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and then making it beautiful with a succession of flowering and 

 foliage plants. Near by, of course, they will have a large but neat 

 sign indicating whose' establishment it is. This form of advertising 

 seemed to be a special feature among English nurserymen, and a 

 very pleasant feature it is. There is a dignity and high standard and 

 truthfulness about such advertising which no printing will take the 



Curious forms of pruning apples, pears and peaches seen at the National School of 

 Horticulture, at Versailles, France. 



place of. When such places are by the side of some suburban line 

 that is patronized by hundreds of thousands of people daily, many of 

 whom come to note the frequent changes in landscape effects pro- 

 duced during the season, I am inclined to think it a very desirable 

 form of advertising. 



The melon caterpillar can usually be destroyed by spraying with Paris 

 green while the larvK are feeding upon the foliage or upon the outside of 

 the stems. 



