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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



injurious to corn. It is a fungous disease that works in almost 



loss from this cause. It is, however, such an expensive remedy 

 as to seem almost impracticable. Some experiments seem tc 

 show that soaking the seed in a solution of sulphate of copper 

 may assist in preventing this trouble in corn as well as smut ir 

 wheat, but other experiments apparently prove the contrary, 

 and it may be taken as a dotibtful matter at the best. Prac 

 tically, then, we know of no sure remedy for smut in corn. 



The Lily Family is made up of plants that with few excep- 

 tions have parallel veined leaves. The flowers are regulai 

 and symmetrical with perianth of six parts, six stamens and a 

 superior three-celled ovary. Fruit a many-seeded dry pc-d or 

 soft berry. Besides the asparagus, onion, garlic and leek, whose 

 cultural directions are here given, there occurs in this family the 

 tiger and other lilies, the hyacinth, tulip. Spanish bayonet, cen- 

 tury plant, smilax, lily of the valley and many other familia: 

 flowering plants. 



Fig-ure 4S.— Com Stiut, (UstLlago Mavdis.) 



any part of the plant, 

 causing swellings which 

 contain black spores. 

 When ripe, the swellings 

 burst and the spores are 

 scattered to continue the 

 disease another year. 

 There can be no qtiestion 

 btit that gathering and 

 destroying the bunches 

 of f>pores by burning or 

 btirying them deeply in 

 the ground would result 

 in greatly lessening the 



THE LILY -FAMILY. (Order Liliaceae.) 



ASPARAGUS. (Asparagus officinalis.) 



Native of Europe. — Perennial. — The asparagus is an her- 

 baceous plant, growing to the height of about four feet. The 



