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Show HINTS FOR ALL SEASONS Pot EaBter lilies In good, rough, open soil In clean pots. Shower tho potted plants dally and keep clean. Stick to tho standards unless you aro experienced. Do not try to grow ferns If you cannot can-not glvo them moist ntmosphorc. It Is hard to kcop flowers in a room or houso whero gas Is used. Get the hanging baskets and plants for them ready for use. Put a box of good soil, sand and old manure under shelter for emergency emer-gency work. If you mUBt buy plants, got thoso especially grown for window garden culture. For early lilies pot by tho first wcolc lit September. Get tho lilies In tho bordor as soon as possiblo now. Pot somo of tho young plants, or nasturtium, get into bloom In the sun-shlno, sun-shlno, nnd thoy will bloom a long tlmo. Nlco for a hall. Tho grevlllla Is a very decoratfvo, easily grown plant, and nothing is handsomer for a hall plant. Equal to a palm. It Is hotter to buy rooted carnation slips than risk thorn yoursolf, if you aro inexperienced. Turn all plunged pots to keep tho roots from striking through tho drain-ago drain-ago hole. Pot, plants that havo dono sorvlco in tho border tho last of this mouth and give them small pots. Some kinds will bloom later. Glvo water sparingly to all freshly potted plants until growth starts, Leavo out of doors as long as possible possi-ble or until fear of frost Primroses should havo a cool, but not cold room, with good light though not necessarily Bunshlne. Water carefully. care-fully. Select nothing for Indoors but healthy plantB Seo that both plant and soil are freo froni Insect pests. Repot all plants needing it. Many plants will do badly if potbound, whllo (lrtso that require It must bo well fed with fertilizers. Don't try to keep lousy plants. Thoy are as bad au lousy chickens. Get rid of tho inee :t 1, or throw the ilaitt away. for niBPcta. sulphrvtnbacco or Or trco, oil soap should bo applied In solution so-lution onco a week until clean, before" bringing Indoors. A hellotropo will drop its leaves If given too much water, or too Httlo. Ono must learn tho happy medium. It noeds a rich sandy soil. Rake up tho lawn clippings and fall-on fall-on leaves, storo them in boxes or barrels bar-rels undor sheltor, to bo used as protection pro-tection for plants later on. Do not havo tho potting soli too rich. Houso conditions tend to lnduco a weak, rapid growth, which rich boII only aggravates. A soil with no manure in it is best, nt first, wltli rellablo fertilizers applied after tho plant has become accustomed to Its new quarters and begun a sturdy growth. Two parts loam (garden soil), ono part sharp sand, and ono part leaf mold or flbrouB loam is right for nearly near-ly all plants, without manure Such compost Ib lacking in forcing qualities, quali-ties, which la desirable. Plants should tako things easy during dur-ing tho autumn months, after bolng brought into tho houso, getting established estab-lished for rapid work in tho early months of tho year. |