CONTROL OP GARDEN DISEASES AND INSECTS. 



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or bury, as soon as found, plants having mosaic or wilt. Spray with 

 Bordeaux mixture as soon as the first evidences of downy mildew 

 are found. 



EGGPLANT. 



Eggplant is subject to the attack of the same insects as potatoes, 

 which are treated on pages 55 to 57. After the Colorado potato 

 beetle has attacked the first crop of potatoes, it continues w'ork on 

 eggplant. 



EGGPLANT LACE-BUG. 



The eggplant lace-bug (fig. 55) has been injurious in recent years. 

 It feeds by sucking and sometimes is accompanied by plant-lice. 

 Nicotine sulphate at the rate of 2 ounces to 12 gallons of water will 

 kill all nymphs and most adults. See "Nicotine sulphate" (p. 10). 



FRUIT-ROT. 



Fruit-rot of eggplant is a disease occurring on the leaves and stem, 

 as well as on the fruit, which causes it to rot rapidly. It also causes 

 a damping - off of 

 seedlings. 



No effective con- 

 trol measures are 

 known. Destroy 

 diseased fruits or 

 plants. 



The plants some- 

 times wilt suddenly 

 and die. Pull and 

 destroy diseased 

 plants. Rotate. 



Fig. 55. — The eggplant lace-bug (Qartiaphia solani) 

 Greatly enlarged. (Fiuk.) 



Lettuce is at- 

 tacked by the let- 

 tuce root-louse, the 

 cabbage looper, the 

 celery caterpillar, 

 cutworms, thou- 

 sand-legged worms, and about four species of plant-lice. Lettuce 

 frequently watered is often free from insects. 



Control of lettuce inseots. — It is extremely difficult to treat any 

 of these pests in the garden with insecticides, because of the danger 

 of poisoning the consumer or injuring the plants. When very young 



