GARDENING. 



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reaches. This may have to be done sev- 

 eral times a year. But too much lime is 

 injurious to grass and earth. Instead of 

 liming the lawn at night and in wet 

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 the aid of hose or watering pot wash the 

 lime into the ground; or by doing it im- 

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 the work and not the hose. 



TflRIPS IN n VINERY. 



E. G., Hastings, Mich., writes: 



have 

 a grapery under glass for the last six 

 years. 



This summer I am troubled with 

 little brown insect some call thrips. It 

 appeared in June and July, attacking the 

 leaves and destroj-ing them almost 

 entirely, so that new shoots have begun 

 to lorm. What remedy is for this insect?" 

 Tobacco kills it. Shut up your vinery 

 tight, then in the afternoon fumigate with 

 some very strong, pimgent tobacco stems. 

 Rt member that overheated tobacco, as 

 when the stems get aflame, will destroy 

 the leaves as well as the thrips. If you 

 know nothing about fumigating make a 

 few heaps of slightly damp tobacco stems 

 on the floor, say half a peck in each, and 

 set them a fire, keeping them smouldering 

 but never let them flame up. The house 

 should be filled full of smoke in this way. 

 Next mominggive the vinesa good hosing 

 or syringing. Youhavegotto repeat this 

 'umrgating say two to three times a week 

 for two weeks or more to destroy them in 

 your vinery now that you have let them 

 get such headway. Dr\', fresh tobacco 

 powder or Scotch snuff dusted all over 

 the vine leaves with a powder bellows, 

 when the plants are wet, will also aid 

 you in combating the thrips, but you 

 have got to keep it up. To clear a badly 

 infested house of thrips is a hard matter. 

 .\lthough the evil is nearly over so far as 

 the grape vines are concerned this fall, if 

 you are going to winter other plants in 

 the house, better get rid of the thrips 

 before you take in the plants. Next 

 spring begin in time. Befor*your vines 

 break into bud strew a lot of fresh 

 tobacco stems in your vinery, and remove 

 these and introduce a fresh lot every fort- 

 night, no matter whether you see a thrips 

 or not, for prevention is better than cure. 

 Sprinkle the tobacco in the morning so 

 that the warm sunheat will cause an 

 evaporation from it whose pungency will 

 make you sneeze. Thrips or greenfly can 

 not live in such an atmosphere as that, 

 but it hasn't the least injurious effect 

 upon mealy bugs, red spider, or scale, 

 they are invulnerable so far as tobacco in 

 any form is concerned. Thrips in vine- 

 ries are usually introduced from other 

 plants, as azaleas, pelljea ferns, etc. 



Miscellaneous. 



TUB JAPANESE MORNING GLORIES. 



As we promised, page 371, we sent our 

 correspondent some of the leaves. He 

 writes; 



"The box of Japanese morning glory 

 leaves reached me this morning. I have 

 them now spread out before me on mj' 

 desk, and I can assure j'ou my astonish- 

 ment and admiration are great. I have 

 just such an exposure on my front piazza 

 as you suggest for growing them, and I 

 hope to have there a display next year 

 which will be the envy of all mj' neigh- 

 bors. I also bought some Ipowoca rnar- 

 tnorata, and while the flowers of the 

 latter are very large and beautiful, far 

 superior to the ordinary morning glory, 

 the Iciivcs arc nolniarblcd at all." 



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