St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-02
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The Care Needed to Protect House
and Flowering Plants From the
Frost '.s

The Care Needed to Protect House
and Flowering Plants From the
Frost.
Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi. Jan. 2o.--And the
piercing cold of last Sunday night fonnd
out the residence of little Alice Brown
and her pretty Towering window
plants" just that way Jack Frost
treated me, after all that have learned
of his tricks these many years agone. |
had covered mine, too, and fancied
the plants were surely safe; but the
cold air found them out, and in the
plants had passed the cold night,
i found the soil frozen hard about
them, and again tucked them closely
UP and left them until the next morn
ing. 1t was not convenient to remove
them to the cellar, to thaw out in the
darkness aud cool air. and the next best
thing was to keep them in the same
place where the frost first found them
until they were thawed out. They are
now all right again, and you would not
know they had ever met Jack Frost"
to see them as they are. Now, Alice,
when the cold nights are threatening to
freeze the whole earth and all it con-
tains into a solid mass.
COVER YOUR PLANTS
as closely as YOU can, tucking the cover
in around the bottom Of the plants, and
if you find them frozen in the morning
and cannot get them into the cellar at
once, just leave them tightly covered
until the next day. Then you will find
that the plants will show very little of
the freezing they have received. If you
can get them into the cellar at once do
so, and leave them for week or more,
as it will not hurt, and itmay take some
time for the frost to be entirely
gone in a cool cellar. Geraniums
and roses, petunias and verbenaS
will endure much of this treat
ment by frost il you serve them in
this manner, but not all house plants
have TO do as many older people have
done-learn the atmospheric changes.
and how much you can trust to. the cold
threatening outof doors and the chances
of freezing of the plants IN the loom in
which you keep them, and compare the
cold air outside as nearly as you can
with nights when it has frozen and
nights when it has not frozen in the
room. The Goth of this month was the
coolest of any day so far, and the night
came Oh so quiet and still [ did not
apprehend that the night would be very
cold, but it proved to be the coolest
period of a few hours duration that
has been experienced this season, and it
MADE SAD HAVOC
among house plants not we'll protected.
The very stiffness of the atmosphere
deceived ME in regard to the extreme
cold that reigned outside. And, Alice,
if your little soul is grieved over your
loss, just take up the burden and throw
it away-get more plants in the spring
and thermometer, and study out the
changes of weather, and remember that
the little boys and girls of to-day are to
be the men and women of the coming
generations, and your little ones must
learn oh, so much more Of this world
than those who now conduct its affairs.
You must patiently bear so many losses
as you grow older that this present loss
will be forgotten or remain as something
bear and forbear, but with it all
there is no escaping the fact
that we must bear all the ills
that come with the coming years, avoid
ing them all we can, as we move along
the pathway of life. All that we can
do is to profit by the experience of those
who have gone before us, and those
who are journeying along beside us,
avoiding their errors or bad examples.
L think your .'little head" will com
prehend what | have written without
my being more explicit. Next week |
will tell you about some more OF the
fertilizers that you and I both read
about. L have had many trials in grow
ing darling" flowers that often makes
me wonder at my past stupidity.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.