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is a coustitutioiial one nothing can be done to 

 effect a change. 



Eose T-rouhJe.— {^h's. J. F.) The specimen 

 sent shows milclew. Sometimes this results from 

 exposure to drafts, or a bleak exposure, some- 

 times from a lowered vitality of the plant. If 

 the place in -which the plant stands is a windy 

 one, remore it to a more sheltered location. 

 The principal remedy for mildew is tlour of 

 sulphur dusted over the plant when damp. 



Asparagus Flumosus and Sprengeri. — (Mrs. 

 C. L. C.) Give these plants a soil of sandy 

 loam, well fertilized. Keep out of sunshine. 

 AVater moderately. Shower frequently to pre- 

 vent the red spider from doing injury. The 

 new growth of A. Sprengeri can be made bushy 

 by pinching off the end after side branches get 

 a start. I keep A. plumosus bushy by pinching 

 off the tip of the vines when they have grown 

 to be about two feet long. Plants trained in 

 this way need no support, and are vastly more 

 satisfactory than those grown on trellises or 

 strings. 



Cut Worms on Boses.— (Mis. A. K.) You 

 injured your Eose bushes by the too liberal use 

 of Paris green. I would advise the use of bran, 

 soaked in arsenic water. Bank»this about the 

 base of the plant. Cut worms will eat the bran 

 on their way to the bush. Some persons slice 



potatoes thinly, and sprinkle the slices Avith 

 arsenic, and scatter them about the bushes. 

 Lime or ashes, dug into the soil about your 

 Eoses, will have a tendency to drive worms out 

 of the soil. 



Plants Wanted.— CMrs. S. C. T.) I can not 

 supply any one with plants. I simply edit 

 the magazine, and have no connection with 

 any firm or firms of plant growers, If plants 

 are wanted, write to the parties advertising in 

 this and other magazines as dealers in them. 

 All correspondence relative to premiums, etc., 

 should be sent to the publishers. I have nothing 

 to do with anything outside the magazine. 



Clematis Trouble. — {Mr^. L. L.) Many com- 

 plaints come to me from all over the country of 

 some disease which causes the Clematis to sud- 

 denly droop and soon die. I have lost two plants 

 in this way, and examination showed a diseased 

 condition of the root. This condition is evi- 

 dently of very rapid development, as the plants 

 appeared to be in perfect health up to within 

 a day or two of their death. 



Worms in Dahlias.— (Mrs. E. L.) I know 

 of no way of preventing the injury done to 

 Dahlias by worms working inside the stalks. 

 We are unable to tell that they are there until 

 the stalks wither, and then it is too late to 

 remedy matters. Frequent cultivation of the 



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