THE CULTURE AND 



lent to shower your plants, dip them in tubs of 

 water. 



Sometimes scale, mealy-bug, and aphis 

 attack the Palm. Scale is a flat insect which 

 attaches itself to the leaf and sucks out the 

 juices of the plant. Mealy-bug is a white, cot- 

 tony looking creature which establishes itself in 

 the rough places of the stalk. Aphides every 

 plant-grower is so familiar with that no de- 

 scription will be needed. Either one of the 

 three will do great injury to a plant, and if 

 they all work together, they will soon kill it. 

 There are many insecticides on the market, but 

 none of them is as effective as a solution of the 

 ordinary ivory soap used in the household. 

 Shave up about two ounces of it, melt it, and 

 add it to a pailful of water, and wash your 

 plants with it. Such a remedy costs next to 

 nothing, is always at hand or easily obtainable, 

 is perfectly safe, and has the merit of being 

 pleasant to use, which is something that cannot 

 be said of the ordinary insecticide. 



SOME persons fail with Palms because they 

 selected varieties not adapted to house- 

 culture. I have found that the Kentias, Fos- 



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