THE RURAL SCIENCE SERIES 
ees 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. 
398 PACES—982 ILLUSTRATIONS—$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 first part a complete 
history of the rise of spraying, both in this country and abroad. 
There are also full illustrated accounts of pumps and nozzles, com- 
plete recipes of formulas, and the like. The second part, compris- 
ing 135 pages, entitled “Specific Directions for Spraying Cultivated 
Plants,” is an alphabetical illustrated account of the various insects 
and fungi, with methods of treating them. 
“Mr. Lodeman has gathered the results of an immense amount of 
experiments, both in Europe and America, and his book can be trusted not 
only as a manual of practice, but as a true and well classified record of our 
knowledge on this subject at the present time.”—Garden and Forest. 
“There is nothing else on the subject so new, complete, accurate and 
available.”— Evening Post (N.Y.) 
