GARDENING B Y MYSELF. ^g 



itself in the very substance of the leaf. The 

 best preventive is to keep your plants in 

 vigorous growth. 



'' I had a lot of about 500 heliotropes," 

 says Mr. Henderson, " growing in two-inch 

 pots ; one half of which were, in September, 

 shifted into three-inch pots. They were 

 kept side by side, and treated in all respects 

 the same. Those shifted, of course, w^ith 

 increased food, grew vigorously and strong, 

 while the unshifted remained comparatively 

 stunted ; and to-day, Dec. ist, the * black 

 rust ' shows itself on nearly every plant, and 

 the microscope shows on every affected 

 leaf hundreds of these insects, feeding 

 like sheep on a pasture field, while on 

 the shifted plants none whatever can be 

 found. ""^ 



Keep growing, — is safe counsel for your 

 plants as well as yourself. 



Mealy bug needs no description. You 

 may never see him, — if you do, pick him off. 

 If he wi7/ stay, give him a dose of whale-oil 



* Practical Floriculture. 



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