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Besides these tools, the tool-house should be stocked 

 with a few insecticides and commercial fertilizers, so that 

 when the occasion arises the proper remedy or tonic will 

 be at hand and time will not be lost in procuring it. 

 Directions for use come with the packages. The ma- 

 terial and its application is shown here: 



Bordeaux Mixture (liquid) for fungous diseases. (One gallon 



makes a barrel of liquid.) 



Bordeaux Mixture (dry) for mildew and fungous diseases. 

 Hellebore all sucking insects. 

 Kerosene emulsion plant lice and aphis, scale. 

 Slug-shot good general insecticide. 

 Paris green for "eating" insects. 

 Sulphur (powdered) for mildew. 

 Tobacco Dust for aphis. 

 Whale-oil soap good wash for Roses. 

 Lime-sulphur solution spray for flowering fruit trees. 

 Bone meal splendid food for Roses and other plants. 

 Wood ashes. 



Nitrate of soda good tonic, but must be carefully used. 

 Sheep manure an effective and easily applied dry manure. 

 Lime (slaked) for sweetening the soil. 



A "Day Book," kept in connection with the garden 

 and nursery, will be found an invaluable aid to memory. 

 Mine is rather a stout ledger, in which is kept a record of 

 all plants and seeds purchased and from whom, and all 

 expenses connected with the garden. Note is made of all 

 experiments under way, of all new flowers under obser- 

 vation. Careful note is made of changes to be made at a 

 convenient season. Memory is short in the garden, the 

 beauty of one season blots out the mistakes of the last, 



