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A. From the description in your letter, Mrs. 
M., I think your particular trouble is much too 
much fertilizer. Your soil is very rich, and you 
are fertilizing, too. Pretty generous. 
Q. Blossoms drop off. I feed or don’t feed. 
All the same thing. Mrs. E.A.B., Kansas. 
A. From YOUR letter, Mrs. B., I should ima- 
gine the suggestion of Mrs. N. of Indiana (see 
above) would help. Steam from the hot water 
would no doubt turn the trick. 
Q. What twenty violets would you suggest 
a person keep if they were trying to cut their 
collection down to t number? Mrs. K.F.S., 
Detroit. 
A. Gosh. Well, Mentor Boy, Blue Butterfly, 
Double Neptune, Red Beauty, (this is an old one 
but the best red in existence, I think), Double 
White, (with blue markings, coming out some 
time next month. If you want to book an order 
for this, incidentally, please send your three bucks 
along with it), Violet Beauty, Rose Marie (also 
will have in June), Ison, Blue Eyed Beauty, Snow 
Prince, Lady Loreta, Sailor Girl, Bronze Girl, 
DuPont Lavender Pink, DuPont Hybrid 5 (the 
pale one), West Coast Amethyst (the most cheer- 
ful little plant I know), Red Bi-Color, Gorgeous, 
Ruffles, and a Fringette either mauve or white. 
Q. “Can you tell me what to do about Eeoall 
green lice? Mrs. B.P., Nebraska. 
A. Spray with nicotine sulphate. : 
Some condensed A.’s: MISS Z.T., LAKE 
WALES, FLORIDA: Sure, put it in another pot. 
Just get some soil, add about a third in volume 
of sand, get a larger pot, and pot it up. MRS. 
F.L.S., WISCONSIN: Don’t know about a white 
sticky bug around. the roots. MRS. W., OAK 
LAWN, ILL.: Modern houses being usually free 
of bugs which might crawl over your violet and 
pollinate it for you, it is usually necessary to do 
it by hand. There’s pollen in the little yellow 
“eye.” “Apply it to the little stamen which sticks 
out to one side of the center. If it “takes”, the 
blossom will fall off, and the stem that’s left will 
not dry up, but the little pod will begin to swell. 
It will stay that way for many weeks. When it 
shrivels, it is time to slit open the pod and plant 
the seed in very fine, mild soil. MRS. J.D.C., 
CHARLESTON, S. C.: By all means put your 
plants in east or west windows, south if-sun is 
Le directly on them. oe are giving them too 
much water, also. MRS. N , ARKANSAS: Have 
your WY, Gi put her plant in a sunnier spot. 
MRS. H. GEORGIA: Vermiculite (or sand) in 
potting soil, ‘by volume one-third of the bulk. 
More for itsy- bitsy plants, or less for ‘grand- 
daddies. 
Yours, 
“Fuss 
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