H oiise and Garden 
of course, more costly to plant a succes¬ 
sion of flowers, such as tulip or hyacinth 
bulbs in the spring, and geraniums for 
the balance of the season. At the same 
time the fresh beauty of the latter repays 
the outlay of time and money. 
The small white worms that some¬ 
times infest the surface soil of pot plants 
may be destroyed by applying a mixture 
of wood soot and sulphur in ecpial pro¬ 
portions as a dressing and working it into 
the soil .—New York Herald. 
PALMS 
^ I ^HE use of palms for outdoor decora- 
tive effects during the summer 
has wrought the ruin of many a nice and 
valuable specimen. The practice, at 
all times a risky proceeding, very closely 
resembles reckless sacrifice. The grat¬ 
ifying results of many years of skilful 
labor and careful watching have often 
thus been thrown to the winds of one 
short season. It is an error to think 
that cultivated palms, home grown and 
reared under artificial conditions, must 
still be set down as natives of torrid 
zones, children from the sun-scorched 
and wind-swept coast stretches of trop¬ 
ical climes. There I have seen them, 
stumbled over their roots for days and, 
sorry to say it, failed to be gushingly 
impressed with their imposing grandeur. 
I beheld them with the eyes of the North¬ 
ern gardener, compared these hoboes in 
their rags and tatters, with those proud 
aristocrats in our conservatories and 
became well satisfied that a free and 
help-thyself existence greatly impairs 
the dignified bearing of any one of the 
many members of this royal family. 
Why palms are so often employed in 
outdoor plant arrangements, especially 
on private places—mostly against the 
will of the gardener in charge—is easily 
explained by their great effectiveness 
either as single specimens or parts of 
a compact group. In such a case, a set 
of damaged and weather-beaten plants, 
if such there are, will do service for 
several seasons. It is hard to thus kill 
a palm outright, which would open a 
welcome way of ridding the place of 
some of the most unsightly of the lot. 
Instead they remain, for the greater 
part of the year a disgrace to the palm 
house. Such a state of affairs with no 
suggestion of hope for anything in the 
way of justified disposal of the unsightly 
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