OF PLANTS 



The only remedy I have ever found for it 

 is Bordeaux mixture — a preparation of cop- 

 per sulphate and fresh lime. This is what 

 small-fruit growers and nurserymen depend 

 on to protect their orchard products from the 

 ravages of the various fungoid diseases now 

 so prevalent in all parts of the country. The 

 mixture can now be obtained of florists and 

 plant-dealers in paste form, soluble in water. 

 This is what every amateur gardener should 

 procure instead of attempting to prepare the 

 mixture for himself, as the process is a some- 

 what elaborate one. Instructions for using it 

 will be found on the cans in which it is sold. 

 Regidar and persistent use of it will keep the 

 disease in check, if it does not wholly rid your 

 plants of it. 



Roses and a few other plants are sometimes 

 attacked by mildew. You may know of this 

 by a curling of the young leaves, and a white 

 substance, like dust, that will be found on 

 many of them. This disease is generally the 

 result of cold drafts, exposure to a low tem- 

 perature alternating with a higher one, and a 

 lowering of the vitality of the plant from 

 various causes. It seems to have something 

 of a fungoid character, which makes it pos- 



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