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These flowers, individually, are small, 
but there are so many in a cluster— 
often fifty or sixty—that the effect is very 
striking. Each flower is borne on a 
stem an inch or two in length, and all 
these flowers radiate outwardly from a 
common center, thus giving the effect, 
when a plant is in full bloom, of a great, 
globular flower. It is of the easiest 
culture. Give it a soil of rich loam 
mixed with rotten cow-manure, plenty 
of water during its season of growth— 
which is from April to August—and 
store it in the cellar from November to 
March, and it will ask little else at your 
hands. It will live for an indefinite 
time, increasing in profusion of flowers 
with age, and needing only an occasional 
shift to a larger pot. 
Imantophyllum is a plant seldom 
found in the collections of the amateur 
gardener. But it has claims to consid¬ 
eration which many of the plants found 
there do not have. It hears a striking 
resemblance to Vallota purpurea in 
every respect save that of color. It is a 
tawny red, or red showing a hint of 
orange. I'his, like the agapanthus and 
vallota, can be wintered in the cellar 
safely, though if kept up it often gives 
a winter crop of flowers. 
The tuberose would have more friends 
than it has at present if it were hardy 
enough to withstand early frosts when 
planted out in the garden. Compara¬ 
tively few persons undertake to grow 
it there, therefore its merits are not 
generally understood. But we of the 
North, where frosts come early, can 
effect a compromise with Nature in the 
cultivation of this really lovely flower, 
and grow it in pots. So grown it will be 
found extremely useful for the fall dec¬ 
oration of the window-garden and 
greenhouse. Put two or three roots of 
it in a seven inch pot of rich sandy soil, 
in July, keep them well supplied with 
water and exposed to full sunshine 
during the summer and early fall, and 
along about September they will send 
up'.flower-stalks three or four feet high- 
In October and November they will 
give a generous crop of white flowers 
with thick, wax-like petals and a fra¬ 
grance as heavy and rich as that of the 
cape jasmine or magnolia. Those who 
have never grown this plant in the house 
will find it adapted to amateur culture, 
and a very desirable addition to the 
comparatively small list of plants that 
bloom close on the edge of winter. 
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