GARDENING FOR ALL. 147 
Apply food in sufficient quantity to maintain healthy 
vigour; a teaspoonful of Clay’s or Standen’s manure 
fortnightly during the growing season, or liquid manure 
‘* weak and often.” 
Keep the plants as clean as possible, both from insect 
pests and from accumulations of dust. Those with large 
leaves and palms may easily be sponged, using soapy water. 
Strong-growing ferns are benefited by an occasional syringing, 
also the flowering plants when not in flower. All—except 
the delicate maidenhair fern—may be exposed to gentle rain 
in warm weather with great advantage. 
Aphis, Red Spider and Thrips may easily be destroyed 
by placing the intested plants in a small room, shed, large 
box, or anything which will hold the plants and retain the 
smoke or vapour, and using carefully an XL All Vaporiser. 
Scale should be removed by means of a sponge and soapy 
water, the latter to be at the rate of about two ounces of sott 
soap, or washing soap, to one gallon of water. 
When re-potting a plant be sure that the fresh pot is 
perfectly clean inside as well as outside. Drain the pot well 
with potsherds, and cover the latter with long moss. Pot 
firmly, z.c., make the new soil around the plant as solid as the 
old ball of soil. Let the plant be thoroughly watered several 
hours before potting. 
SOILS FOR— 
Flowering *Loam 3 parts, Cactaceous Plants— 
Plants| Leaf-mould 
Foliage ,, I part, Loam 3 parts, 
Palms Sand 1 part. Old Mortar 1 part, 
Ferns— Sand 1 part, 
Loam 2 parts, F 
Leaf-mould r part, Dried Cow Manure 
‘Peat & Sand 1 part each. I part. 
LIQUID MANURE 
may be made from one pound of Guano to twenty gallons of 
water ; or one peck of soot and one peck of sheep or horse 
manure to thirty gallons of water; or one peck of fowl or 
pigeon manure to thirty gallons of water. 
