XXVI. PALM-CULTURE 



VERY woman who likes 

 plants thinks she must try 

 her skill at Palm-growing, 

 because every other woman 

 in the neighborhood is do- 

 ing so. Sometimes the re- 

 sult is very satisfactory. 

 Oftener, I am sorry to say, it is just the con- 

 trary. 



I know of nothing less attractive than one of 

 these plants when it becomes unhealthy. 

 When a woman tells me that her Palm is dis- 

 eased I generally advise her to throw it away 

 and get a new one, and begin all over again. 

 I do this because it is almost impossible to make 

 a presentable specimen of the old one. A 

 florist might be able to do, after a time, but 

 life is too short for her to undertake the work 

 of rejuvenation. The only way for the ama- 

 teur to have good Palms is to obtain healthy 

 plants and give them a treatment that will kee'p 

 them healthy. 



*'The tips of the leaves are turning brown 



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