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NEW HAMPSHIRE

_Editor Mayflower:_

Let me give you a peep at my flowers this cold day in January, with the
mercury so far below zero as not to be neighborly and the wind blowing
and snow flying as only new hampshire snows _do_ fly, making necessary
constant intercourse with the stove, to replenish fuel, as on farms wood
is used for that purpose and farmers have no dread of a "coal famine." A
very large De Lesseps Begonia is loaded with immense clusters of white
waxy flowers; a Woodstock Begonia is brilliant with large panicles of
red blossoms, also Otto Hacker and Wetsteinii well filled with buds. I
also have in blossom an Abutilon and three Obconica Primulas. I have six
varieties of Rex Begonias, a magnificent boston fern, and an immense
acacia which, although two years old, has never blossomed, though the
foliage is lovely; can any one tell me why? through the columns of THE
MAYFLOWER, where we find so much help in plant culture.--_Sunie Mar._

NEW YORK

_Editor Mayflower:_

Last spring I planted two bunches of the roots of Rudbeckia or Golden
Glow. although it is what some might call a coarse flower yet its color
is fine and very showy, and i know of no plant that blossoms so
continuously as the Golden Glow, and it is a plant that never tires of
growing and sending out new blossoms from early summer until autumn.
They grow to be six feet high and must be staked otherwise the plant
will topple over. But the glory of my small flower garden was a bed of
Zinnias as they represented every known color, and was one blaze of
color from midsummer until au