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Bordeaux Mixture, which can now be obtained in 

 paste form from most florists. This is the only 

 dependable remedy I know of for the fungus ills 

 that plants are heir to. Asparagus is often so 

 badly aifected with it, of late years, that many 

 growers have been obliged to mow down their 

 plants and burn their tops in midsummer, in their 

 efforts to save their stock. Never leave any of 

 the cut-off portions of a plant on the ground, 

 thinking that cutting down is ajl that is neces- 

 sary. The fungus spores will survive the winter, 

 and be ready for work in spring. Burn every- 

 thing. 



A house whose foundation walls are left fully 

 exposed always has an unfinished look. But if 

 we hide them by shrubs and flowering plants the 

 place takes on a look of completion, and the 

 effect is so pleasing that we wonder why any 

 house should be left with bare walls. The plants 

 about it seem to unite it with the grounds in such 

 a manner that it becomes a part of them. But 

 the house whose walls are without the grace of 

 "green things growing," always suggest that 

 verse in the Good Book which tells of " being in 

 the world, but not of it." 



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