geraniums, as the drying of the cut end is 
conducive to rooting them easily, and they 
universally give satisfaction. 
The list of admirable and choice house 
plants is a long one, and new ones are add¬ 
ed every day. When the lover of flowers 
has a greenhouse, this long list may be free¬ 
ly selected from; but, if she has only a liv¬ 
ing room—and plants do better in a kitchen 
than anywhere else—the list must be se¬ 
lected with care. 
The calla lily requires plenty of water 
during the flowering season. It is :>ne of 
the best house plants grown, being sure to 
bloom. In the summer season I set them 
out under a shady tree and let them rest 
until fall, when I shake off all the dirt and 
give new soil. Give your calla hot water 
as a stimulant, commencing with it as hot 
as you can bear your hand in; then, as the 
calla becomes used to it, you can give it 
boiling hot. Give the calla plenty of pot 
room and plenty of water, and you will 
have no trouble with it. 
Geraniums when first set out in beds are 
very apt to cast their leaves. Do not be 
discouraged, new ones will come; for a ge¬ 
ranium is such an accommodating plant, it 
will grow without petting or coaxing, and 
very often where no other plant will grow. 
I was asked a day or two since why a per¬ 
son’s geraniums produced such abundance 
of leaves but no flowers. On inquiry I 
found the ground had been heavily man¬ 
ured. 
The seeds of perennials, that is plants 
that throw up their flower stems, mature 
their seeds and die down, to start up again 
the following spring, may be sown to bloom 
next season in June, July and August; but 
the earlier sown the much larger and 
stronger will the plants be and therefore 
more able to stand the winter. Among 
these perennials we find a great many 
flowers our grandmothers used to cultivate. 
There is the white lily, which has been in 
cultivation some 300 years, and is still a 
favorite. It is a spotless white, perfectly 
hardy and very fragrant, and is considered 
an emblem of purity. 
Than the bleeding heart (I purposely give 
it the popular name,) everbody admires it, 
with its lovely branches loaded with rosy 
red, heart-shaped flowers. Lily of the val¬ 
ley, I know all who read this will appre¬ 
ciate, for it is a universal favorite. It 
thrives best in a shady place which should 
be made rich with well rotted manure. 
The foregoing perennials are increased by 
divisions of the roots, but very many others 
are produced from seed. If a good selection 
is made now and sown in the early summer 
you will have blooming plants from early 
next spring, commencing with the pretty 
forget-me-nots and continuing all through < 
•the summer with pansies, sweet william, 
sweet rocket, snap dragon, honesty, lark¬ 
spur, fox glove, columbine, hollyhock, 
wall flower, Cantenbury bell and others, 
and finishing the year with many colored 
chrysanthemum. Then among the peren¬ 
nial climbers we have everlasting pea, hon¬ 
eysuckle and adlumnia, although this last 
does not bloom until the second season. It 
is more properly a biennial. 
B. Bennie McGill. 
Fall Setting. 
As to the fall setting of raspberries and 
blackberries, the Fruit Recorder remarks, 
that last year we urged upon our readers 
the importance of setting these in the fall: 
another year’s trial has the more fully con¬ 
vinced us of its importance. Last fall we 
set out about two acres, hilling up the 
plants well when set, and the past Spring 
we set as many more. To-day those set in 
the fall are fully double the size of those set 
in the spring, while the failures to grow 
will number four times as much in the 
spring planting as in those set in the fall, 
and besides, there is so much more time in 
the fall to do work than in the spring. 
By setting in the fall, and a small quan¬ 
tity of manure thrown over each hill, the 
soakings from this going to the roots of the 
plants gives them double the start the next 
spring. 
One important point in growing small 
fruits, for either family use or market, is to 
get as large growth as possible on the plant 
or vine the first year, for in proportion to 
their growth, so will they yield. 
