THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



A veteran gardener has the almost unconscious habit, while 

 working among his beds, weeding or setting out plants, of 

 keeping his eye out for these workers of iniquity. 



Cutworms may be entrapped by making with a pointed 

 stick two or three deep holes by the side of the plant. Being 

 unable to climb out they are easily killed. If the garden has 

 been greatly troubled with cutworms it is well to plough the 

 land in the autumn and let the birds dispose of the enemy. 

 They are often dealt with by poisoned bait — ^bunches of clover 

 sprinkled with arsenites, and stiff collars of paper are placed 

 around the plants as a protection. 



Insects Which May be Dealt with in Masses 



Aphides, plant-lice, red spiders, and other soft-bodied suck- 

 ing insects are usually met with kerosene emulsion or whale- 

 oil soap, or else with tobacco-water, the former being chiefly 

 used on shrubs and woody vines, the latter on herbaceous 

 plants and in the greenhouse. 



The commonest garden uses of tobacco-water are for sweet 

 peas, heUopsis, rudbeckia, and the Hke, when afflicted by the 

 red aphis; for chrysanthemums attacked by the black aphis. 

 To make tobacco-water, pour one gallon of boiling water on 

 one pound of tobacco. When cool apply by a spray. 



Kerosene emulsion is used on roses when afflicted by plant- 

 lice, mites, hoppers, thrips, red spiders; also on hollyhocks 

 when attacked by the green hollyhock bug. Here is the recipe: 

 Two gallons of boihng water, half a pound of hard soap, two 

 gallons of kerosene. Dissolve the soap in boiHng water, add 

 kerosene and churn for five or ten minutes. Dilute from ten 

 to twenty-five times before applying. 



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