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PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



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Most Indispensable. 

 Here we are showing' an azelia in 

 a Jardinier being- sprayed underneath 

 the leaves with the Lenox Plant 

 Sprayer, manufactured by the G. N. 

 Leno'x Sprayer Company of New 

 York, 165 West 23d Street. It shows 

 how thoroughly the underside of a 

 plant can be covered with tobacco 



Spraying Under the Leaves. 



water or any other liquid insecticide 

 or clear water by the misty spray 

 ejected from the sprayer, it is unlike 

 the old fashioned rubber bottle, which 

 is clumsy and unhandy for amatuer 

 flowering, or the common sprinkling 

 pot from which water can only be 

 poured out but one way, over the 

 leaves. The Lenox is certainly better 

 than any that we know of on the mar- 

 ket. Most plants to be healthful and 

 thrifty should be sprayed underneath 

 the foliage, thereby removing all ac- 

 cumulations of dust and all breeding 

 insects, and refreshing the plants as 

 nature intended for them. The spray 

 reaches every part of the plant and 

 directly into "the flowers as is seen in 

 the above cut. For our part we do 

 not see how it is possible to keep 

 plants successfully without having one 

 of the Lenox Sprayers handy, and 

 since the price is rather low for a 

 thing as good as that, we should think 

 every lover of plants should have one. 

 It will come handy to keep the rose 

 hugs off from the rose bushes too, and 

 that is not so far away. — Reader, 

 vou need one of these sprayers if you 

 have any plants. 



Nature and Science 

 FOR YOUNG FOLKS 



(A Department of 

 The St. Nicholas Magazine 



PUBLISHED BY 



THE CENTURY COMPANY 



New York City) 



Edited by 



EDWARD F. BIGELOW 



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 and criticized, that every parent, every 

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