GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
tables. The saw-flies with their offspring, and cer- 
tain kinds of ants (especially the ‘‘soldier ants’’) 
are as troublesome as the caterpillars, while the 
next family group, the grasshoppers, locusts, katy- 
dids and crickets are all great feeders,—the grass- 
hoppers and locusts often becoming an actual 
plague and destroying whole crops. To get rid of 
the caterpillars and beetles various means are em- 
ployed, such as spraying with Paris green, Bor- 
deaux mixture, kerosene emulsion, or even gtrong 
suds made with whale-oil soap; and Paris green is 
also applied dry. A pretty good poison is bran- 
and-arsenic mixture, but the different liquids and 
powders make a story by themselves, and require 
great care in using; so you better consult some suc- 
cessful gardener-friend about the best one (and 
the way to use it,) for your particular foe. 
Of the sucking insects—those that draw out 
the juice or sap of the plant,—the aphides or 
‘‘plant lice’’ do inestimable damage to all kinds of 
plants and flowers, while the chinch bug and garden 
tree-hopper seem to prefer to attack vegetables. 
The most familiar aphides are green, and they 
have tiny, soft, pear-shaped bodies, with long legs 
and ‘‘feelers.”’? They usually live on the under side 
of the leaves and along the stems, and one good way 
to get rid of them is to spray with kerosene emul- 
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