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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Henry T. Williams, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1875. 
Price 12 Cents, 
By Henry T. Williams, 
APPLE GERANIUM. 
In reply to Mrs. Thurlow, I can tell her of my suc¬ 
cess. I have a splendid apple, just a year old, raised 
from the slip. I kept it in a four or five-inch pot, all 
Tritoma.—I have a Tritoma Uvaria which has re¬ 
mained in the ground undisturbed for the last two years. 
It was planted on the south side within eight or ten 
inches of the house, and with a covering of dry leaves 
night. I watered it frequently, almost daily, with 
tepid water; it stood “ dressed in living green ” all the 
time, hut did not grow till spring, when I put it in a 
large box and it grew like Jack’s Bean Stalk. I keep 
A Chinese Flower Garden. 
the flower buds nipped off, as the flowers add little to the earth around it freezes but 
its beauty, and this makes the leaves grow to huge grows and blooms as beautili 
size. C. I. G% moved everv autumn to the cel 
last winter, in a south window; the soil was fine wood- 
pile manure. The sitting room, where it was, had a 
large wood fire all day, but it was allowed to go out at 
