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THE RURAL SCIENCE SERIES 



HE SPRAYING OF PLANTS: A 



Succinct Account of the History, Principles 

 and Practice of the Application of Liquids 

 and Powders to Plants for the Purpose of 

 Destroying Insects and Fungi. By E. G. 



LODEMAN, late Instructor in Horticulture in the 

 Cornell University. 



309 PACES— 92 I LLU STR ATION S— S 1 .00 



In these days this subject is conceded to be of 

 especial importance to the horticulturist; for it is 

 only by intelligent spraying that many Large fruit 

 interests are saved from utter extinction. Professor 

 Lodeman treats the subject both historically and 

 practically, and the work forms the only complete 

 manual of spraying, being admittedly the standard 

 authority. Not only is spraying discussed in its 

 relations to the plant or tree and the crop, but the 

 diseases and insects which are to be combatted are 

 most fully presented. 



The Spraying of Plants includes In its Aral pari a complete 

 history of the rise of spraying, both in this country and abroad. 

 There are also full Illustrated accounts of pumps and nossles, com- 

 plete recipes of formulas, and the like. The Becond part, compris- 

 ing 135 pages, entitled "Specific Directions for Spraying Cultivated 

 Plants," is an alphabetical illustrated account of the various Ins 



and fungi, with methods of treating them. 



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"Mr. Lodeman has gathered the results of an Immense amount <>f 

 experiments, both in Europe and America, and his book can be trusted not 

 onlj aa :i manual ol pracUoe, but as a true and well classified record "t our 

 knowledge on this subject at the present time. 1 *— Garden and Wom 



"There is nothing else on the subject so new, complete, accurate and 

 available." Evening Pott \ \ 



