XI 

 GARDEN PESTS AND SPRAYING 



EVERY beginner is apt to meet the discouragements 

 that come with the appearance of insect and 

 fungous pests in nearly every garden at some time. 

 You may wonder why your lovely flowers or your fat 

 vegetables, your stately Hollyhocks or your practical 

 potatoes seem, of a sudden, not only to stop growing 

 but actually to wither or decay. You will have to look 

 closely at their leaves and search around their roots for 

 the trouble that is brewing. You will find that insects 

 or fungous growths have appeared to disturb their 

 peace. Indeed almost every plant under cultivation 

 is subject to some blight or pest from which, in its wild 

 state, the plant has been free. 



However, there is now hardly a single plant ail- 

 ment that we are either unfamiliar with or unable to 

 cope with, wherefore liquid spraying, or the application 

 of liquid fungicides and insecticides to affected trees, 

 shrubs, vines, and plants, has become an expedient of 

 the greatest importance to everyone having a lawn or 

 garden. It is a disheartening thing to see the plants you 

 have worked over and nurtured turn sere-leaved out 

 of season, droop and die, when you have looked forward 



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