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Water Lilies on the Lawn. — 

 Orchard and Garden suggests a very 

 pretty plan for growing Nyiuphcea 

 odorata. Several tubs, coal oil barrels 

 cut in two will answer, ma}' be sunk 

 in the ground quite close to each 

 other in a group, the spaces between 

 them being filled with Calla lilies, 

 tuberous-rooted Begonias, Caladiums 

 Ferns, Grasses, etc. In planting, 

 fill the tubs about half full of a mix- 

 ture of good loam and thoroughly 

 rolled cow manure in equal parts, in 

 which imbed the roots, and cover 

 the soil with about half an inch of 

 clear sand. Fill the tubs slowly 

 with rain-water, and replace the loss 

 by evaporation. 



Nymphcca Dcvonicusis is commend- 

 ed as the queen of all water lilies, 

 surpassing in brilliancy of flower if 

 not in size of leaf, the famous Vic- 

 toria regia. It is a night bloomer, 

 each flower opening from 8 p.m. to 

 lo a.m. for three nights in succes- 

 sion. Under favorable circumstances 

 a single plant of this variety will, in 

 one season, cover a circle of twenty 

 feet across, with leaves twenty-five 

 inches in diameter, and flowers 

 twelve inches from tip to tip of 

 petals. The flowers are rosy red 

 with bright scarlet stamens. 



Carelessness in handling Paris 

 green and London purple is likely to 

 follow the wholesale use of them. 

 The dry powder rises almost imper- 

 ceptibly. Breathing this will intro- 

 duce arsenical poison into the system 

 through the lungs. In case of acci- 

 dental poisoning occurring, the best 

 antidote to administer is the h}- drated 

 sesqui-oxide of iron, which should be 

 taken at once. 



Benefits of Spraying, — Mr. A. 

 C. Hammond, Sec'y 111. Hort. Soc'y, 

 states that, as a result of spraying 

 one portion of his apple orchard in 

 1887, he gathered 500 bushels of 

 apples, of which seventy-five per 

 cent, were perfect, and eighty-five 

 per cent, marketable ; w^hile from the 

 same number of trees in the other 

 orchard he had not a peck of perfect 

 fruit. Let our readers give us facts 

 and figures, until the question is 

 settled to everyone's satisfaction. 

 The writer has used fifteen pounds 

 of Paris green this season on his 

 orchard, while some neighbors say 

 they have not confidence enough in 

 it to go to the expense and trouble of 

 applying it at all. 



RosEBUG. — The R.N.Y. recom- 

 mends spraying with pyrethrum 



