3 i8 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



three having given me some trouble, the most fatal 

 being of a fungoid order, due usually to unhealthy 

 root conditions or an excess of moisture. 



Rust is one of these, its Latin name being too long 

 for the simple vocabulary of The Garden, You, and I. 

 It first shows itself in a brown spot that seems to have 

 worked out from the inner part of the leaf. Some- 

 times it can be conquered by snipping the infected 

 leaves, but if it seizes an entire bed, the necessary 

 evil of spraying with Bordeaux mixture must be resorted 

 to, as in the case of fungus -spotted hollyhocks. 



Thrip, the little transparent, whitish fly, will some- 

 times bother border carnations in the same way as it 

 does roses. If the flowers are only in bud, I sprinkle 

 them with my brass rose- atomizer and powder slightly 

 with helebore. But if the flowers are open, sprinkling 

 and shaking alone may be resorted to. For the sev- 

 eral kinds of underground worms that trouble pinks, 

 of which the wireworm is the chief, I have found a lib- 

 eral use of unslaked lime and bone-dust in the prepa- 

 ration of the soil before planting the best preventive. 



Other ailments have appeared only occasionally. 

 Sometimes an apparently healthy, full-grown plant 

 will suddenly wither away, or else swell up close to 

 the ground and finally burst so that the sap leaks 



