_Editor Mayflower:_
I ordered all my flowers from Floral Park and my flower garden is
lovely. Every one who sees it wonders how I can have such nice flowers
when the soil is so poor and the season so dry; but almost any one, who
loves flowers as I do, can have a nice garden with a little work and
seeds from Floral Park. Will some one please tell me if English Ivy can
be started from slips? I have been trying for some time to start one
from a slip a lady sent me, but for some reason it does not seem to take
root, but stays just as green as the day it was cut. [It may be rooted
in a bottle of water.--Ed.] I bought, from a neighbor's little boy, a
package of mixed seed and among them was only one nice flower, but I do
not know what it is, and no one around here knows what it is, or have
ever seen any flower like it before. I planted the seed last year and
when the flowers were good size I found this plant almost in bloom, so I
took it up and planted it over near the house. Then before the frost
came it had forty blossoms and a lot of buds, so I potted it for the
house, where it bloomed until it froze down while I was away from home
but I had saved some of the seed, which I planted this spring and had
sixteen healthy plants. But it seems they are hard to raise for now I
have one left, which will soon bloom. The flowers are light pink when
they first come out, but the longer they are bloomed the brighter they
get. Does any one know what it is? The leaves are smooth and long in
shape, while the stock is a dull red and grows from two to three feet
high; the blooms are something like the Rambler Rose but not quite so
large. I have been a subscriber only a short time but could not be
without THE MAYFLOWER now; it has helped me in many ways, and the
cooking recipes are fine.--_Mrs. A. E. W._
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