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chilly, and watering- them at night increases 

 the danger of chilling the plants. 



If you have any plants of the pretty sum- 

 mer and autumn flowering salpiglossis, keep 

 a close look out for attacks of the potato 

 bug. The Colorado beetle is just as partial 

 to these as it is to any of the numerous va- 

 rieties of solanum, to which order or class 

 of plants the salpiglossis as well as the po- 

 tato (Solanum tuberosum) belongs. It 

 takes but a few hours for these voracious 

 Colorado bugs to destroy a good sized 

 clump of salpiglossis plants. Some of the 

 new varieties of this pretty annual have very 

 beautifully marked flowers, and in shades of 

 color so seldom seen in annuals that make 

 them doubly attractive to flower-lovers, 

 in spite of their being such a favorite mark 

 for the potato bug to attack. 



Syringing the rose bushes with tobacco 

 water must be kept up if the rose-thrip is 

 very bad, or ample supplies of stems or to- 



bacco dust sprinkled about and around the 

 bushes. This pest has of recent years at- 

 tacked all varieties of the ampelopsis very 

 badly, as well as out-door grape vines. 

 Strong tobacco water, or a very weak solu- 

 tion of Paris green water, as recommended 

 in last month's journal, applied early in the 

 season and often, is the best remedy for 

 these white, lively pests. 



Vegetable and Fruit Garden. — There 

 will be little to do in the way of planting 

 and sowing, except perhaps to plant out 

 late cabbage and cauliflower toward the 

 end of June or early in July. Sweet corn 

 and the late varieties of beans can be planted 

 for use after the earlier sown crops are done. 

 One of the best beans for planting for a late 

 crop is the I.X. L. bean, it is the best variety 

 of the dwarf bean that I have found to pro- 

 duce a crop in hot weather. If you have a 

 rich piece of soil under the partial shade of 

 a fence or a low building, plant a row of the 

 asparagus pole bean early in June. This is 

 a delicious bean, and crops right along un- 

 til frost sets in. They will succeed in an 

 open rich piece of ground, if well watered 

 and the season is suitable for them. 



Weeding and hoeing must be attended to ; 

 stirring the soil often, increases the growth 

 of plants and helps to give good crop results. 



Currant and gooseberry bushes must still 

 be watched for caterpillars. Hellebore is 

 the only really safe remedy to use for them 

 now at this advanced stage of the fruit. 

 Spraying the plum and other fruit trees with 

 Bordeaux mixture must be attended to as 

 soon as the blossoms have dropped. The 

 crop of all small fruits in this section pro- 

 mises at this date (early May) to be very 

 good if the amount of blossom on the trees 

 is any criterion to ^o by. Apples do not 

 promise such a heavy show of blossoms as 

 last season. The steady and continuous cool 

 weather experienced during the end of April, 

 with north east winds, has helped to keep 

 back and harden fruit buds and early growth 



