PLANT FRIENDS AND PLANT p] 



other plant enemy which grows upon beets and cabbages. 

 Blights are formed on celery, cucumbers, and tomatoes, 

 and other garden vegetables. Still another serious plant 

 enemy is the scab of potato. All these fungi live at the 



expense of various 

 plants, and make them 

 wilt, or the leaves curl 

 up, or some other symp- 

 tom of disease occurs 

 This book does not teL 

 you exactly how to 

 distinguish the various 

 plant diseases. That 

 should be a home proj- 

 ect of your own, and 

 there are many excellent 

 pamphlets published by 

 your state or the Department of Agriculture to which you 

 can refer. For all of these fungous diseases, a very excellent 

 cure is Bordeaux mixture, which is best applied in a spray. 

 Light in relation to fungous growth. We must remem- 

 ber that fungi do not like light, and therefore the garden 

 which is very well shaded and too moist makes a favora- 

 ble place for them to grow. We should never have trees, 

 or many bushes, planted around our garden, for not only 

 do these larger plants take a great deal of " plant food " 

 from the soil, but they may do considerable harm also 

 by shading young growing plants. 



Insect pests. Everybody who has had a garden of his 

 own knows that sooner or later he must expect to find 

 insects doing damage there. The insect damage to all 

 kinds of living trees and plants in the United States in a 



Sample* of Bordeaux mixture. Two and 

 bow Btde ttUtiftc and are the beat. 



