Show the tito fragrant rant heliotrope yon you may give a heliotrope and not a very largo large plant as much water as you give a geranium and think you arc are riving giving a all 11 that Is required your plant will fail fall to make a vigorous and healthy growth because it is not moist enough at the roots examine it and you will find that the tiny roots have extracted the moisture almost wholly if not given more water at once some of the young and delicate roots are injured and the plant takes on a diseased condition from which it often never recovers do not get the idea from what I 1 have said that the soil in which heliotropes helio tropes are grown ought to bo kept wet not atall at all but because it require more moisture than many plants because it extracts more rapidly from the soil water should be given oftener to keep the soil in the proper condition eben 11 rexford in ladies ladics home journal |