. How to fight garden pests; illustrated and with spraying tables . Twig covered with San Josr .scale, the wcjrst eiicni^- of fruit treea 32 HOW TO FIGHT GARDEN PESTS good, but, in order to make them effective, care mustbe taken that all parts of the tree be thoroughlycovered, as they kill the scale by suffocating it. On a. ! I Blossom end of apple thickly infested with young scale, with afew full-grown scales, and showing the purplish discoloration small place, where only one tree is affected, the bestway is to scrub it off with a brush and some good,strong insecticide, like whale-oil soap. A
. How to fight garden pests; illustrated and with spraying tables . Twig covered with San Josr .scale, the wcjrst eiicni^- of fruit treea 32 HOW TO FIGHT GARDEN PESTS good, but, in order to make them effective, care mustbe taken that all parts of the tree be thoroughlycovered, as they kill the scale by suffocating it. On a. ! I Blossom end of apple thickly infested with young scale, with afew full-grown scales, and showing the purplish discoloration small place, where only one tree is affected, the bestway is to scrub it off with a brush and some good,strong insecticide, like whale-oil soap. After clean-ing the scale off, whitewash the tree thoroughly. HOW TO FIGHT GARDEN PESTS 33 Asparagus is troubled sometimes in spring with acutworm which cuts off the shoots just below theground. The only remedy for this is to put plentyof air-slaked lime or soot in your ground. Duringsummer the asparagus will sometimes be attackedby a beetle which eats off the outer covering of thestem. This greatly weakens the plants. Sprayingwith a poison, such as paris green or arsenate oflead, will stop its depredations. Dusting helleboreon the plants in the morning, when the dew is onthem, is effective. Beans are subject to rust. If your beans weretroubled with it last season, start spraying earlythis year with bordeaux mixture,
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