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Cleanliness for Plants

Fre- liquor will answer the same purpose, but it quently the cause of the languidness of plants will make the grass look brown for some time in rooms, arises from want of care in cleans- afterwards. (See No. 1865.) ing the leaves. Plants breathe by their 1877. Composition for Wounds on leaves, which should be kept perfectly clean, Rose-Bushes. Take 5 parts black pitch, 1 otherwise their respiration is interfered with. part each resin, tailow, and bees' wax; these The mere watering of the roots is not enough. should be mixed in a small pipkin, and dis- Plants also perspire by their leaves, and any solved over a slow fire. Apply it to the accumulation of dirt and dust retards this useful function. Plants also feed by their leaves, by absorbing the carbonic acid of the atmosphere; and, to speak familiarly, dirt destroys both their appetite and digestion.

Let any one examine a sickly plant, long kept wounds with a brush, and it will heal them, as well as prevent their dying back.