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are tender and difficult to repot some- 

 times. Place an inch of broken pot at the 

 bottom of the pot for drainage. 



SEEDS FOR BORDERS. 



Border Flower Seeds. — Sweet Peas, 

 Zinnia, Mignonette, Antirrhinum, Sweet 

 William, Aquilegia, Dianthus, Marguerite 

 Carnation and Gaillardia, as well as the 

 annual Wallflowers, are amongst the varieties 

 of flower seeds that should be sown as early 

 as possible in the open ground. No flower 

 garden should be without the last named 

 variety of these sweet-scented English 

 flowers that are such favorites with every 

 one that loves a delicately perfumed and 

 easily grown flower. The annual type of 



these plants is very similar to the peren- 

 nial type, except that the plants are not as 

 strong growing and the flowers not quite as 

 large, but their long and continuous habit of 

 flowering and their delicious perfume make 

 them indispensable in a collection of garden 

 flowers. I picked large handtuls of these 

 as late as November loth, after most all of 

 the border flowers were spoiled by early 

 frosts, if sown early in April in a pot in 

 the window and transplanted in the border 

 early in May, they can be had in flower in 

 July. The other varieties mentioned (except 

 the Sweet Pea and possibly the Mignonette), 

 as well as other kinds of annuals and peren- 

 nials, can be sown indoors in pots or boxes 

 for transplanting outside, so as to secure 

 early flowering results. 



^ujestiotx gratuer 



SCAB IN POTATOES. 



Sir, — Will the mixture of lime, sulphur and salt 

 cure scao in potatoes. 



James Walker, Fairville, N.B. 



For scab in potatoes I have found copper 

 sulphate solution an excellent remedy. It is 

 useful both for treating the seed previous to 

 planting and for spraying the growing plants 

 to prevent rust, etc. Lime, sulphur and 

 salt, or lime and sulphur without salt, is not 

 suitable for foliage in any case. Used at one- 

 third of what we consider normal strength 

 it will defoliate peach trees very quickly. 

 Other truit trees are slightly more resistive. 

 G. E. Fisher, Burlington. 



WHALE OIL SOAP. 



Sir. — Where can Whale Oil Soap be purchased, 

 and what is tbe usual price for it in 2,000 lb. lots ? 

 Is there any simple way of testing quality ? 



Queenstown. Wm. Burgess. 



I know of no firm in Canada making 

 Whale Oil Soap. David Morton & Sons, of 

 Hamilton, made our last year's supply, and 

 delivered it at four cents per lb. 



They do not keep the necessary material 

 on hand, and do not make it except in large 

 lots. Morton's soap was the best we have 

 used. G. E. Fisher, Freeman. 



STICKY BANDAGE. 



Sir, — Is the mixture of resin and castor oil ap- 

 plied to the bark of the trunks of the trees ? 



Fairville, N. B. James Walker. 



In using the sticky bandage (castor oil 

 and resin) the trees should be very carefully 

 scraped at any convenient height — that is', 

 a strip six or eight inches wide around the 

 trunk — and the mixture applied with a 

 brush, making a sticky bandage about two 

 inches wide right on the bark. These two 

 inches will soon spread to four inches, and 

 if the weather warms up it will spread more 

 The first treatment will be absorbed by the 

 bark and must be repeated. The second . 

 application will remain sticky a long time. 

 G. E. Fisher, Burlington. 



