8B HOW TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



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fs the cheapeot and most easily applied remedy for gar 

 den insects that I have y^t seen." 



Striped Buys, " For striped bugs on melons aca 

 cucumber-vines I find the same method of using the 

 soap quite effective, if the sawdust is sprinkled on the 

 plants every day, which is very little trouble; but the 

 plants may be wet directly with weak suds, made ot ten 

 gallons of water to half a pound ot soap." 



Aphis Plant-lice. " For aphis or plant-lice on 

 cherry-trees and the like a sprinkling or two with the 

 suds by means ot a sponge, or bending the ehoots so as 

 to dip them into a pail or basin, is speedy death to the 

 bugs. Care must be used not to have the euds too 

 strong when applied to tender plants or young shoots 

 of trees." 



Grape-vine Wormt, Carbolic-acid washes are cer- 

 tain death to worms that infest the leaves of grape- 

 vines. A pound of the article dissolved in fifteen or 

 twenty gallons of water will form a large quantity, 

 which can be forced bj* a syiinge over the entire vine, 

 one or two applications drive away everything of in- 

 sect nature. 



Wash for Peach-trees, etc. For all garden fruit- 

 trees use it in the proportion of one pound of soap to 

 ten gallons of water ; sprinkle well over the bark, and 

 ants, worms, borers, flies will all flee. 



Experiments on Garden Trees, Shrubs, etc., with 

 Carbolio Soap. The editor of the Horticulturist, after 



