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sulpho-tobacco soap. This is a cheap, effective, 
and harmless insecticide, and is as good on plants 
out of doors as indoors. It is a first-rate insect 
exterminator. . 
Before closing this chapter, I must not overlook 
a few suggestions and general hints. Arrange your 
annuals so as to keep up a continuance of bloom 
in all parts of your garden. Just at present one of 
my arrangements is to grow my sweet williams in 
rows, and far enough apart to allow rows of asters 
between. The asters will begin to blossom after 
the sweet williams are out of bloom. I assure you 
that we have few things finer than such a bed. 
Pansies will do a lot of nice work along the borders 
of beds, and that is the place also for mignonette 
and sweet alyssum. Nasturtiums I alternate with 
hollyhocks, besides thrusting the big seeds in al- 
most anywhere that there is likely to be a lack of 
blossoms. When the hollyhocks are through blos- 
soming, cut off the stalks, or the forming of seeds 
will use up vitality and kill the plants. Soon your 
nasturtiums will spread a carpet of glorious color 
and sweetness, and hide the stumps. My chief bed 
of nasturtiums is always on a spot that is least 
manured, and naturally barren. On poor soil 
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