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and the flowers, as an Exhibition poor.

There was no report from the State Horticul
tural Exhibition in Baltimore.

Questions

1st A member making a garden in a
new place has made two attempts
to get a strawberry bed and failed
and feeling rather impatient at the
delay, asks if it would pay to set plants
in pots and keep them growing in the
house, this winter? Two of our members
encourage him to make the experiment

2nd A guest has a hundred nicely
rooted plants obtained by putting small
pots in her strawberry bed and having
the runners take root in them, would it
be well to set them out where they
are to grow now? Answered in the affirmative.

3rd How shall we get rid of myrtle?
Give it to your neighbors

4th Has any one tried planting potatoes in the
fall? No one has.

5 Who have been successful with tea
plants? One member has one plant living

6th Will it be best to cultivate rose bushes
and fertilize before protecting for the
winter? Best not.

7th How raise foliage plants? In wet
sand replant in pot and keep