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THE FLORIST. 
with our correspondent, that there will be an advantage obtained by 
our invariably following the plan suggested.—E ditor. 
RUSSIAN VIOLETS. 
If runners are taken about the months of June or July, and pricked 
out under a south or west wall, they will give a good supply of 
flowers through the whole of the autumn and best part of the winter. 
I have a narrow slip, about a foot wide, under a west wall covered 
with fruit-trees, planted in this way, from which I have been gather¬ 
ing flowers all through the autumn up to this time. They give out 
their scent directly they are taken into the warm room. The plants 
do best parted every year, or, at the furthest, two years. They 
will do in almost any soil. 
Jan. 20th, 1848. Viol ace a. 
KEEP YOUR GLASS CLEAN. 
During the dull months of the year, attention should be paid to the 
glass of all kinds of horticultural buildings, frames, &c., to keep it 
quite clean. Let any one take the pains, on a wet dull morning, to 
rub a hair-broom up and down the sashes, and afterwards wash them 
with a garden-engine, or by other means, and he cannot fail to ob¬ 
serve the difference in the amount of light admitted to the plants. 
Now at this time of the year, such additional light is invaluable as 
an element of good cultivation. 
