Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-05-11

warm water. and the space between the
two pots Is filed every morning during
cold weather with water that is almost
scalding hot. When real hot weather
comes about the middle of June | turn
the pots on the side in shady place and
leave them until August, when shake out
the dirt and repOt in the same pots. or
others of the same size, using fresh earth.
NV callas thrive wonderfully well under
this treatment The leaves of my largest
Gala are eleven and one-half inches long.
and leaf and stalk together measure three
feet ten inches from the top of the pot to
the tip of the leaf. Never use any plant
fertilizer of any kind. l always cut the
blossoms before they begin to fade, and in
short time another bud appears. One
plant that has three seperate stalks from
the same root had three blossoms at one
time last winter, and at present writing
has one blossom and two buds. | think
that the reason why so many people fail
with house plants is because they try to
keep more than they can care for properly.
Plants are like cats and children-they
like to be petted. am very fond of house
plants. and when my ship comes in |
mean to have greenhouse full of rare
floral treasures. but while that ship is
cruising around in foreign seas | must
content myself with few Of the plants
that | like best; so every fall | select n
dozen or so, enough to fill my sunny south
windows without crowding, and then l
doom the rest to the secusion of the cell
lar.
Beliotropes! wish you could see mine !,
I: is fully two feet and half in hight and
nearly fills the lower half of one of the
south windows in the sitting-room. 1t
has been in constant bloom since the mid
of last September, and this morning |
counted thirteen large trusses OF flowers
and nearly twice that number of buds on
this one plant. | have grown helitropes
for winter Towering ever since | was a
dozen years of age, and | never have any
trouble with them, and do not consider
them at all difficult to manage.
| should advise Eighteen year Old
Girl" to perfect herself in the branches
taught in the common schools in her
vicinity. If she has the right sort of stuff
in her she can do this without the aid OF
teacher. Let her also visit the schools
in her neighborhood and observe the
methods of teaching and of government
employed by the best teachers. And |
would earnestly advise her to join the next
class of the Chatauqua Literary and Scien-
tihc Circle. This is IA society for the pro
motion of study at home, and is of great
benefit to all whose early educational
advantages were limited. A four years
course of study is marked out, and all
who successfully complete the course will
| J;,oIa Nox, ali fnr Il
in October of each year. Address DR.. D..
H. Vincent, Plainfeld, N. j., for circulars
AMI further information.
While am giving advice | would like
to say few words to the people who
write to newspapers for remedies for
various diseases. If you are suffering
from dyspepsia, or any serious ailment,
consult tirst-class doctor and toloD has
directions 10 The letter. Let all quack-
doctors, quack- medicines, and all remedies
not prescribed by regular physician,
severely alone, or you will have cause for
regret when regret will be of no avail
Don't say that you have tried all the
doctors " and they could not help you. II
you have really tried all the good doctors
In your vicinity, and faithfully followed
their directions and received no benefit
therefrom, you might as well make up
your mind that your case is past cure. The
truth of the matter is that not one person
out of fifty will obey doctors orders in
regard to exercise, diet, ventilation, etc
They swallow the medicine, thinking that
the chief thing, and neglect to follow the
other directions; then when they discover
that they are growing no better they lay