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Show VIOLET CULTURE IN POTS. A. McKay, of South Eraming-ton, Eraming-ton, Mass., who is one of the most successful growers of violets in the New England states, thus details de-tails liis mode of 'growing the plants In pots in a recent number of Garden and Forest: The, .growing of violets in pots for winter flowering is not a new method, but is not so extensively employed as its general utility deserves. de-serves. Since adopting this system sys-tem we have been able to produce blossoms superior in size and odor to any we have ever had from plantJ" grown on benches, and, what is of more importance, the plants have yearly increased in general vigor and exemption from disease. Being in a portable condition, con-dition, they can be kept in pits or frames until chrysanthemums and other fall flowering plants are gone, aud as by that time they will bJ well established iu the pots and blooming freely, they will continue to do so in the greenhouse under proper cultural conditions. |