St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-25
THE ROSEATE LIFE.
All Queries will BE Freely An
swered by the Correspondent.

All Queries will BE Freely An
swered by the Correspondent.
Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, Feb. 15.-I must
say that l am surprised to hear that
roses will not bloom in Northern Da-
kota, but that may have bit of truth
in it after all, not that the location
affects the blooming qualities of any
plant, but the conditions are not right.
Now, Mrs. Nj. III. L., do not expect any
great results from the roses you Oh
tanned last fall. If they do not bloom
as yet. they may later on. Judging from
your description of them just now as
doing so well in growth and all other
ways. As to the inquiries OF plants and
their treatment, | judge that the object
and aims of this particular department
is for the interest of all readers Of the
WEEKLY GLOBE, and often the depart
ment set apart for the home life pre-
sents the most
of weekly newspaper in many farm
ers' households. At least that is just
what am here for and 10 questions
that one may ask will be intrusive, or
an imposition, in anything that may
affect the home life or add to the happi-
| ness of it, or the popularity of the
| WEEKLY GLOBE. So send ali questions
| to me you or any one else may wish to
ask, and do not send them to the GLOBE
office, as | have assumed that part,
knowing that it is apt to become NUS
ance to the editorial Office of any weekly.
Again, the asking and replies are of
more real interest to readers than you
are aware of, unless experience has
| taught you that lesson. But this is not
replying to your queries. Years ago 1
| grew Itineraries and found that some
would not bloom until the second year;
were kept in south window and given
water sparinglY and one blOOmed in
January, the others in the early spring,
and l found they did no better in
the greenhouses of regular florist who
grew them for sale. Cut that hellitrope
down and set the cuttings in the soil to
| root, mes placethe box down cellar
until it cOnd warm weather-Some of
these plats are obstinate during the
winter season. Bouvardia Leianthe is
| the oulv variety of the B0uyardiaS that
/ ever had
BLOOM IN THE WINTER.
Its flowers are small and of intense
scarlet, and these plants will grow into
cute little trees if properly trained and
given water sufficient to keep them
growing in south window, and can be
set out in the flower border in the
spring. There are many varieties of
| this plant, and some are highly recon-
mended as winter boomers, but [ find
that they will only commence blooming
in the early spring, as house culture is
not favorable to most of them, and we
cannot all have greenhouses to fill with
| flowers. There are very few plants that
| require large flower pot, and one of
| our greatest mistakes is using large
| ones for the plants we grow, when the
| professional florist will have large
! plants in very small pots land so should
we use small ones.
You may keep many plants and have
| them continually in bloom. / have a
petunia in ''three-inch pot" that has
been in bloom all winter, and it is
STILL BUDDING
and blooming. The soil was good, and
| at times, at least once month. it gets
| good dose of rather weak manure water,
| and water is given ever day. Every day
| watering is necessity where such
| pots that are used by those that ecOno-
mize room for more plants or only the
| four. five or six inch pots, the trouble is
| TO get from our dealers any size smaller
than the five-inch flower pots.
| Never put small plant in large YES
sci of any kind, as it is entirely un-
necessary. and often the death Of the
plant itself. Sometimes / have obtained
small ''three-inch pots'' of the florists,
| or gone to the pottery and selected such
as | wanted of various sizes, when |
lived near the pottery. Some plants
will not bloom until the flower pot is
full of roots, or, as florists term it. root
bound. Large plants will do in small
| space if manure water is given regu-
| larly. Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.