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Show Hints Amur Flowers. House plants ought to be stimulated gently once or twice a week. Rain water, o refreshing to summer flowers, always al-ways containi ammonia, which also) abouoda in all liquid manures. If you taue an ounce of pulverized carbonate car-bonate of ammonia, dissolve in one gallon of water, it will make spring water even more stimulating to your plants than rain water. It you water your plants once in two weeks with guano water (one tablespoonful to a pail of watftr), they will grow more thrifty. Chicken manure dissolved in water is excellent. Always keep' the soil in your flower pots loose. A common hair-pin used daily will stir the earth sufficiently, , |