold that hurts Pansies (uiul other 
hardy plants) but the quick changes from freezing to 
thawing are what do the harm. Stable litter Is not 
a very good covering for Tansies, as the plants are 
apt to smother underneath a dense covering. 
The seed should be sown thinly' and evenly In loose 
sandy loam, covered about % inch with the pulverized 
soil and the soil kept moist until the plants are up. The 
light and air should then be freely admitted so the 
seedlings will not get too spindly. The young plants 
are easily transplanted. If too cold so they cannot 
Immediately be planted out of doors when they are 
large enough, the seedlings should be pricked off into 
another box or the hot-bed — planting them about 1% 
inches apart each way. 
Planted In a rather deep box 0 to 7 inches apart, 
Pansies bloom finely and make fine veranda plauts for 
t|ie summer. 
Winter or spring sown Pansy plants should he well 
hardened and be planted out In April or May, accord- 
ing to latitude or weather. 
Summer sown Pansies should have a shaded bed in 
which to come up, or the soil will dry out and the 
seeds fail to germinate. 
THE LOCATION OF THE BED.— nave the bed 
where It will not receive the full heat of the sun. 
Tho east or north side of a house is generally a good 
location. If possible a cloudy day should be selected 
for the planting out. 
THE SOIL must he loose and rich; any soil really 
will do If thoroughly dug and well enriched with plenty 
of well-rotted horse or cow manure, mixed with tho 
soil. 
Keep the ground loose and well worked and allow 
no weeds to grow and pick the flowers constantly. 
The more they are picked, the more will come. Don’t 
try to save seed. 
In dry weather soak tke Pansy bed twice a week, 
a mere sprinkling Is worse than no water. 
Olve a cooling mulch of lawn clippings when the 
weather Is most trying, to keep the sun’s rays from 
the plant roots. 
Do the watering in the evening. 
Cut-worms are one of the Pansies* worst enemies, 
they et*t the plants off right above the roots. Take 
n sharp stick and go early in the morning, stir up the 
surface of the soil just under the affected plants. The 
worms feed until daylight and have not had time to 
burrow far Into the ground 
