How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities . deaux mixture is used to prevent rusts, mil-dews, decay and all plant diseases. Another remedyfor rusts and mildews on roses or other plants, is tosift, or better, blow a thin coating of flowers-of-sulphurover the plants. Potassium sulphide or liver-of-sulphurmay be applied for the same purpose. Use 1 ounce dis-solved in 2 gallons of water. It does not discolor the foliagebut has a disagreeable odor. SPRAYING MIXTURES FOR INSECTS. For Sucking Insects. The following mixtures
How to make home and city beautiful, prepared to help those interested in making attractive homes and beautiful cities . deaux mixture is used to prevent rusts, mil-dews, decay and all plant diseases. Another remedyfor rusts and mildews on roses or other plants, is tosift, or better, blow a thin coating of flowers-of-sulphurover the plants. Potassium sulphide or liver-of-sulphurmay be applied for the same purpose. Use 1 ounce dis-solved in 2 gallons of water. It does not discolor the foliagebut has a disagreeable odor. SPRAYING MIXTURES FOR INSECTS. For Sucking Insects. The following mixtures aredestructive to all insects that suck the juice, as green fly,plant lice, etc. Kerosene Emulsion: Dissolve % cake of AND CITY BEAUTIFUL 93 ivory or any good hard soap shaved fine in one pint ofwater, remove from the fire and add one quart of kero-sene. Churn with a force pump or pour from one pailto another for about ten minutes when it should be thor-oughly mixed. Take one pint of this stock emulsion andadd seven quarts of water and mix. It will mix easier ifthe water is warm. Apply this to the bushes with force. Plant Lice in as fine a spray as possible. For all kinds of plantlice, spray two days in succession and as often as theyreappear. Ivory Soap Solution. Dissolve i lb. cake in 4 gal-lons of water. Apply when luke warm. Whale oil soapshould be applied according to the printed directions. Tobacco Dust. Tobacco dust and tobacco water isalso good. The dust should be sifted or blown with a blowerover the leaves and twigs. Individual house plants maybe treated by placing a paper bag over the plant and hav- 94 HOW TO MAKE HOME ing some friend who smokes, puff the smoke of a cigarinto the bag. This is often the easiest treatment for houseplants. The bag should remain for some time over theplant, to hold the smoke until the plant lice are powder and Bug Death are also used to destroytroublesome sucking insects. For Chewing Insects it is necessary to apply an a
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