"The Violet," says a correspondent of the Gardener's Monthly, "has ever been one of my favorite window flowers. In former years, when brought into the house from the cold pits to flower, they were placed at once in the sitting-room window, where we had a regular temperature of about sixty degrees; but the stalks were always slender, and the flowers rather small. Thinking it was too hot, I kept them other years in a cooler room, where the heat might perhaps not range over between 45 and 55, and the result has been much healthier looking plants and finer foliage. Besides this, they were not much behind what I have had in warmer places in other years. I am sure they want very little heat to do well. Another fact: I have learned that a manure water made of rotten wood is a capital fertilizer for them. Once I thought, as shady places were the natural places where violets grow, rotten wood would be a good thing in the soil, but they sometimes get sick in it; but the liquid of steeped wood does not seem to have this effect; on the other hand, a lively green is the result. We never water them except when they show signs of drying ; in our room this is about twice a week.

This may not be new, but it is true".