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Feeding Sprouted Oats 
How much sprouted oats can be fed to 
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and how much can be deducted from their 
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Cyclamen; Saxifrage; California Fuchsia 
t 1. The writer of “Maryland Garden 
Notes” advises throwing away our Cycla¬ 
men plants after blooming. I keep mine 
year after year and it gets bigger every 
year. When I set my geraniums out in 
the bed in the Spring I set my Cyclamen 
with them, where it will be rather out of 
sight, so as not to spoil the looks of the 
bed, and forget it until August first. The 
top will die down, for early Summer is its 
resting time. About Aug. 1 the leaves 
will start growing, then I repot the plant, 
leaving the conn two-thirds above the top 
of the soil; keep it in a rather shady 
place till danger of freezing. The Cycla¬ 
men does not stand heat or hot sunshine. 
An east window is good for it. Some of 
my neighbors raise them from seed, but 
it is a long weary wait till they have the 
first blossoms. They are certainly worth 
what the florists ask. I bought one last 
year for Christmas for 35 cents—a blos¬ 
soming plant—which is cheaper than I 
could raise it. The florist said that a 
conn five inches across should be worth 
five dollars. Mine grows about an inch 
a year and is nearly five inches across, 
and lias sometimes had 25 -blossoms at 
once. 
2. Will some of you tell me how to 
make a strawberry geranium bloom? 1 
accidentally had one blossom one Winter, 
and have tried ever since to do it over.! 
It was beautiful, a tall panicle of little 
tiesk-oolored blossoms. 
3. I would like to know the name and 
treatment of a little plant called here; 
“California Fuchsia.” It has, under the 
ground, something resembling seeds. They 
look like green blackberries as much as 
anything. My sister planted some and 
they grew. Are they seeds, .and if they 
are, how do they form under ground? 
The plant is not doing well Ibis Winter. 
It seems to be a Summer bloomer. It 
has opposite leaves, shaped like Fuchsia 
leaves, and Petunia colored flowers. It 
is quite pretty in the Summer, hut I like 
plants that will bloom in the Winter when 
we need their brightness to cheer us up. 
MRS. II. M. D. 
1. It is quite possible for a window 
gardener to handle a single Cyclamen 
plant as described, hut not at all. prac¬ 
tical for a florist, wl;o must consider both 
space and labor. The Cyclamen corm or 
root loses vigor if dried like ordinary 
bulbs, but the treatment described more 
nearly approaches .the natural period of 
rest. Our Summers are hard on Cycla¬ 
mens, and where an attempt is made to 
carry over roots in this way a northern 
exposure is preferable. In commerce, the 
grower expects to sell Cyclamens at their 
first blooming period, about 15 months 
from seed: this gives an attractive size, 
with line bloom, if from a good strain of 
seed. Overhead cost is too great to carry 
such plants over with profit. 
2. The plant commonly called straw¬ 
berry geranium or beefsteak geranium, is 
not really a geranium, hut a saxifrage or 
rockfoil, boianically Saxifraga sarmen- 
tosa. It is known in England as “mother 
of thousands,” in reference to its habit 
of throwing out rummers which form new 
plants, and is a common plant in cottage 
windows, as well as sheltered rock gar¬ 
dens. Its beautiful foliage makes it a 
charming window plant in this country. 
It requires a sandy loam, with drainage, 
but sufficient moisture. Its requirements 
are very simple, but a heavy soil is likely 
to retard blooming. In Summer plunge 
the pot out of doot’s in a cool, shaded 
spot. It does not seem to enjoy our hot 
Summers. 
•>. The plant known as California 
Fuchsia is Zauclmeria Californica, a 
member of the Onagracese, or evening 
primrose family. It is sometimes called 
“humming-bird’s trumpet.” It is a na¬ 
tive of New Mexico, Wyoming and west¬ 
ward to California. It spreads by under¬ 
ground runners, and the fruit or seeds 
referred to are doubtless buds upon these 
runners. It. is a half-hardy perennial, 
and is used to some extent by European 
gardeners as a bedding plant, and also 
in pots for greenhouse idoom in late Au¬ 
tumn. ' L is said to he hardy in most 
parts o England, where it is used on 
old wif, or steep rockeries, its rather 
i sprawling ‘mbit making it desirable for 
this purpi It is an interesting plant, 
(with hand me flowers, but we judge that 
I it is not eeially desirable for window 
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