Prolonging Bloom

No plant can continue in bloom if Nature is permitted to do her work completely, for thegoing to seed exhausts the energies of any subject, and stops everything else. By constantly reuioving decaying flowers before a seed-pod can swell, the growth of the plant and the continued development of new buds and lluwers upon the new are matters of course. Try the experiment upon the China rose. The cottages, having fine plants covering their froiits, being in the hands of two different persons, frequently exhibit the most striking contrast- one a niass of flowers, while the otner is bare ; and those who pay no attention to the cause are, nevertheless, of ten suiprised at the f act. If they look a little further into the matter they would observe that one is loaded with hips of seed-vessels, which are swelling in great numbers, while in the other not a solitary berry could be seen. lt is only necessary to cut away the dead llowers and the season of bloom will be prolonged. - The Farm.