Show HOW TO CARE cane ri FOR FLOWERS FLOWE KS 0 for borms on petuna pet ls apply a IVe weak alt solution of hellebore i tho the artest way to make inake a kerosene emulsion Is to dissolve a good tobacco soap a bar to two quarts of boiling water then stir in one teas of kerosene use this occasionally sio nally to sprinkle the flowers with throw away bulbs which have been forced they are lacking in vitality and seldom give a good crop of flowers the second season here I 1 Is s a very good method of making liquid manure fertilizer take a small sack like the one salt comes in put the manure in dry tie it up and put it in a can or bucket and pour boiling bolling water over it let it set until it looks as strong as tea and then water the flowers with it one should remember however not to apply a fertilizer to any kind until the plants show signs of 0 gr growth howth Begon Be gonias lasare are well worth cultivating they are in some respects among our most beati beautiful ful flowers picturesque tree free blooming and not difficult to raise it if only care Is bestowed it seems to bo be a general opinion I 1 that young geranium plants will bloom best and give the greatest lq lf action faction the fact Is that old plants in a healthy condition are far preferable to young plants for winter blooming it takes at least a year to mahe make a geranium into a flue plant and on this account it will be readily understood that it Is impossible to get much returns florally while it Is under training |