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Propagating Roses; Plant Lice 
1. Will you tell me the best way to root 
rose cuttings or slips? I haVe tried time 
and time again, without success. 2. I 
have two rose geraniums which I took in 
the house in the Fall. Now the stems are 
covered with little green insects. What 
can I do to rid the plants of them? 
Staten Island. h. j. l. 
1. Full instructions for garden propa¬ 
gation of roses were given on page 171, 
issue of Feb. 2, 1924. 
2. The _ rose geraniums are infested 
with aphis, which can be controlled by 
spraying or dipping in soapsuds or tobac¬ 
co. Ordinary laundry soap, dissolved at 
the rate of 1 lb. to five gallons of water, 
is excellent for this purpose. Do not 
allow the pest to spread to other plants. 
Culture of Christmas Cactus 
W ill you tell me name of plant from 
which I inclose slip ; also the kind of soil 
required, and does plant need much sun? 
Mine is a potted plant, several years old, 
but had no flowers this past year. a. y. 
Glenbrook, Conn. 
The leaf inclosed is the Christmas or 
crab cactus, Epiphyllum. The fact that 
it does not bloom suggests impaired root 
action, and the most probably cause is 
sour, soggy soil from over-watering. The 
Epiphyllum requires a sunny location, 
with light, rich, sandy soil, and abun¬ 
dant drainage, for it commonly grows 
upon trees in the Brazilian forests, where 
it has abundant moisture except for com¬ 
paratively short periods. While making 
its active growth outside in Summer it 
needs plenty of water and sun, but it 
should never be waterlogged, nor should 
the pot stand in some container that will 
hold drainage water. It should be brought 
indoors before there are cold rains, which 
are often injurious to the roots of warm- 
loving plants, and when first brought in 
should be watered rather sparingly for a 
time, then more freely as 'buds begin to 
form. We flower this cactus every Win¬ 
ter in the house, and consider it one of 
the easiest window plants to grow and 
bloom. The kitchen window, if sunny, 
should be a congenial place for it. Water 
carefully, and when you put it outside 
next Summer see that the pot is well 
drained, and treat it well until brought 
in again. A severe chill sometimes causes 
loss of leaves, and also causes the buds to 
drop. It inay be that drafts around the 
window are another cause of trouble. 
Cold, windy niguts we put a newspaper 
against the win low as additional protec¬ 
tion. 
Annihilating the Wild Flowers 
In all directions you hear talk of pre¬ 
serving the wild flowers. Societies for 
this purpose have been organized, in near¬ 
ly all of our towns, villages and cities. 
That is a good deed. They do need pro¬ 
tection from vandalism. Picking every 
bloom is the usual rule, so there is no 
seed produced, and even pulling them up 
by the roots, from no earthly reason 
other than that they are too indolent to 
cut them properly. School children are 
let loose on one’s property, and each 
child seems to try to see which one can 
do the most damage in the shortest 
amount of time. People will descend on 
arbutus, pull and tear the plants up in 
great handfuls; when they have finished 
that clump, go on to another, ruining all 
within- their sight. When their work is 
done it looks as if an excited cow had 
with her horns been uprooting the earth 
where the arbutus grew. 
Our black alder bushes are demolished 
because of the “Fall raids” by auto par¬ 
ties in. search of the red berries for dec¬ 
orative purposes. 
. We have quantities of native wood 
lilies; for the same reason we cannot get 
a bloom or save a seed. The fringed gen¬ 
tian has been exterminated. They did 
look so pretty growing. One could con¬ 
tinue almost indefinitely. I certainly do 
not app ove of this slaughter of our wild 
flowers. There is reason in all things, so 
there is, on this subject, another side to 
the question. 
A great many flower lovers transplant 
these wildlings, let them increase, and in 
their turn distribute them to others, al¬ 
ways increasing their production, where, 
in many cases, if left where they grew, 
from one cause and another they would 
be totally destroyed. 
There are laws made in regard to ar¬ 
butus, which grows in quantities on this 
range, and not stretching the truth one 
particle, there are carloads destroyed each 
year, ruthlessly pulled up by the roots by 
people who do not own an inch of land 
they prowl over. For these people the 
law cannot be too severe, yet if one wishes 
to send a small box of the flowers to a dis¬ 
tant friend who would appreciate it so 
much, it cannot be done, unless breaking 
the law of the State and laying oneself 
liable to a heavy fine. At the same time 
the laws would better be too strict than 
too lax about it. If there could be a law 
arrived at to meet all the conditions re¬ 
quired it would be great. Each year I 
carefully lift and send away many native 
plants and follow the laws just as near 
as I can understand them. I hope that 
everyone will be educated up to the stand¬ 
ard where each person will be a protector 
to the wildlings and all flower lovers can 
enjoy these native pets, j. l. ii. 
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