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garden try Paris green and shorts, one part to twenty— mixed. 

 Sprinkle about the plants you wish to protect. Air slaked lime is 

 said to be a reliable remedy for cabbage worms and perfectly harm- 

 less. Dust freely over the plants. Paris green with plaster, about 

 one part to fifty, will destroy squash bugs, and other insects— use 

 with powder gun. For all fungous trouble on plant or tree use the 

 Bordeaux mixture with spray pump; a little Paris green added will 

 destroy the potato bug and other insects. 



For further information I would refer all who seek the best 

 authority and guide to successful results to Prof. S. B. Green's 

 "Vegetable Gardening." This book gives practical instruction in 

 detail, is well illustrated, all methods are demonstrations as tested 

 and practiced at our Central Experiment Station, and by other suc- 

 cessful growers in the northwest. Also become a member of our State 

 Horticultural Society, the largest and best in the United States, 

 which is the most progressive country and people on earth. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Elliot : I am very much interested in that paper, but 

 there are one or two minor points which he did not cover. 

 One was in regard to the making of boxes as to their conven- 

 ience in storing. If those boxes are made square they will 

 take up a great deal of room, but if made with an angle so 

 that they will nest it will save in storage, and there will be no 

 waste of lumber. 



Another thing in regard to the asparagus bed. Asparagus • 

 should not be cut until the third year after transplanting in 

 order to give it time to throw out a good, strong root. If you 

 commence cutting it too early you will find it will not mature. 



Then there is the "Irishman's bouquet." I want to tell you 

 how that was grown. It fits right into this paper, and that is 

 the reason I w^ant to explain it. I received a package of seeds 

 from the Agricultural Department, and when I sowed my flower 

 seeds in the spring I dusted a few of those seeds in a six-inch 

 flower pot and set it in the hotbed and put over it two thick- 

 nesses of cloth. . I sprinkled it every day until I saw that the 

 seeds had germinated. When I saw that the seeds had 

 germinated I took off the cloth and sprinkled on a very light 

 amount of earth, not over a sixteenth of an inch, and then 

 when the plants had got their third leaves I pricked them out 

 into a shallow box, about three inches deep. I put it into one- 

 corner of the bed where I had taken out some tomato plants. 

 I sprinkled them and looked after them until they were about 

 three inches high, and on the 15th of July I transplanted them 

 into a hotbed where I had had cucumbers and the vines had 

 got done bearing. I transplanted this celery into that hotbed 



