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Work to he done in the Garden . 
fond of them, they are more suited for indoor 
growth. Your chief difficulty with these things 
would he in the watering. I never water pots of 
seedlings overhead at all — the pots are merely put 
to stand a short time in water. 
Cobea Scandens, Xpomea Quomoclit, scarlet, pink, 
and white — and Xpomea Rubra Cerulea, a beautiful 
purplish blue, are also things that do well with a 
little heat. 
People who have got a pit may easily have a 
hotbed. Old leaves partly decayed will give 
a little heat, or the gardener probably would 
bring on some seeds in the corner of a real hot- 
bed. The difficulty there is, that if you pay your 
seedlings too many visits while they are in the 
hotbed they will perhaps meet with dismissal — for 
it is not good for the cucumbers to have the 
glasses always opening ! These tenderer seeds, 
however, may very well wait till May, and the 
best almost that X ever grew were sown in a spare 
room window. 
May . 
Striking- cuttings is perhaps the chief thing to 
think of now. A few dead flowers will have to 
