FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



I took the drastic method of digging up all 

 the plants attacked between forty and fifty, 

 which was a large proportion of the nearly 

 six hundred growing in the garden and 

 burned them. Alas! a number of these were 

 from eight to ten years old, and the largest, 

 oldest and most vigorous plants in the garden, 

 so that it was a heart-rending operation 

 both to me and to the men. All the remain- 

 ing plants were immediately sprayed with 

 Bordeaux mixture, which spraying was 

 repeated every month. This coming spring, 

 when the plants first start, they will again be 

 well sprayed and the ground over the roots 

 also thoroughly wet with the Bordeaux, and 

 this treatment will be given them twice after- 

 ward at intervals of three weeks, in the hope 

 that the devastating trouble will thus be con- 

 quered. Several of the veronicas were afflicted 

 in the same way, and were given the same 

 prescription. 



From many gardens comes a complaint of 

 mildew affecting the climbing roses, some of 



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