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cleaned of weeds, and any unpleasant excrescence re- 
moved. The pots should be brushed clean, and seared 
and decaying leaves also removed. Plants affected with 
mildew should be dusted with flowers of sulphur, and if 
this be applied when the fungoid disease is first seen, the 
trouble may be checked, if not entirely removed. Do not 
crowd the plants in any circumstances, as this is a sure 
cause of disaster. See that sufficient space is given to 
each one, that air may pass through with ease, and that 
the whole of its growth may reap the advantage of light 
and air while under glass. 
Fumigation. — As soon as the decorative plants are 
arranged in position under glass, they should be 
thoroughly fumigated, in order to destroy lurking insect 
pests which invariably are to be found somewhere or 
other on them. 
Any well-known fumigating material may be used for 
this purpose; the old method of fumigating with tobacco- 
paper will be found to answer the purpo.se as well as any 
other. The special compounds, each of which claims for 
itself some particular attribute, should in every case be 
u.sed in the manner prescribed in the directions issued with 
them. Tobacco-paper is recommended in this instance, 
as the plants may be fumigated with this simple material 
at all limes without injury to the plants or flowers. Ex- 
ception may be taken to recommending such an old 
remedy, but it is cheap and effectual, and for small glass 
structures more likely to meet the needs of those possess- 
ing them. The tobacco-paper should be torn up into 
shreds and placed in a five or six-inch pot, and this stood 
on other inverted pots, or bricks, etc., so that an under- 
current of air will assist the paper to burn. A hot cinder 
or two placed among the tobacco-paper will cause it to 
smoulder, and achieve the purpose desired, and if the 
house be left for, say, thirty minutes, the plants should 
be ridded of the insects with which they were infested. 
