CARE OF POT PLANTS
When going away, housewives usually board out the cat, arrange with a neighbour to feed the fowls, and pawn the canary, but often the pot plants are quite overlooked, and ■ when vou return home, you find them dried up and nearly at Death’s door. The most sensible and humane thing to do is to leave the pots standing in pans of water. They will not only flourish, but will be vastly unproved on your return. Women are not the only ones who benefit by a cup of tea. Begonias and almost all plants respond to tea treatment* Pour the tea and leaves into the plate or saucer under the pot, so that the liquid will be absorbed by the roots. Once a week take a solution of milk and water and apply it to the leaves of you r plants with a soft brush. Following their sponge bath the leiives will appear clean nnd fresh. If vou have window boxes and they are besieged by ants, strew salt about the earth and on the frames and the villains will bo routed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 11
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