PLANT LORE.
If you add one teaspoonful of turpentine to one quart of water and use this on your plants once a week, the leaves and flowers will be brighter. Your ferns will grow more luxuriantly if you give them two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, at the roots, onco a month.
Always take the chill off the water before watering your plants. Cold water is too great a shock for house plants. To keep the leaves of your,plants nice and clean, sponge them once a week with equal pa.'ts of milk and lukewarm water.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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94PLANT LORE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20668, 13 September 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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