MORE FLOWER LANGUAGE.
So far English sugar-beet is one of the few plants that is almost wholly free from serious disease. As with cotton in Australia, its enemies have not yet been introduced. The plant can, of course, look well or ill. The growers, indeed, showed examples of the new Rothamsted system of diagnosing dymptorns, of which I wrote something the other day. Their examples from beet were almost as remarkable 'as the Rot hamsted examples from barley. A sickly, moribund plant of barley indicates an S 0 S for calcium. Collapse of the straw or " lodging " is a cry for potash. A paling of the green calls for nitrogen. We shall soon have a little rule-of-thum6- vocabulary of symptoms that will tell us instantly the needs
and demands of any of our garden plants.
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