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with spiraea, deutzias, and mauve cyclamen ; round the mouth of 

 each drooped some fine fronds of maidenhair. From the upper 

 tazza of the centre piece, into the trumpets of the four smaller 

 stands, was arched a fine wire, and round the wire was twined long 

 sprays of Lygodium scaudens, which had a most charming effect. 

 It was the first time I had tried the effect of this style of decoration, 

 and I was much pleased with the result. The button-hole bouquets, 

 like those on the long table, were made of various bright-coloured 

 flowers. I have no doubt many on reading this paper will exclaim at 

 my selecting purple as a gas-light colour. I myself was for a long 

 time under the impression that any shade of purple or mauve waa 

 not suited for artificial light ; but in many shades of cinerax'ia and 

 cyclamen I find I was mistaken. The best way to make sure of the 

 shades is before arranging them to subject them to gas or candle-light, 

 and those that look best can then be selected. Several of the cine- 

 rarias I find, when subjected to artificial light, appear of a much 

 richer shade than when seen by daylight. The fruit on the circular 

 table consisted of grapes, apples, pears, nuts, dates, prunes, raisins, 

 and figs, some of which were placed on rather high parian stands, and 

 the others in glass baskets, all being decorated v/ith ferns and a 

 little bright foliage. On the water in the finger-glasses floated three 

 leaves of Lady Plymouth, each leaf having resting on it a pip of a 

 double pink pelargonium or a double white primrose. The flowers 

 were kept in their places by the stems being pierced through the 

 leaf. Some of the glasses had two pink and one white, others two 

 white and one pink pip. 



DEATH TO GEEEXHOFSE EOES. 



BY GEOEGE SMITH. 



IN the Eloeal World for February last, I pointed out 

 the means by which severe attacks of the insects that 

 prey on the plants usually grown in the greenhouse 

 may be prevented ; and I will now proceed to describe 

 the best way of destroying those which have effected a 

 lodgment on the plants. This is very often no very easy task, for 

 when the plants have once become badly infested, a considerable 

 amount of perseverance is essential, and I need hardly say that 

 those who do not exercise a sufficient degree of watchfulness to 

 prevent the attacks of these pests, do not usually possess a very 

 large share of that desirable quality. 



During the last ten or fifteen years a number of nostrums for the 

 destruction of plant pests have been introduced ; and if only half of 

 what is said of them was true, there would be but little difficulty in 

 keeping all plants grown in the greenhouse perfectly free. But, unfor- 

 tunately, when used of sufficient strength to destroy anything more 

 tenacious of life than the greenfly, most of them will kill the plants 

 also. Some of them, however, may be used with advantage, and the 

 best of these are the Aphis Wash, manufactured by the City Soap 



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