JANUARY.] HOT-HOUSE CLEANSING PLANTS, HOUSE, &c. ]9 



OF CLEANSING PLANTS, HOUSE, &c. 



This subject ought to be kept constantly in view. 

 However correct every thing may be executed, with- 

 out that adorning beauty, cleanliness, all will appear 

 only half done. Therefore let all the dead leaves be 

 picked off every day, and with dust and other litter 

 swept out of the house, and when necessary, the 

 house washed, which will be at least once a week. 

 That the foliage of the plants may always appear fresh, 

 syringe them in the evening, twice or three times per 

 week ; (when the weather is very cold, do it in the 

 morning.) At present this will in a great measure keep 

 down the insects, and will prove a bane to the red 

 spider. 



A hand engine is certainly the best. Milne's pa- 

 tent hand engine surpasses any that we have used. 

 Nevertheless a hand syringe is very effectual. Some 

 of these engines are powerful, throwing the water 

 above forty feet. Read's patent of London is excellent. 

 At the store of D. & C.Landreth, Phila., there is a very 

 good kind, which answers admirably in small houses. 

 Tie up neatly with stakes, and threads of Russia mat, 

 all the straggling growing plants; let the stakes be pro- 

 portionate to the plants, and never longer, except they 

 are climbing sorts. Do not tie the branches in bun- 

 dles, but singly and neatly, imitating nature as much as 

 possible. If any of the plants are affected with the 

 Cocus insect, let them be cleaned according to the plan 

 already mentioned, taking particular care also in wash- 

 ing the stakes to which they had been previously tied, 



