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Bordeaux mixture is easily made as 
follows: 
A. Make one pound lump lime, or 
quick lime, into five gallons of thin white¬ 
wash. 
B. Dissolve one pound blue-stone 
(copper sulphate) in five gallons of water 
by suspending same in a cloth sack in top 
of water. 
C. Slowly pour A. and B. together, 
simultaneously into a larger vessel, stir, 
and spray onto the bushes. This strength 
of bordeaux is the same as that spoken of 
as 5-5-5°. Bordeaux mixture should not 
be mixed or kept in metal vessels. 
Ammonia-copper-carbonate solution is 
made by dissolving five ounces copper 
carbonate in three pints of ammonia, 26 
degrees test, and diluting the same with 
water to make fifty gallons. 
BOOKS ON ROSES. 
1. Roses , their History, Development, 
and Cultivation, by Rev. Joseph H. Pem¬ 
berton, President of the National Rose 
Society of England. 336 pages. Illus¬ 
trated. Longmans, Green ’& Co. 1908. 
$3-50. 
2. Roses and Hozv to Grow Them. 
By a group of experts. 189 pages. $1.10. 
3. Book about Roses. Dean Hole. 
300 pages. 24th edition. $1.50. 
4. The Rose. H. B. Ellwanger. 310 
pages. $1.25. 
5. The Rose Book. By H. H. Thomas, 
etc. Funk and Wagnalls Co., N. Y. $2. 
6 . Making a Rose Garden. By Henry 
H. Saylor. McBride, Nast & Co., N. Y. 
1912. 50 cents. 
7. How to Groza Roses. The Con- 
ard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 10 
cents. 
RARE AND BEAUTIFUL TREES FOR SOUTH FLORIDA 
James L. Rodger 
In these few brief remarks we shall 
practically say nothing on “palms.” 
Th is is, perhaps, in a measure, disap¬ 
pointing and unfortunate, since the 
great majority of strangers who come 
tor visit our state are especially on the 
lookout for palms, completely absorbed, 
and rightly so, when they see them, and 
therefore less disposed, unless they be 
particularly observant, and tree enthusi¬ 
asts, to see the beauty of anything not a 
palm. Nevertheless we have success¬ 
fully brought to our shores, trees of 
great interest and beauty, which are not 
only valuable additions, but which in 
the experience of the writer, are very 
easily grown, the latter item being quite 
a consideration, since there are many 
genuinely enthusiastic lovers of trees, 
attested by the prices they pay for 
them, who, because of inexperience, or 
some other inexplicable reason do not 
always have the success they them¬ 
selves desire, and which public-spirited 
citizens desire for them. 
Apologizing for this lengthy explan- 
