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in a deep pail, and gave them a quick plunge, repeating it 

 two or tliree times in the day, and once every day until 

 cured for that time. 



Florists tell you spiders can't thrive only in the hot, dry 

 air of living rooms, but I don't believe it, though, for 

 there has been but very few of the plants that are liable to 

 be afflicted with them, that I have received from the con- 

 servatory, but what I could lind the traces, if not the 

 insects, already on them. I have kept my roses in the kitchen, 

 where there is an abundance of steam and fresh air con- 

 stantly, still I am obliged to watch and fight them yet, and 

 expect to until they are thoroughly acclimated to house 

 culture. 



Persons that have been accustomed to cultivate roses or 

 other plants that have been raised for generations back 

 (generations of plants, I mean,) in the house, till they have 

 become perfectly adapted to that kind of cultivation, know 

 but very little what it is to to take the tender varieties, 

 direct from the hands of a good florist and the even tem- 

 perature of a conservatory, and make them live, even, 

 through the process of acclimation, especially so if sent 

 you by mail ; and perhaps a word here in regard to the 

 treatment of such will be of service to some one. 



I have had the best success to remove the moss and 

 plunge them for an hour or two in warm water, foliage 

 and all, or longer if at all dry when received ; 

 after this take any light, sandy soil and the smallest clay 

 pot that will accommodate the roots, with a very little soil, 

 and charcoal for the drainage at the bottom ; say one 

 ^bout two inches across the top, inside, for a plant six 



