Price 12 Gents, 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1875, 
By Henry T. Williams 
must not water from the top. I always water mine 
that way, and' always use water a little warm to the 
hand, as I think they are sensitive to sudden changes 
of cold. Ladies frequently say to me, “ Oh, I can’t 
keep house plants, they are so much trouble.” Now 
I do not think them trouble, nor do I mind the work. 
I take them a few at a time and hardly think it work; 
and when I am lonesome or downhearted or dis- 
___ couraged I always 
find a, panacea in 
my plants, and 1 
think every wo- 
would he a 
truer wife and a 
better mother if 
she cultivated a 
few plants. 
Mrs. T.E.IL 
Morris, Ill. 
the softest I can find, then it can he enriched as 
thought best. The best fertilizer I have used is a 
gallon of well-rotted manure and a quart of pounded 
charcoal put into two gallons of water. This can be 
kept in some convenient place, and once a week put 
in a pint of the liquid in a gallon of water and give 
your plants a good watering with it. I have found 
that if plants are kept in the dark two or three days 
I wonder if my flower-loving sisters watch for the 
coming of the Floral Cabinet with as much in¬ 
terest as my unworthy self. It is the first one of my 
papers that I peruse, and it gets read and re-read be¬ 
fore the others get any attention whatever. The 
questions and answers are my especial delight, and I 
have "wondered if my small experience would be of 
help to any one. _ __ 
raise them success- 
fully without gen- g g gB ffl fij p- - - — f lip 
uine love than they avLg, ~ 
can raise a loving ■HH§£p£*. 
family of children ==eb S431S?Iw „ . SH 
with the rod alone, .jjftfi:’ 
I have tried to 
inform myself all ’ 
man 
5 Onion. Lily.— 
' Having seen sev- 
j>,A-1 oral inquiries in 
ym* the Floral Cau- 
' IN et respect mg 
M": the name of plant, 
by some called 
Onion Lily, I 
gnPr 1 a line to iu- 
1®• form you what I 
' V"*?’' M > JMU know about it. 
Over twenty 
jl » years ago a neigh - 
vI^SbI bor S ave me a 
plant, which she 
called “ Squills.” 
It was exactly 
like the Onion 
Lily described by 
Isabel Bethel, in 
February number, 1874. Star of Bethlehem, the 
name Isabel Bethel gives for this plant, I don’t think 
at all applicable ; and, as for that matter, I don’t know 
as the name of Squills is any more so; hut I have 
thought that the syrup of squills might he prepared 
from the bulb, which resembles an onion from which 
a syrup is made for the same medicinal purposes. 
Hence the names. Yours truly, 
S. J. 
Easton Mass. 
/ 
Mrs Virginia DimmC 
