Garden For forcing Calceolarias and Cinerarias the best artificial manure 
Pests and ^^^ been found to be >^ oz. superphosphate and 14. oz. sulphate of 
Remedies Potash, dissolved in i>^ gallons of water, and watered in as needed. 
Mildew During a damp Autumn when temperature is fairly high, mildew 
is commonly a great pest in the garden. There seems to be an idea 
that the mould is chiefly confined to Roses and Vines, but, in some 
form or another, it will appear on a great many plants. Mildew is, of 
course, the growth of a parasitic fungus, and it may spread alarmingly 
in twenty-four hours. Foliage and fruit may be so badly affected that 
the grower is filled with dismay. With mildew there is nothing that 
matters so much as prompt treatment. Even the smallest patch of 
mildew should not be tolerated, and when the little white specks begin 
to appear, take drastic action at once. For mildew there is nothing so 
good as flowers of sulphur. If the foliage is dry, syringe well in the 
evening, and then dust well with the dry sulphur. 
— Gardening Illustrated,. 
Recipe for Sulphuride thickened with enough Bordeaux powder to make it 
Rabbit Ex- thick enough to use as a paint, and with a brush in the Fall paint all the 
TERMINATOR lower limbs of young fruit trees, roses, grapes, etc., which rabbits 
attack. Paint high enough from the ground in case of deep snow. 
Martha B. Hutcheson. 
Field Mice Mrs. Crowninshield tells us of a positive preventive for the in- 
roads of field mice on our roses and fruit trees: 
Before covering for the winter, paint the stems with a strong solu- 
tion of arsenate of lead. . 
Romayne Latta Warren. 
News and Massachusetts has been sorely tried by the grievous scourge of 
Views sign-boards which cover her fair fields. Like Job, she has groaned 
beneath the plague, and although her courts have judged it uncon- 
stitutional to abolish the bill-boards, an amendment to the Constitution 
has been enacted authorizing the appointment of a commission to con- 
trol and regulate these offensive advertisements. 
The North Shore Garden Club has entered into the fray with much 
warmth. Members have attended all the hearings undaunted by the 
emphatic disapproval of the bill-board manufacturers and their 
attorney, Mr. Tuttle, who is far from being a sucking-dove. The 
climax of his indignation at such an attempted interference with the 
rights of property came when, with a gesture of "f rightfulness," he 
shook his fist in the face of our delegate and cried out a warning 
against " t^ese Bolshevists from above." The Club has engaged a very 
able lawyer, who, mth the help of representatives of other groups of 
people interested in the matter, has drawn up and presented for 
adoption resolutions looking toward the abatement of the nuisance. 
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