Excerpt from The Gardener's Monthly and Horticultural Advertiser, 1863, Vol. 5 Much is said in books about admitting fresh air to plants: but take care to do so only on warm days. Fresh air is good when warm, but cold air is worse than none - there are always some crevices through which 'fresh air enters unless the house is very tight indeed, enough in fact to keep vegetation healthy. In watering plants chose the morning. Watering almost always cools the soil, and it has the sun through the day to get up the temperature again. If cooled off at night, it remains so till morning, and the check is great. In summer we water in the evening for different results required. Insects of course will be looked after at their very first appearance. The thrip, a very small lively long black insect, - the red Spider, a minute red fellow that Spins a very delicate web, - the green or black fly or aphis well known to every one, the brown and white scale insect like miniature oysters, - and the mealy bug, are the most common, and most destructive. Where they are taken in time they may be kept down by any occasional crushing where only a few plants have them, and these badly, hot-water at 130 Degrees dipping the plants a few times for a few seconds, is the best; for thrip and aphis, to bacco smoke is effectual, but should be given in small doses, several nights in succession, instead of only one full dose, which is liable to injure the foliage of many plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.