PLANTS AS ILL PREVENTIVES.
In tropical countries, where the dea '.- ly malarial mist rises' from the hot swamps, the first thing that the settler does is to plant the eucalyptus. Euc.-i-Ivptus drains the damp fever-laden soil by evaporation of water through its leaf surfaces. In the Thames and other river valleys the soil is' often unpleasantly damp. In such plates sunflowers should be planted. The sunflower draws off moisture more rapidly than any other annual. A house can be kept free of mosquitoes if two or three of the "antimosquito plants" are placed in each room. The castoribean is a handsome plant. and quite harmless'. Y T et it is detested by all the animal world, and not even locusts will eat its leaves, or the mole bore its way through'its roots. No garden should lie without honeysuckle, because of the number of honeybees it attracts... Every gardener knows how necessary hecß are for the proper fertilisation of his flowers. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 127, 26 June 1909, Page 4
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161PLANTS AS ILL PREVENTIVES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 127, 26 June 1909, Page 4
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