. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . f flour, sifted ashes or road dustor mixed with one hundred pounds of land plaster. When thusused they are easily applied by means of a coarse linen are a number of proprietary insecticides for the potatobeetle but they generally depend for their success on the arsenicthey contain. But no matter what insecticide is applied, in orderto do the most good it should be used as soon as the young larvaecan be seen on the leaves. The Imported and Native Cabbage Worm (Pieris sp.).—The imported cabbage wo
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . f flour, sifted ashes or road dustor mixed with one hundred pounds of land plaster. When thusused they are easily applied by means of a coarse linen are a number of proprietary insecticides for the potatobeetle but they generally depend for their success on the arsenicthey contain. But no matter what insecticide is applied, in orderto do the most good it should be used as soon as the young larvaecan be seen on the leaves. The Imported and Native Cabbage Worm (Pieris sp.).—The imported cabbage worm resembles our native species andboth of them are very destructive to cabbage, turnip, cauliflowerand similar vegetables and to such flowering plants as mignon-ette, stocks and nasturtiums. They feed on the leaves andwill often destroy the cabbage crop unless preventive measures INJURIOUS INSECTS. 91 are taken. The worms of the imported species are green incolor, while our native species are bluish with yellow butterflies of both species are much alike. They are gener-.
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