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AND GREENHOUSE. 
often i-ecom- 
uonsen.se. 
THE WOTOOW HABDEir FOE MAT. 
If not alre.ady done, sow Chinese Prim¬ 
roses and grow them in a cool, airy, f.aintlj- 
shaded place on the piazza, or in a window 
frame. 
Keep growing the young Cyclameul^ or 
this year’s sowing, but the plants that have 
bloomed maj' be allowed to go to rest now. 
Don't frizzle them in summer, but lay them 
aside in a cool, shady place or i)hmge them 
out of doors an inch or more under ground. 
Calceolarias or Cinerarias should not be 
sown for a month or two yet. Pot the remain¬ 
der of your Gloxinias and grow to bloom 
in a warm but shaded place; there is no place 
so good for Gloxinias in summer as a. shaded 
cold frame. 
Show Pelargoniums or Lady ll ashington 
Geraniums, as they are commonly called, 
will now be in perfection. 'When they have 
done blooming don't diw them oft' veiy much; 
I would advise you, r.ather to plant them out 
in a slightly shaded spot, use their young 
wood as cuttings, and having secured what 
you want of young plants, throw away the 
old ones. My best blooming plants are only 
six mouths old from the cutting. Fuchsias 
should be at their best condition during Maj'. 
OI.D BULBS. 
Don't throw away the bulbs of 113'aciuths, 
Tulips, Xarcissus, and the like that you have 
grown in pots or boxes for winter flowers, 
but instead put them aside in some out-of- 
the-way place, and after the leaves die down 
then stop watering. Xext fall plant out 
these bulbs in a cold frame or in some suit¬ 
able place in the garden and let them stay 
there. The Hyacuiths will produce a few 
weak but acceptable flowers about Easter; 
after a j'ear or two the Tulips and Narcissus 
will become strong again. 
CACTL'SE.S. 
After hardening them off well, put every 
kind of Cactus out of doors. If you take 
them from a shadv' place and set them out 
at once in a sunny position they will ]>rob- 
ably, after a little while, look very sick, 
blister, blotch and peel. Vigorous kind.s 
like Cereus and Opuntias, it planted out, are 
apt to grow beyond'bounds; bettei’jjhiiige 
them. Hut all Cactu.ses Ui.at have poor roots 
or are in bad health, .should have the old 
soil shaken from their roots, and then be 
planted out in a warm, dry, sininy jdace. 
Phyllocaetii.ses set in shady j)laces in sum¬ 
mer may produce plump, green giowtiis, 
but if you want flowers next .sjniug better 
fai- have the shorter, redder growths made 
ill the sunshine. 
Epiphyllurns, however,, iirefer a little 
shade in summer. Wet is very injurious to 
Cactuses in sunimei-, tlierefoi-e see to it 
tliat they are not under the drip of trees, 
that water cannot lodge about them, and in 
the case of the choicer Mainmillarias be pre¬ 
pared to protect them overhead against pi-o- 
tracted wet or misty weather. 
When Cactuses arc growing they like rich, 
porous soil, and I have found that they es¬ 
pecially enjoy gritty, enriched eartli. Hut 
the necessity of lime rubbish and iiomuled 
brick-b.ats in the soil _ 
mended in old books, is simplj 
......ANlUMSl.’OBWtNTlCKm.OO NO 
Do„'. plant out 
II summer, but insie.m, 
plane by 
to 
T;--ti-.seVubo.l.routv,ah 
retain Intact all annni.or, lint msreacl, ^ 
Zl'™ anil agaln pot 
end of -Tnly. 11 yon get stout, stotty P 
:,";i..ooteLn,lest,bll.l.e<llntlre,tP^ 
fore cold weather comes, then y®'* 
sonably expect an increasing simply of Hoii 
ers from Octoher till May, but if you dope.. 1 
on the Geraniums you lift and pot in . -1 
tember or October, yon need not expeo 
them to come into good bloom again J ‘ 
next Feln-uary. The single-llowcred vari¬ 
eties are free-bloomers, but if yon want tlie 
blossoms for cut flowers the double varieties 
are lictter than the single ones. 
Heliotropes should be treated in the same 
manner as Geraniums. 
YOUaXr. 1‘LANTS FOl! WlNTKli ULOWEItS. 
Of a good many plants, young stock is bet¬ 
ter than old for winter use. Prepare a piece 
of ground where you can keep all the kinds 
together; in this way it is easier to attend 
to watering, mulching, pinching, staking and 
tying them, than it would be were they scat¬ 
tered about through the garden. ITominent 
among these are Carnations, Houvardias, 
I.ibonias, .Stevias, Sericographi.s, .Justicias, 
Paris Daisies, Poinsettias and Browallia 
.Jamesoui. 
PLANTS THAT PUllFUl! A LITTLE SHADE. 
A shady place, as on the north or east 
side of a building, hedge or fence, but not 
under the drip of trees, will suit the follow¬ 
ing: Fuchsias, Begonias, Camellias, Azaleas, 
Mjntles, Crotons, Dracionas and Palms. A 
southwest exposure especially should be 
avoided. .Some of these plants will thrive 
in the sunshine but they will do better in 
the shade. 
PLANTS THAT l.IKE A .SUNNY EXPOSUllE. 
Hibiscuses, Abutilons, Cape Plumbago, 
Foinsettias, Ficuscs (Rubber-iilants) of sorts, 
Century Plants, Oleanders, and vines as Pas¬ 
sion-flower, Thunbergias, Clerodendrons, 
Colneas, and l])oui:cas. If not properly 
hardened off before being planted or plunged 
out of doors, these plants are apt to be 
■scalded, and some of them, perhaiis, com¬ 
pletely defoliated; but if well inured to 
the weather before being set out, planted 
in rich ground and kept well watered, they 
do love the simsliiue. 
W.M. Fai.conek. 
THE MONTHLY PELAItOONlUMS. 
When I read about the new monthly Pelar¬ 
goniums in some of last spring's catalogues, 
1 woudereil whether it was woiHi while ti) 
try them or not. I have been .so “taken in," 
many times, by novelties and “desirable new 
jdants" that I was ratluii- skeptical in this 
instance. Hut the idea of a. Pelargonium 
flowering the year round was so attractive 
that I sent for four plants, two Fred IleinI 
and two Robert IleinI. ’ 
They were, small all'airs when they eaine, 
but they began to grow at ouee, and by the 
<;'» of «mnmer were flue, biLshy plants'. |u 
foliage and general habit of growth they are 
very umeh like other Pelargoniiiins, mid 
fbey Hhoweil no liielination to bloom 
IlH 
I’oi- 
«ome months after I proeiired them, I be.r,iu 
to think the “monthly” part a clever dodge 
on the part of the florists to sell the ordinary 
varieties of the Pelargonium. 
But along in September, when none of the 
Pelargoniums would think of flowering, j 
noticed a cluster of buds on one plant, and 
was glad to know that the “greatest acqidsi, 
tion to the window-garden for the last ten 
years,” as one catalogue modestly put it^ 
was not going to disapiroint me by refusing 
to blossom, as I liad feared, out of the usual 
season of Pelargonium flowering. There 
were fine, large buds in the cluster and 
inaibV more small ones, and 1 saw anotlier 
cluster coming as the first developed, and I 
began to think that perhaps I might liave a 
succe.ssion of bloom from these new plants. 
[ watched the development of the flowers. 
as anxiously as flower-lovers watch the 
blooming of the Xight-Blooining Cereus. 
The first flower was as large as the aver¬ 
age Pelargonium. It was white witli a ro.sy 
blotch on eacli petal, tliat on tlie two upper 
ones being ratlicr larger and darker than 
those on the other tliree. The.se petals are 
not like those of the Pelargonium, which 
dill'er somewhat in size and .shape, but were 
all about alike, thus giving a round flower. 
It fully answered my expectations. I had 
not expected a flower as brilliant or showy 
as our Butterfly Pclargoniuins. To look for 
suc/t flowers, monthly, was to ask too much. 
When the fine, large buds liad opened the 
ellect was quite like a cluster of some of the 
small white and pink /Vzaleas. The flowers 
are durable, and by the time the first cluster 
hail faded, the second one was read3'- to take 
its place. Buds appeared on the other 
branches, and soon the plant was covered 
with flowers. A small specimen had nine 
clusters on it, at one time. From that one 
may see what the ])ossibilities are, with this 
new plant. And my plants have kept on 
flowering steadily. New branches have kept 
pushing out, until each plant is well covered 
with growing and blooming points. They 
are vigorous growers, more busli3'’ and com¬ 
pact than the old varieties of Pelargonium, 
and more tractable, I think. 
Robert IleinI lias larger blotches of color 
than Fred IleinI, and the petals arc soine- 
tiines snil'used witli pink. The cll'ect of the 
flowers is very pleasing. 'I'hey have a mod¬ 
est a|)|)earance, and yet arc quite showy. I 
am confident that in them we liavc fore- 
rumiers of a new class from which we may 
expect great things 1)3' and b3'. Tliat tlicy 
are free-lloweriug I know from 1113’’ experi- 
eiiee with them. If we can oul3\get vari- 
eties with tlie gorgeous colors of the old 
Pelargonium, what a lila/.e of beauty wc can 
have ill our windows! 
Kuen E. REXEOKD. 
THE CAMELLIA. 
Fashion, which for some 3'ears past liad 
refused to recognize this queenly flower in 
geiiteid society, is now taking the strange 
freak of reinstating it to its former glory. 
•Mready elioiee displays are. seen at our ex¬ 
hibitions and in llorist.s‘windows; and sev¬ 
eral Inquiries about tlieir culture clearly h'- 
dieate the. revival of the (.lamellia; the fol¬ 
lowing dlreetlons given by K. Rand, di'., 
will l.herefore, no doubt, be of intere.st to 
many of our readers. 
'I’he. ('amellia should be grown hi Ujf*"' 
loam, or sandy peat and loam, say tlire.o 
parts loam, two parts leaf mould, oiW 
