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maggot. Nicotine vapour generated about the plants occasionally is also a preventive. 

 Spraying with tar- water — made by boiling \ lb. coal tar in a gallon of water for a 

 quarter of an hour, then diluting with fifty gallons of fresh water and stirring till well 

 mixed — drives away the fly that deposits the eggs from which the maggots emerge to 

 do their destructive work. 



MIGNONETTE. 



There is always a good sale for mignonette, both as pot plants and in a cut state, but 

 some cultivators are 

 much more successful 

 in growing it than 

 others. The demand is 



the greatest in the ( ■' §B ^^ ^ SSSS^^^M^^S^t >y '^li 



spring, and the prices, 

 6s. to 9s. per dozen 

 pots, obtained at that 

 period, pay the grower 

 well. In provincial 

 towns there is a good 



sale for mignonette in 'W^A^MpnH ■HK^IV f ^ 



mid- winter, the whole- 

 sale prices being much 

 the same as in the 

 spring, and the retail 

 price Is. per pot. In 



a cut state, twelve spikes to the bunch, the prices range from 4s. to 6s. per dozen 

 bunches, and the plants can be made to produce two crops of flowers. 



All things considered, a good stock of the variety known as Machet is the best 

 mignonette for pot culture ; Miles's Spiral also gives satisfaction. There are two methods 

 of culture — one by raising three strong plants in 3-inch pots in July, subsequently 

 shifting into the 6-inch size, and topping the growths. This results, under good 

 management, in floriferous bushes as represented in the illustration (Fig. 184) of 

 Veitch's Crimson King, a fine bold variety not yet generally known among growers for 

 market. The other and commoner plan is to sow in well-drained 5 or 6-inch pots, in 



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Fig. 184, Mignonette— Crimson King (Veitch). 



