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HOW TO DESTROY IX SECTS. 



rated. My plants, after the first batli, showed its good 

 effects. It causes them to look so healthy^ and gives 

 them such a lovely green, I vroukl not do without it. 

 Then its good effects do not end here. You may talk 

 about water and cleanliness to keep off' the green lice. 

 I have watered, and brushed, and sponged, but they 

 only seemed to couie the more, until I commenced 

 showering them Avith carbonate of ammonia in the 

 water: tlien they disappeared, and their hateful 

 presence torments me no more.*' 



Ejtsoni Salts 



have been used by some amateurs with good success 

 in ridding their plants of insects. Dissolve in water 

 and sprinkle both leaves and soil. 



TIaster-of-I*aris. 



The grecii slug^ or rose-leaf-eater, has often l)een 

 conquered by dusting the ])ush freely with jylaster-oj- 

 paris early in the morning before sunrise^ wlien tlie 

 insect is freely at work, and when the foliage is wet 

 with dew to mingle and hold the plaster. 



Coal-oil. 



Water slightly sprinkled vrith coal-oil (to give it an 

 odor only) may be used directly on the leaves when 

 bugs or worms are found. 



