applied and the foliage syringed each evening if the weather is warm 
with clear water. With close attention to these points there ought to 
be no trouble in producing some fine blooms. We hope in our Fall 
Catalogue to give full information about the cutting, preserving and 
shipping of blooms, which will be issued in axnple time for all the infor- 
mation on this point to be seasonable. 
INSECTS AND DISEASES. 
MILDEW. 
The Chrysanthemum being hardy and robust in constitution is singu- 
larly free from disease. When they are housed or sheltered in the Fall 
Mildew sometimes makes its appearance. This is caused by cold nights 
succeeding sunny days, or two great extremes of temperature. Over 
crowding the plants and insufficient ventilation is another fertile cause 
of Mildew. It must never be forgotten that it is shelter and not heat 
the Chrysanthemum wants, that is in sections whei’e it does not stay 
out the entire Winter. Should Mildew actually appear, dusting the 
affected plants with powdered or flowers of sulphur is the best antidote, 
together with the maintenance of a dry atmosphex - e. 
BLACK FLY. 
The Black Fly or Aphis is the worst enemy the Chrysanthemum has 
to contend with ; it infests the little plants in the early Spring, and will 
stick to them all the Summer long if not destroyed. This is closely 
allied to the Green Fly er Aphis that infests the Rose, and the same 
treatment will destroy it. A good decoction of tobacco water applied 
by means of a syringe or wisk bi’oom, will make the plant so distasteful 
to them that they will soon forsake it. Soap suds from the laundry 
applied in the same way as the tobacco water, will also help to drive 
them away. In sections where tobacco stems caix be procured cheaply, 
if they are kept sprinkled among the plants the insects will never molest 
them. If you have a water supply and a garden hose, and give your 
plants a good syi-inging each evening, it will also make it unpleasant 
for the bugs, and the chances are they will not want to stay on your 
plants any great length of time. If grown indoors, a smoking as recom- 
mended for Roses will kill them. 
CATTERPILLAR. 
In the Fall a sort of a brown Catterpillar preys upon them ; there is 
no antidote for this better than the finger and thumb system of picking 
them off and destroying them. 
Our Piedmont Prize Collection. 
The collection of twenty-live plants grown from a single stem, 
and the one hundred cut blooms exhibited by us at the Piedmont 
Exposition in Atlanta, Ga., last Fall, was a revelation in Chrysan- 
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