. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. ENEMIES OF PLANTS 195 sene, one gallon. Dissolve soap in hot water while still h
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. ENEMIES OF PLANTS 195 sene, one gallon. Dissolve soap in hot water while still hot but removed from fire; add kerosene and pump back and forth till it becomes a creamy mass. If made properly the solution will not separate upon cooling. When using, dilute with ten to fifteen parts water. Tobacco. The various forms of to- bacco ejctracts as a spray or powder, are the most useful against plant Uce. Pyrethrum is the dried and powdered flowers of a certain Chrysanthemum, and is useful against thrips and plant lice. As a dust it is appUed while foliage is moist. Poisonous Insecticides. Use for chewing insects, slugs, cut-worms, maggots, caterpillars, and most insects called worms. The most used substance for this t.^^ „i? . 1 . A useful hand-ptiinp spray engine suitable type Ot control is arsenic. for large? spraying operations Arseifate of Lead. This sub- stance is used, at various strengths, depending on the plant affected and the insect working. It is now the most used remedy for cater- pillars, slugs, maggots and worms feeding upon the foliage of plants. Paris Green. Has same use as arsenate of lead, but is not quite s6 effective. Hellebore. This is procured as a powder. It is much less poison- ous than arsenical insecticides and is very useful upon ripening fruits, especially for the Currant worm. It is appUed when dew is on the plants. For worms on Currant aijd Gooseberry bushes sprinkle slaked hme very lightly. Slugs and cutworms are easily controlled b
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