INSECTS AND SPRAYS 



The first requisite in spraying flowers, vines, 

 shrubbery, and trees for bugs and worms is to know 

 what variety of pest you are trying to eliminate. 

 To use some one spray as a general insecticide is 

 practically a waste of time. What is poison to one 

 bug may be food to another. So, first, know what 

 it is you are trying to kill and then learn what it is 

 that will kill it. A local florist may not always 

 give correct advice as to a solution. If he has one 

 or two good insecticides, he may suggest them as 

 being valuable for all nuisances. Sometimes this 

 advice may be through ignorance, for not all 

 flower-sellers are flower-culturists, but more often 

 it is through the desire to sell his product and 

 he is willing for you and your plants to take the 

 risk. 



Certain small insects such as scale often do a 

 great deal of harm before the amateur gardener 

 realizes that the plant is not thriving or before he 

 has any idea what the trouble can be. Any un- 



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