. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. Removing tue Plant fuom Old Pot. thrive. WINDOW GARDENING regularity of other conditions. Do not allow the room temperature to getabove 70 degrees in daytime nor below 50 degrees at night. Watering.—The watering of plants is largely a matter of is offered as good advice that a plant should be watered when it needs it,and contrariwise 7iot when it does not need it. Water copiously once in twodays rather than a little each clay, unless the earth has become dried can be determined by tapping the
. Fruits, vegetables and flowers, a non-technical manual for their culture. Removing tue Plant fuom Old Pot. thrive. WINDOW GARDENING regularity of other conditions. Do not allow the room temperature to getabove 70 degrees in daytime nor below 50 degrees at night. Watering.—The watering of plants is largely a matter of is offered as good advice that a plant should be watered when it needs it,and contrariwise 7iot when it does not need it. Water copiously once in twodays rather than a little each clay, unless the earth has become dried can be determined by tapping the flower pot with the finger nail; aclear, ringing sound will indicate dryness; a dull sound shows a dampcondition and water not required. Watering at the roots is not sufficient,strange to say. Plants respond also to a wetting of the leaves. This can. A Well-proportioned Fern.^ be accomplished by turning them half over in a tub and syringing the not allow the sun to play upon wet leaves; it may injure them Plants.—Pot-grown plants respond to feeding up—theapplication once in a while of liquid manure—which is merely stablemanure and water allowed to stand a few days and strained. Apply theliquid once a month for two successive waterings. Bone meal worked in atthe top of a pot is slow in its action, but beneficial. There are preparedplant-foods which are valuable and convenient, but more expensive thanthese two. 1 Courtesy of The Countryside Magazine, N. Y. I^t SUCCESSFUL FARMING Ferns and Foliage Plants.—Plants should fit the purpose for which they arc iiit(>ii(l(Ml. If a gnMMi and growinK plant for house decoration(huing tin- winter months, one tliat can ho nio\0(l from place to j)lace, iswanted, the aspidistra, dracirna, cocos and other palms, asparajjus plumo-sus, rul)l>er plant, auraucaria
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