German Iris clumps may be divided and 

 replanted immediately after flowering. 



Please use Phosphate of Iron once a 

 month, an ounce to the square yard, it should 

 be well raked into the soil about the rose 

 bushes. 



Tests made in Europe have led experts 

 to decide that ivy benefits rather than injures 

 stone walls, on which it grows by drawing 

 excess moisture from them. 



Do not cut off all the foliage when prun- 

 ing a perennial. Enough leaves should remain 

 to furnish sufficient air cells for the rest of the 

 plant, otherwise it will not flourish. 



WATCH FOR THESE TWO PLANT 

 ENEMIES 

 Two plant enemies of a very serious 

 nature have gotten into this country from 

 Europe. They are the European corn borer 

 and the European potato wart disease. At 

 present both apparently are confined to a 

 comparatively limited territory, but every 

 precaution and the utmost care will be neces- 

 sary to prevent their spread. Unless con- 

 trolled they may become the most destructive 

 enemies of two of America's greatest food 

 crops. The corn borer now is known to exist 

 only in Massachusetts and New York. It 



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