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THE LADIES' ELORAL CABINET 
Large-Flowered Plantain Lily (Funkia grandiflora). 
over the roots of each plant and filled them with coarse 
manure. These hollows not only served as a basin to 
retain water, but the manure acted as a mulching to pre¬ 
serve the moisture in the ground. I never pinched them 
any, as I wanted to get them into flower early, and also 
to observe their natural habits. In August, however, so 
heavily branched had many of them become that I had to 
put a few stakes to each plant and run a piece of string 
around them, hoop fashion. During the dry weather I 
watered them heavily two or three times. 
Transplanting.— About the first of October I lifted 
and transplanted them to a position where they would 
show to better advantage when in bloom. As soon as 
planted I gave them a thorough soaking of water and 
afterward, for a few days, sprinkled them overhead once 
or twice a day. Very few of them wilted at all. 
Habits. —They differed considerably. Some were in¬ 
clined to be tall and straight, others broad and sprawly ; 
some were high, broad and compact, others low, broad 
and cushion-shaped ; some were weak and others strong. 
In the foliage, too, they differed a good deal. 
Flowers. —Some showed flower-buds early in Sep¬ 
tember, others not till October; some were in full bloom 
about the middle of October, and others have now (No- 
