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Show FIELD, FARM, AM) HARDEN. l'AslE5 lit KANAf You call for " brief notes from the ladies, of their experience in the cultivation cul-tivation of flowers, with the pocn b-j't out." Now I think it would on) he fair on your part to enlighten us as to what is considered tho poetry par of growing ami taring tor flowers. The hoeing and digging you probably call plain prose. Yes, wc agree with you, it is ulain, very plain: but pot to bo allowed the privilege of oxpa tiiiting on tho bounty and fragrance of the flowers we have grown, and have I told you all alwut how wo pruned and planted, nnd hoed and .-haded, how wo enriched and pulverized pulve-rized the soil would, it seems to me, be something like the play of I lani-let lani-let with Hamlet left uut; and, is it a fact that tiie briefest and plainest statement of fads are the nio.-t readable read-able uf newspaper articles? In answer an-swer to your call here js a short chapter chap-ter of my experience in the garden, and the poet it part the lluwers thcioe1cs, I wiUrUain. Kery one admires Pansies; and 'the most uf people think it reijuires a gOLnl dual of care, or kuuwhdge, or s.omclhiiig imallaiiiahlr, (0 ,.VlW them and have fine flowers. With some choice l'aiiy ,-.eul I r.ii-ed and set out in the garden la-t spring a number uf plants. Through Hie svuiniKT they grvAV well enough, but although I kepi picking off the buds to prevent, flowering, they would not grow stocky as I wanted them to, anil by fall they were straggling, unpromising unprom-ising looking plants. I conclude I to place iver them for the winter, an old cold frame which almost dropped to pieces when we moyed it and see what that would do for them bv I spring. " , In placing the frame where I did I covered up a Hnurkin ro-e that lies down to the ground every winter, and a short row of the Trumpet N"areistis a Feverfew and a bunch of O.xalis. Two panes of glas- were broken out of flio stish. and I covered the boles with loanls. Dining the winter, everything inside of the frame w;us frozen just as solid as on the' outside, 1 and yet the rose has retained its last year's greon leaves ; the Feverfew' looked in April as weli as if kept in a greenhouse, and the Narcissus were i up anil out of blossom before others 1 on the outside bail thought of such a thing; and the Pansies ! well that little bed often varieties is tho gayest spot out-of-ilooj-s ! Commenced blossoming blos-soming very early, and for profusion aim size 01 1 lowers, meir ocatity surpasses sur-passes anything 1 ever saw, and are i marvel to all who see them. Dear me, that ""'' be poetry, and I did not mean to ! After working in a garden, and cultivating cul-tivating dowel's of all sorts lor a great many yea in, X feel that I have just learned how to grow Pansies, and the question with me is, was it the protection pro-tection the plants had from the iciml.t alone, that made all that difference? The plants had Hie same light and the same cold, as those outside. Iu December, 1 threw over the frame a piece of old carpet, which only partially covered tiro sa.sh, and which was blown ofl' many times when there was no snow to keep it on, and I really think it made little or no dillerenee. Still I would take the precaution another time to apply the carpet and fasten it on, had the frame been a good tight one it would seem reasonable that the plants should come out well and in good condition, but such a patched, loose old lox, renders the matter a little puzzling. H.vuKirr. Wvandotlo, Kansas. h'unil Xrw |