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the potash they contained, and were stimulated into 

 fresh growth by it." 



Tobacco for Green Bugs. 



li After two years' experience in trying to rid my 

 houee-plante of the green insect, I have found that 

 a good method is to get a paper of cut and dry 

 tobacco 'such as smokers use for the pipe) ; spread 

 it about one fourth of an inch deep over the soil in the 

 pot j when this disappears add more. I have succeeded 

 in keeping my plants free altogether by this remedy. 



" MRS. M. M. S. 

 Green Rugs. 



" The little green bugs I have had by the millions, 

 yes, by the trillions, especially on my rose-bushes. I 

 tried everything any one told me of to get rid of them, 

 but nothing had any effect. I sprinkled and dusted 

 and powdered, and powdered and dusted and sprinkled, 

 but the little pests were as 'cute as I, arid crawled on 

 the under side of the leaves, where they kept just as 

 dry as the Israelites when they passed through the Red 

 Sea. A florist told me to sprinkle them with tobacco- 

 water, but finding sprinkling did no good, I made Bap- 

 tists of them and gave them a 'dip ; ' and not only a 

 dip, but I took a sponge and washed both sides of every 

 leaf on every plant that had a bug on it with strong to- 

 bacco-water, and, hurrah ! Hail Columbia ! that did the 

 business, for I have not seen four bugs in the whole 



