The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



CABBAGE WORM 



Spray with poisoned resin-lime mixture if the 

 plants are young; after heads have formed use 

 kerosene emulsion or hot water, preferably the 

 latter. 



CABBAGE ROOT MAGGOT 



Protect the plants with disks of tar paper and 

 wet the soil with Paris green solution or emulsion 

 composed of one pound of soap, one gallon of 

 boiling water and one pint of crude carboHc acid 

 diluted with forty parts of water, using sufficient 

 to soak the soil several inches. 



CELERY BLIGHT 



Spray with Bordeaux mixture once in two 

 weeks, until plants are half grown. 



CUCUMBERS 



For the striped beetle, use tobacco dust about 

 the hills. Spray plants and ground with kero- 

 sene emulsion. Wrap rags saturated with kero- 

 sene about sticks and stick in center of hills to 

 repel bugs with the odor. Better still, protect 



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