Show house plants in summer when tho the hot weather of sum summer summers merls Is at hand we must not permit our out of door activities to causo cause us ua to neglect our house plants tho the best place for grown folks folk children and nil all livis livi S things during the tha summer Is outdoors choro the sunshine and the fresh air can strengthen and heal making aIng rn ready for the next winter season of course the closer to natural conditions they aro are during tho normal growing season the better growth the plants will secure and the finer plants wo we will have for the house next winter when danger from late frosts has surely passed take less expensive plants the geranium the foliage plants and others of their kind and transplant them put them in good rich deep loamy beds it if you can or in window boxes it if the beds are unavailable give them lots of sunshine so BO that the stalks and foliage will grow rank and strong in transplanting spade up the bed to a depth of at least a foot pulverize tho soil finely mixing in fine well rotted stable manure and set seb the plants in the ground halt half an inch deeper than they wore were in the pots pack the earth firmly about them after setting it will do no harm to remove some of tho the old earth but the roots cannot be pruned or broken off to any grea 9 reak extent unless you prune back the foliage to an equal extents extent water the plants as soon as they are set and water them every other day at least doing tho the watering when the sun is not hot if it is desired to have the flowering plants bloom early and profusely pinch off the ends of half the branches so that the energy of 1113 plant will go to tho the flowers most people prefer to postpone tho blooming period until winter however and this can be accomplished by pinching off the flower buds during the summer as soon as aa they appear the r re suit will be a heavy growth of stalk and leaf during the growing season and profuse blooms during the winter indoors tropical and semitropical semi tropical plants such as palms cacti and rubber plants usually are too expensive to risk on the lawn and it is well to change the tha earth in their pots and place them in a sunny bunny position on the porch ferns ferna should have a cool shady damp location during the summer it if your plants have to be kept deptin in the house water fre frequently and beware of 0 plant lice and red spider the former attach themselves to the stems and under the surface of the leaves spray them with tobacco water plain water sprayed on dally daily will help the tha plant and drive the red spiders away in a very short length of timo time |