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an open, airy situation, where the wind can have full 

 sweep over them. There is no more mistaken idea 

 than that Pansies should be grown in the shade. The 

 aim should be to get stocky, upright plants with the 

 flowers borne well above the foliage on stiff stems. 

 This is impossible when plants are grown in the shade, 

 where long, straggly branches will invariably be pro- 

 duced, with flowers at the extreme end. Then, too, 

 plants grown by the side of the house, or in protected 

 positions, where the wind cannot sweep over them, 

 are much more liable to disease than plants grown in 

 the open. 



Fungoid disease and mildew often attack the Pansy 

 in hot, muggy weather. The remedy for the former 

 is to spray with the Bordeaux mixture, and for the lat- 

 ter to dust with sulphur. It will be better still if the 

 disease appear in August, as is usual to remove all 

 the old growth, cutting or breaking it off close to the 

 crown, care being taken not to injure the tender new 

 shoots, which will have started by this time. Burn 

 the old tops. The new growth, being open to the air, 

 will probably be free from disease, and will quickly 

 fill the bed, giving an abundance of fine flowers 

 throughout the cool days of fall. From a bed so 

 treated I gathered five hundred blossoms the day 

 before Thanksgiving with no apparent diminution of 

 bloom. After removing the old growth the earth 

 between the plants should be thoroughly cleaned and 

 workecl over with the trowel 



