ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 



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Just after fruit is form- 

 ed. Use A2, with 2 

 lbs arsenate of lead. 



For worms when fruit is ripening, use hellebore 

 Look for aphids just before buds burst; if present 

 spray with Black Leaf 40 or kerosene emulsion or 

 whale-oil -soap. Of little use to spray for these 

 after leaves curl. 



If anthracnose is very severe, set out new planta- 

 tion of healthy shoots. If disease begins, cut out 

 old canes and as soon as fruit is picked, also badly- 

 attacked new ones, and burn. For red rust re- 

 move and burn plants at once. No other remedy. 

 For crown gall set out plants in fresh soil, rejecting 

 any plant with a gall on root or crown. 



BEAN 

 Anthracnose and 

 teriosis. 



Get seeds from pods showing no signs of disease. 



bac- Do not work among the plants if they are wet with 



rain or dew. Spraying scarcely pays, as a rule. 



TOMATO 

 Leaf blight, black rot, 

 flea-beetle. 



Spray plants in seed-bed with D. Keep foliage in 

 field covered with D until danger of staining fruit. 

 Add poison if necessary for flea beetles. 



ASPARAGUS 

 Rust, beetles. 



For rust, let no plants, not even wild ones, mature 

 during cutting s ason. Late in fall when growth 

 is about over, cut and burn old plants. For 

 bjetle , let poxdtry run in the plantation. After 

 cutting eason is over spray with arsenate of lead; 

 repeat in two weeks. May add sticker and a little 

 lime. 



NOTE — Al — Concentrated lime-sulphur, strength 1030 specific gravity (1032 

 for San Jose scale) — commercial Ume-sulphur diluted 1 to 8 or 9. 



A2 — Concentrated lime-sulphur, strength 1009 specific gravity = 

 commercial lime sulphur diluted 1 to 33. 



A3 — Concentrated lime-sulphur, strength 1008 specific gravity = 

 commercial lime-sulphur diluted 1 to 39 or 40. 



B — The old home-boiled lime-sulphur, 20.15.40 formtda. 



C — Self-boiled lime-sulphur. 



D — Bordeaux mixtvire, 4.4.40 formula. 



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See<i MerchaBtt Siaee 1 816 



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