238 GARDEN PROFITS 



A satisfactory and handy spray or wash for these 

 may be made by dissolving a block of ordinary 

 toilet soap in water, and applying the solution with 

 a small sprayer or simply by washing the plants 

 with a rag or sponge. 



To make the soap solution take a cube of white 

 soap about an inch square or a trifle larger, shave 

 it up fine, and dissolve in one gallon of warm, soft 

 water. 



PYRETHRUM IN WATER 



Ordinary pyrethrum or "insect powder," if 

 fresh, is of considerable value as a spray or wash for 

 plants indoors. If stale, it is of practically no value 

 whatever. 



The strength generally used is at the rate of one 

 ounce of the powder to two or three gallons of 

 water. 



For Small Quantities. Take one heaping tea- 

 spoonful of the pyrethrum and add it to two quarts of 

 warm water. Allow it to stand for a while before use. 



POISONED BRAN MASH 



There is no garden pest more exasperating than 

 the cutworm. Somehow, we can stand it to have 

 the edge of a leaf chewed, but when the offender 

 cuts the whole plant off even with the ground, 

 leaving it there for our observation next morning, 

 we draw the line. 



Cutworms may be poisoned readily, if we give 

 them a prepared bran mash to feed on just before 

 we set out our plants. 



