38 On destroying the Med Spider. 



would treat them as useful plants. I am no enemy to nursery- 

 men, for I am confident we could not do without them. I 

 am a root-grown gardener, and my greatest delight is to 

 see the business, in all its branches, flourish. I don't ask 

 nurserymen to give gardeners extravagant wages, but merely 

 as much as they can subsist on, till they meet with a situation, 

 and which would prevent gentlemen from taking advantage of 

 their absolute necessity. I wish nurserymen and gardeners 

 united, for the good of all, but not combined to impose upon 

 gentlemen. I wish all gentlemen well served, nurserymen as 

 well paid as they have been, and gardeners better paid, for 

 " none but gardeners know a gardener's care." 

 Yorkshire, August 14. 1826. 



Art. XVI. A simple and effectual Method of destroying the 

 Red Spider. By Mr. Alfred Kendall, Gardener to the 

 Reverend H. Palmer, Carleton Curlieu, Leicestershire. 



Dear Sir, 

 As the avowed principle of the Gardener's Magazine is the 

 advancement of horticultural knowledge, more particularly 

 among practical men, every gardener ought to consider him- 

 self bound to contribute any thing in his power that may in 

 any way further so useful a design. Let not the young gar- 

 denei', therefore, be discouraged in making any communication, 

 at the idea of being laughed, at by his more scientific brethren ; 

 for whilst the work in question continues to be ably conducted, 

 no article will meet the eye of the public that the young gar- 

 dener will ever live to be ashamed of; and let me add, that 

 chance sometimes detects what has escaped the most scientific 

 exertions. In contributing my mite towards furthering this 

 object, I think nothing will be more acceptable to the practical 

 gardener than a simple, easy, safe, and effectual remedy for 

 that destructive enemy to vegetation, the red spider. Every 

 gardener must have experienced its destructive effects, but 

 few, comparatively speaking, know how to counteract them. 

 Sulphur is often applied with advantage: but to some plants 

 that remedy is worse than the disease ; for though it does not 

 injure the peach or the vine, it is death to the melon, and 

 there is no plant so high in esteem, more subject to the attack, 

 nor more susceptible of the injurious effects of that pernicious 

 insect. In making this communication, I by no means lay 

 any claim to the discovery of so excellent a remedy : my only- 

 wish is to make it more generally known, as I have never seen 

 it noticed in any publication, not even in that excellent work, 



