24 ORNAMENTAL FOLUGE PLANTS. 



This is a marked difference in the treatment necessary for 

 flowering stove plants, and those grown for the beauty of 

 their leaves only. 



The best time of the day for watering plants during the 

 summer season is towards evening, after the houses are 

 closed, but in autumn and winter this operation should 

 always be performed in the morning, so that all super- 

 abundant moisture becomes dried up as rapidly as possible. 



INSECTS. 



IROPICAL plants are all more or less liable to the 

 attacks of several kinds of insects, which is, how- 

 ever, only in accordance with natural laws ; but 

 as these are injurious to the plants, rendering them un- 

 sightly, crippling their leaves, and ultimately depriving 

 them of life, it behoves the cultivator to use any and every 

 means in his power to prevent their attacks, for if they 

 succeed in gaining a footing upon the objects of his care, 

 he must wage a war of extermination with them, and never 

 cease until the last of the enemy or enemies is destroyed. 

 Stove plants suffer priacipally from the attacks of Green 

 My, Mealy Bug, Turtle Scale, Black Thrips, and Bed 

 Spider. 



The Green Fly may be destroyed by fumigation with 

 tobacco paper, by syringing with tobacco water, or dusting 

 with tobacco powder or snuff. In the latter case, the snuff 

 must, after a day or two, be well washed off with the 

 syringe. 



The Mealy Bv^ is a small white powdery insect, of which 

 the female is wingless, and too frequently found upon the 



