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the carnation leaf and stem, and it is one that can be 

 quickly removed from the portion sent to market. A 

 weekly spraying of the plants with this Bordeaux mix- 

 ture should prove remunerative in houses troubled 

 with fungous enemies. The Bordeaux mixture is in- 

 expensive, the copper sulphate (blue vitriol or blue 

 stone) costing eight cents per pound. 



"(3.) The ammoniacal solution : A third compound 

 that does not have the lime and therefore gives the 

 sprayed plants no marked coating is the ammoniacal 

 solution of copper carbonate. Its formula is as follows : 

 Copper carbonate, five ounces; aqua ammonia (26), 

 five pints ; water, fifty gallons. The copper carbonate 

 is first mixed with water into a paste and the ammonia 

 slowly added until the solution becomes clear. This 

 can be kept in a bottle and the required amount diluted 

 as desired for spraying. The carbonate of copper costs 

 thirty-five cents a pound and ammonia sixteen cents a 

 quart, and therefore enough for spraying a large house- 

 weekly is a small bill of expense. 



" Taking all things into consideration it is probable 

 that the three preparations above described are arranged 

 in the order of excellence, the best being placed last." 



The disease called anthracnose, is better known by 

 florists as " the cutting bed fungus." This is the form 

 so destructive at times to cuttings when in the sand. 

 Hard wooded cuttings arr often blackened by it, but 

 its ravages are greatest among the more tender kinds 



