Show cold water injures plants guard against the application of cold or hard bard water to the roots of plants and especially in the winter mouths months when there has been a heavy fall of snow enow hail or cold rains the water in the tanks then becomes very much too cold this may not be noticed in the ordinary course of things and the plants are sure to suffer a check at the roots that in the case of camellias for instance would bo be quite sufficient to cause bud dropping I 1 am always very careful that the water in our tanks is a few degrees warmer than the louse IOUs e in which tho the plants planta are growing tills this is very important in successful plant culture we are apt to say sometimes on beholding a sickly plant one mildewed mil dewed or with rust on the foliage that it must have been subjected to a draft or current of cold air whereas the probable cause was the use of cold water which paralyzed the roots proof of this may easily be seen by giving one or two applications application S of cold water to winter cucumbers or kidney beans when setting their pods exchange |