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DISEASED LEAVES. '~"L"E:w.—The leaves you sent reached me quite dry, and it would be unfair for me to pretend" I knew what was wrong. -When sending it is best to enclose in a tin surrounded by damp moss or paper. : Sorry I can't help you. . . ■• ■• .1 , TRANSPLANTING TREE-FERNS. Reader.—The best time to move the tree-ferns is in July. Lift with as large a ball of earth as possible, and after planting surround the stems with sacks, which should be kept wet. The fronds may be. cut off, as they :will die-in any case. It is very important to make the ferns very. secure, by staking if necessary. Removing the fronds, will make them less likely to be blown over.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 26
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