even,- yawning gap with its soft blue flowers of a shade that has been 
so aptly called the garden's solvent. Because it is the easiest of any 
annual to grow, and so far as I know, has no enemies except Jack 
Frost. It minds our dry. hot summers less than any other annual, and 
is truly charming to pick. It I could have two, the second would be 
Petunia — Royal Purple, Snowball, and Rosy Morn — and I would 
have a garden glo^^ing and beautiful with color, cool with soft green 
and so satisf}-ing with the exquisite form of the Petunia blossom 
that I wonder why I should yearn for a third, which would be Zinnia, 
of many shades of rosy salmon, best obtained by planting the medium 
sized Zinnia- Old Rose. Then, of course, you must leave out the 
Rosy ^lorn Petunia, and what a fine color scheme you have, and how 
it fairly pleads for now and then a clump of sulphur }-ellow Calendula ; 
— and there we have the fourth I I should like to go on planting this 
garden, but I am infringing on another department! Petunias I 
have found almost as easy to grow as Ageratum. I have no green- 
house, so sow the seed about ^March first, in shallow pans in a south 
window, one packet each of the best obtainable dark purple, that used 
to be called Karlsruhe Rathaus, and is now called by different dealers, 
Black Prince, Royal Purple, Purple King, or Dark Purple, but always 
recognizable because the seed is expensive — the pure white bedding 
Petunia usually called Snowball, and Rosy ^Morn. selected seed. 
From the three packets you will have, by the first of April, thousands 
of seedlings to be pricked off into flats, and set into the cold frames. 
Transplant again the first of 2^Iay, if possible into pots, and more 
than hah" of them will bloom by the first week in June. I have found 
the purple aU true to color, the Rosy Morn -^ith only an occasional 
one off color, but the white vnR often have an ugly bluish-purple 
stripe, and those I carefully reject. LonsE S. Huee-^sc. 
Spraying Fruit Trees 
Spray with lime-sulphur in February. Garden 
Later on, use a niodined lime-sulphur solution Vvitn the addition 
of arsenate of lead in the following proportions: 
214 gallons lime-sidphur loo gallons water. 
4 lbs. Arsenate of lead 
This should be appHed: 
1. When the buds show color 3. Two weeks later 
2. Just when the blossoms fall 4. Nine weeks after that. 
This should keep the trees in excellent condition, destroving 
insects and all fungus growths. 
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