The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-11-23
Msefal aud Curious.
CARE OF HOUSE PLANTS.

From variety of excellent and trustworthy
authorities we have been enabled to compile the
following instructions for keeping house plants
in a thriving condition:
| Keep the pots saturated with water. A plant
| in the house, under the glass roof Of conserva-
| tory, in bay window, or in any warm room,
needs five times much water a plant ont of
doors. Water your house plants Mt least twice a
day.
DO not water house plants oftener than once
| week. Plants in the house do not need half 50
| much water as the same plants out Of doors,
| where the process of evaporation is mnch more
rapid.
Water house plants only in the morning
| Never water house plant until sunset.
Noon is the only time for watering plants in
the house or conservatory.
| Examine the roots of your house plants fire.
| quently. They may be liberated. Ii it is too
much trouble to pull up the plants yourself, keep
| Q rat terrier about the house. Then the roots
| will be oftener exposed than the leaves.
Leave Your plants out late in the
| possible. The method usually observed is to
bring them in Just after the first hard frost.
| Then you will have further trouble with
| them all winter.
About the 18th of January go away for two or
| three days, and leave u servant TO look after
| your house plants. Then you can buy new ones
| in the spring.
| Always ask gentlemen who come to dinner
| with your husband, TO smoke after dinner in the
| conservatory, because it is good for the plants.
| This will save your sitting room curtains, and
the house will generally smell like a stale bar
| room. The housewife who invented that fable
| about tobacco smoke being good for house plants
was genius in her line, and takes rank with
| the lazy man who originated the myth that ci-
| gar ashes will keep moths out of the carpet.
Do not fuss too much your plants. The
| best way, TO care for them is TO let them
| alone
The scissors is rs important a factor in the
| healthy growth of house plants the sunshine
| and watering pot. Care for your plants as
| though they were babies. Trim, clip, prune,
| fuss with them, eoddle them; house plants only
| grow for people who love them and love to he
| with them.
Study your plants carefully, and never get the
names mixed up. 1t will kill rhodanaHsmHs d.
iiidhmeHiRgitis in a minute if You call il a pOlype-
| dEHkikoratus Observation-Disclosures.
In talking about your plants, you can always
| bet your bottom coleus that your visitor don't
| know a rag weed from a sunfoweT by their boz
| tanical names, and so you can pile on the Latin
| dictionary and matera medca all you please.
Unload the whole United states dispensatory
| and yonr caller will go away wishing she was
| Just one half the botanist you are and gnawing
| envy, like a worm in the mud, will play on her
| damaged cheek.
| A close room is very bad for house plants. But
| q two year old baby is WORSE. And neighbor
| who wants few cuttings 10 start, and chips
| your plants for herself, is the worst enemy the
| house plant has
| To stand the plant where broom will fall on
| it in the morning, and board will come rafting
| down on il in the afternoon, and tho hired girl
| will climb into it and fall down when she
PUSHES after lightwoOd, may make the plant har-
| dy, but it will not add to its beauty.
There several rules to he observed in
| nectiOn with the care of house plants, but they
| will suggest themselves TO You from time to
| time.-BUrliRgtOH HaTkeye.