114— How to Make the Garden Pay. 



the fields in May, the second in August, and the progeny of 

 the latter causes the most trouble. 



The sovereign remedy for this pest is fresh Pyrethrum pow- 

 der, generally called Persian or Dalmatian insect powder. The 

 imported article, when in full strength, is perfectly reliable, but 

 \ y^ when stale (and this is the usual 



condition of the powder on sale in 

 drug stores) gives rather uncertain 

 results. Buhach is a California 

 product, the ground flower of 

 PyrctJiriLin cincrariafoliuin, gen- 

 erally fresh, and put up in tight 

 tin cans, and in my experience has 

 never failed to give entire satisfac- 

 tion. While the imported article 

 may be bought for less money, pound for pound, the California 

 product, on account of greater strength and certain death-dealing 

 effect, is by far the cheaper in the end, and every gardener should 

 try to get buhach in preference to the common insect powder. 



The remedy can be applied in various ways. When to be 

 used in liquid form, take a tablespoonful of the pure powder, and 

 with a little water work it into a paste, then dilute with two 

 gallons of water, and sprinkle it on the plants with a watering 

 pot, or still better, apply in a fine spray with considerable force, 

 so that every worm will be reached. 



A very convenient mode of application for the home garden 

 is that in dry form, by means of a simple dusting apparatus or 

 pocket rubber bellows, as for instance shown in illustration. This, 



Butterfly of the Cabbage Worm. 



Simple Powder Bellows. 



or a similar and just as effectual one, can undoubtedly be had of 

 our friend, Wm. Henry Maule, of Philadelphia, Pa., or most other 

 seedsmen, at a mere nominal price. During the summer months 

 I generally carry one of the bellows charged with a mixture of 

 one part of buhach, and four or five of flour or air-slacked lime 

 in my pocket, and apply a few puffs here and there, wherever I 

 notice the effects of cabbage or similar worms. That puts a 

 sudden stop to their mischief The whole matter is so simple, 

 inexpensive and certain, and requiring so little time or effort, 

 that I would hardly give any man lo cents to insure me perfect 

 immunity from worms for each lOO head of cabbages. 



