HOW TO WASH HOUSE PLANTS.
Have a large pail or tut) filled with warm soapsuds, then spreading the fingers and palm vf the left hand «ver the. soil in" the pot, turn the pot topsyturvy into the warm . soapsuas,' swing the. plant briskly in the watectill every ; leo has become completely.' saturated* thfen ;put it through, a pail, of clean water, tind rub each leaf with the thumb and finger* give it a good shake; and when- 4ry> return,, it to, its place 'in the window. Tfae leaves of- a plant are its lungs, eacfi leaf being furnished withiiutidreds" o¥*mliiiite r whence the plants breathe AP carbon jajid i©^^ • ■osygen i Tb6 perspiration* of. ,|>lan^m said 1 to be-sevent©Bii ■ times ~&si toiisbimian.botly.; ! Mhfty-s}knte^styifil<Mm:l .r^^oiißt.pfjtfee/.^buTmj^^ ;? ~.npon their leaves.,. r A~ plant Jtqol laV^e , to be laid down, in ; a * tuVi as j above : described; lna)r be 1 syringed/- and eacb','l^^ and tU^mß," which! jhip pulb pose tban a brush or cloth.^-^Land and. Water.
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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 75, 16 December 1875, Page 7
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162HOW TO WASH HOUSE PLANTS. Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 75, 16 December 1875, Page 7
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