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that is, from the gardener's point of view 

 when he is not the owner of the house ! 

 The termites infest our well-drained beds 

 and destroy the plants above ground 

 by eating off the succulent bark, having 

 run up on its outer surface their usual 

 covered way galleries. Or they attack 

 our growing plants below ground. 



In the Dun White Ants have, for 

 some reason as yet not understood and 

 certainly not appreciated by our garden- 

 ers, a strong partiality for the 

 Annual Chrysanthemum, and 

 it is apparently a common 

 experience to find young plants 

 lying on the beds cut off in 

 the manner shown here. Our 

 mail's device, which is effec- 

 tual to a certain extent in the 

 case of some plants, is to 

 water the beds with a solution of copper 

 sulphate. 



Destruction of this nature is suffici- 

 ently annoying to the gardener, but our 

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