74 HOW TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



Ike Striped Bug. 



An Illinois gardener, after using ground or calcined 

 plaster as a remedy for striped bugs, at last improved 

 upon it. 



" I used Paris green and calcined plaster, in the 

 proportion of one of the former to fifteen of the latter, 

 as a destroyer of the potato-bug, mid also I tried it on 

 squash and vnelou and cacuraber vines, with good suc- 

 cess. 



" The mixture was dusted on from a common dredg- 

 ing-box, and has proved equally effectual against the 

 Colorado potato-beetle and the striped bug. 



" On squashes of the tenderest variety of foliage, like 

 the HubbarJ, for instance, and on the hardier, like 

 Cmylin and the winter crookneck, this mixture may be 

 put on while the plant is wet or dry, and does not in- 

 jure them ; and so of musk-melons and cucumbers. But 

 on water-melons the mixture must be used with care." 



Cucumber-bug. 



Mix hellebore and flour together and scatter over the 

 vine and insects. 



Colorado Potato-beetle. 



Paris green is sufficient. Mix with very fine ashes 

 in the proportion of twenty to one. Take a tomato- 

 can, with holes in the bottom like a grater and a cover 

 on the top, attach to a long pole, and dust the plants 

 with the powder. A few hours will be sufficient to go 



