. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. 2G6 AMERICAN HOME ; Like most other foul insects, they are found only upon trees that have first become unhealthy. Young apple or pear trees set in cold, wet soils, or injudiciously maniu'ed, or injured in their roots, or cracked by the borer ; oleanders housed in a too cold or fluctuating temperatm^e, and dusty, are especially liable to suffer f
. The American home garden. Being principles and rules for the culture of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and shrubbery. To which are added brief notes on farm crops, with a table of their average product and chemical constituents. Gardening. 2G6 AMERICAN HOME ; Like most other foul insects, they are found only upon trees that have first become unhealthy. Young apple or pear trees set in cold, wet soils, or injudiciously maniu'ed, or injured in their roots, or cracked by the borer ; oleanders housed in a too cold or fluctuating temperatm^e, and dusty, are especially liable to suffer from them. A variety known as Aspidiodotus Rosce infests roses, &c. As any cause which stunts and diseases the yomig tree will invite these quiet but destructive pests, so any means that will restore health to the tree will banish them, among which close v\-inter pruning, digging about it, and ap- plying compost or liquid manm-e from time to time, will be found most efficient; and, as preliminary to these, let the scales be crushed with a hard brush or ruliber of any kind, and the tree or plant thoroughly washed with the ley-wash, or whale- oil soap wash, or a strong infusion of tobacco. See page 284. Let this ha done in early spring, and repeated in summer if necessary. If, however, the subsoil be wet, and especially if it be at the same time level, and have the character of hard- pan, the insect will return, and only draining, or deep plow- ing, or subsoiling, with moderate manm-ing and annual plant- ing with hoed crops, as potatoes, corn, &c., at the same time leaving the trees abundant clear sjjace, and using the above remedies as they may seem to be required, will be likel}' to car- Yj them successfully past the peiiod of danger. The small- er birds destroy many of these insects, but are not numerous enough to keep them in check. WORJIS OR LARV^. APPLE-TREE BORERS. Fig. 126. b. a. Larva. &. Saperda bivittata, or tivo-striped beetle. llorer aQil parent Plea
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