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rated. My plants, after the first bath, showed its good 

 effects. It causes them to look so healthy, and gives 

 them such a lovely green, I would not do without it. 

 Then its good effects do not end here. You may talk 

 about water and cleanliness to keep off the green lice. 

 I have watered, and brushed, and sponged, but they 

 only seemed to come the more, until I commenced 

 showering them with carbonate of ammonia in the 

 water; then they disappeared, and their hateful 

 presence torments me no more." 



Epsom, Salts 



have been used by some amateurs with good success 

 iu ridding their plants of insects. Dissolve in water 

 and sprinkle both leaves and soil. 



flaster-of- Paris. 



The green slug, or rose-leaf-eater, has often been 

 conquered by dusting the bush freely with plaster-oj'- 

 paris early in the morning before sunrise, when the 

 insect is freely at work, and when the foliage is wet 

 with dew to mingle and hold the plaster. 



Water slightly sprinkled with coal-oil (to give it an 

 odor only) may be used directly on the leaves when 

 bugs or worms are found. 



