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Red Spider on Datura. 



lOll. — Please tell me through Horticul- 

 turist, what to do for a small insect that in- 

 fests the Datura Brugmansia. It is a very 

 small insect of a greenish yellow color, and is 

 on the under side of the leaves which turns 

 yellow and falls off. You will find a leaf en- 

 closed. 



F, J. Frampton. 



Jie/>/y by Dr. Fletcher, Central Ex- 

 pertnental Farm, Ottaiva. 



Mr. Frampton's Brugmansia is at- 

 tacked by the ordinary Red Spider. 

 The best remedy for this is to fertilize 

 the plant well if he has it growing in a 

 pot, repot if necessary and stimulate 

 with a little nitrate of soda (in the pro- 

 portion of one ounce in three gallons of 

 water) once a week for the three weeks or 

 one of the. specially prepared fertilizers 

 for house plants such as Albert's Horti- 

 cultural Manure, Bouker's Plant Food, 

 etc. There are many of these put up 

 in convenient tins and all of them use- 



ful and very similar in composition. 

 This will strengthen the plant very 

 much and help it to overcome the in- 

 jury which has been done to the leaves. 

 To check the increase of the insects the 

 plants, if not too large, should be in- 

 verted and thoroughly washed in a basin 

 of ?oapsuds, made preferably with 

 whale-oil soap, but, if this is not con- 

 venient any ordinary soap will do. 

 While still wet, the plant should be 

 dusted, particularly beneath the leaves, 

 with powdered sulphur. Spraying 

 plants with finely powdered sulphur in 

 water is an excellent remedy for the 

 Red Spider. Upon large plants, shrubs 

 or trees out of doors, spraying with 

 kerosene emulsion is the best remedy 

 for Red Spider. The remedy frequent- 

 ly recommended of spraying with pure 

 water so as to keep the air damp, I have 

 found of very little use, even in a green- 

 house. 



Housekeeper.—" It's queer that the 

 potatoes you bring should be so much 

 bigger on the top of the basket than 

 they are at the bottom. Grower. — "P'ta- 

 ters, ma'am, is growin' so fast now that 

 by the time I git a basketful dug the 

 last ones is ever so much bigger than 

 the fust ones."— Credit Lost. 



Here is a stereotyped jokelet seeking 

 recognition : " Hello," said the chest- 

 nut to the robin, " what are you ? " "I 

 am a little bird," said the robin, " and 

 what are you ? " " I'm a little burred, 

 too," said the chestnut. 



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