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will see that his plants are not largely injured by this pest; it invariably 
happens that the first attack is only slight. By eradicating those that 
commence the attack and syringing occasionally with some nauseous 
emulsion or soot water, further egg-lajdng on the part of the females 
is checked, 
DELPHiNroM Readers who may be troubled with the above disease are requested 
Black Spot to send specimens to Erwin F. Smith. Pathologist in charge, U. S. De- 
DiSEASE partment of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 
The bureau is desirous of investigating the disease, with a view to 
combating it. Specimens should be packed in a stoutly made package 
and with sufficient damp moss to insure their arrival in a fresh con- 
dition. RoMAYNE L. Warren. 
News and Views 
VrvE LE A member of a flourishing Garden Club asks News and Views 
Vegetal to make in this Fall Planting number of the Bulletin a plea for 
careful planning of well considered vegetable gardens in combination 
with flower gardens where space is restricted, and thinks a whole 
winter none too long to evolve a successful plan whereby a lovely color 
scheme can be introduced into the ordinary kitchen garden. There 
must be something fundamentally wrong with the man or woman who 
does not love a vegetable in its natural as well as in its culinary state; 
the dilettante to whom a bed of green mint means nothing more than 
a fitting complement to a lamb whose frisking has been curtailed by 
force, or who feels that a carrot is entirely beyond the pale, clearly 
has no soul, and therefore no niche in the garden universe. 
A vegetable garden unadorned is a joy, but combined with flowers 
such as our correspondent suggests, it would indeed be a thing of real 
beauty. Perhaps with help from those fortunate people who rejoice in 
a sense of color, the indiscriminate ''picking bed" so often combined 
with a vegetable garden could be improved upon. One combination 
tried with success and sug'gested by its creator is very lovely. She has 
a small and rather narrow garden planted with alternate rows of cool 
green cabbage, variegated beets, and rose pink zinnias, the whole 
edged with blue ageratum. If each necessary vegetable could find its 
flower affinity as has been done for the cabbage and the beet, think of 
the result. Our friend who makes the request has given us added in- 
terest in the coming "spring catalogue." 
The Bean as In the morning paper is an item on the page that is devoted to 
Literary business. It says that beans are dull but firmly held, and a little 
Food further down I see that hay is quiet. I suppose the hot summer was 
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