. Vick's floral guide. d with a good,rich soil, and decent care, plants and flowers of thegreatest excellence are produced. Sow in a frame orbed, and transplant when two or three inches in Balsam loves a warm place. When the plants ap-pear to be making too thick a head, so as to hide theflowers, it is a good plan to cut out some of the brancheswhen small. The Balsam can be pruned to any desiredform, to two or three or even one branch, and on thenext page we have given engravings showing plantspruned in several ways. Some people, however, preferthe Balsam unpruned, being better satis
. Vick's floral guide. d with a good,rich soil, and decent care, plants and flowers of thegreatest excellence are produced. Sow in a frame orbed, and transplant when two or three inches in Balsam loves a warm place. When the plants ap-pear to be making too thick a head, so as to hide theflowers, it is a good plan to cut out some of the brancheswhen small. The Balsam can be pruned to any desiredform, to two or three or even one branch, and on thenext page we have given engravings showing plantspruned in several ways. Some people, however, preferthe Balsam unpruned, being better satisfied with a goodshow of flowers than with a few choice ones. Weshould advise giving a trial of several plans. Thesmall engraving at the right shows the Dwarf varietyimproved. As Balsam flowers have very short stemsthey are best arranged in a shallow dish or basket ofmoist sand or moss, one of which methods we have shownin the engravings. For the center of a bouquet a good -H-IJo c h e s t e r, * jL * — il BALSAM FLOWERS — NATURAL SIZE Balsam flower is almost as desirable as a Camellia, butmust be supplied with an artificial stem.
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