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frame covered with glazed cloth or other reasonable 

 smoke-proof material. This is made large enough to 

 put bodily over the bush. The nozzle of the smoke- 

 bellows may then be introduced through a suitable 

 aperture, and in a few minutes, or seconds, the smoke 

 inside will be almost thick enough to cut with a knife. 



Cloth Eoll. " My way of fumigating plants with 

 tobacco is to take a long, narrow strip of cloth and 

 spread it out ; sprinkle tobacco the whole length, then 

 roll tightly, place on a stove-cover or an old plate under 

 the flower-stand, light the roll, and close all doors. It 

 generally proves effectual. M. C. A." 



Tobacco in Small Dish. " Put coarse stems, smok- 

 mg-tobacoo, or cigar-ends on coals in a small dish, and 

 hold it under the plants, over which a. newspaper should 

 be thrown tc confine the smoke among them until the 

 lice are stupefied ; then shake the plants thoroughly, 

 and sweep away all the insects which fall from them. 

 After that sprinkle them thoroughly, taking care to 

 wet the leaves below as well as above." 



Another Wait of Fumigating. A gardener in the 

 Hull Botanical Garden of London adopts this method 

 to clean green flies that infest his house-plants : 



" Lay the plant on its side in a wash-tub, throw over 

 it a damp towel, or, better, a bit of glazed calico lining* 

 and then, through an opening at the bottom, have your 

 husband insert the end of a pipe, and through it IML 

 him blow tobacco-smoke until the plant gets a goof 



