Mid-Season Vegetables 



eggs and larvae too. Soaking the ground with 

 Paris green solution — a teaspoonful of the poison 

 to a large watering pot of water is sufficient and 

 the solution must be kept stirred to prevent its 

 settling — will destroy the maggot, but it may also 

 poison the turnip so is not to be recommended; 

 also, if the worm has attacked the radish or tur- 

 nip and rendered it unsightly and unfit for the 

 table, tobacco and hot water then are the two 

 safest and most reliable applications and the 

 hot water over the tobacco is especially effective. 

 Disks made from heavy tar paper are sold for 

 the protection of cabbage and cauliflower plants 

 and may be cheaply made at home and though a 

 little more trouble to apply about turnips and 

 radishes still are practical and better than losing 

 the crop. The disks may be either round or 

 square and should be about three inches in diam- 

 eter with a hole the size of the stem in the center 

 and a slit extending out from the hole on one side 

 to the edge; this allows the disk to be slipped 

 around the stem of the plant. A leather punch 



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