102 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE Marcu, 1916 
Dreer’s Dahlias 
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even knows that the plant are up. This 
ubiquitous insect seems to just sit around wait- 
ing for the first little plant to poke its head 
through the ground. He is rather easily gotten 
rid of, happily, but the striped beetle, which 
eats very rapidly on young and tender vines, 
may need several doses of the poison before he 
gives up. The currant worm is another pest 
that frequently does much damage before being 
discovered. He begins working at the base of 
the plants, where he is hidden by the foliage 
and may escape notice until he has eaten his 
way into sight, unless the garden maker is vigi- 
lant. And one advantage of the tin hand 
duster is the fact that the poison can be applied 
to any part of the plant, the centre of growth 
and the under part of the leaves as well as the 
outside and the top. 
The cabbage worm and the cabbage looper are 
particularly aggravating pests and not easily 
combatted. One or two applications of a poison 
spray may be used, but cher the plants begin 
to head it is better to use tobacco dust. Some 
vegetable growers like to make up a mixture of 
A home-made “duster” made from an old coffee can 
that has had holes punched in the bottom 
plaster, tobacco dust and paris green, a tea- 
spoonful of the poison to two quarts each of 
B aster and tobacco dust. This is an excellent 
ust spray for young cabbages, squashes and 
cucumbers, being applied when the leaves are 
wet. Cabbage maggots, which work on the 
root, sometimes three or four in company, are 
best subdued by tobacco dust sifted on the 
ground around the plants when they are set 
out and once a week for three weeks thereafter. 
Tobacco dust is also very useful in protecting 
peas. earrots and lettuce from the green fly, 
eing sprayed or sifted on the plants. 
In point of fact, this simple remedy has a 
much wider range than most people realize and 
professional gardeners rely on it to a large 
extent. It may be used with considerable suc- 
cess in getting rid of plant lice, which are not 
affected at all by the poison sprays. It may 
be scattered: on the ground around Aster plants 
to protect them from the beetle. It will drive 
ants from the Peony plants, and more than 
that, it will drive them from the lawn, thus 
providing the easiest way known to keep the 
grass plots free from ant holes. It is effective 
in fighting the red spider in the open garden, ~ 
and it will even secure immunity from rose 
bugs if used when the bugs are small and soft. 
Cut worms, which abound in many gardens 
and against the underhand work of which most 
amateurs feel helpless, are easil) dispere of by 
means of a poisoned bait made of the same 
preparation as is used for dusting the plants, 
which is mixed with bran and molasses and 
made into little balls. It must be remembered, 
though, that these poison balls would not agree 
with the poultry. No kind of poison or other 
application will give protection from the ill- 
smelling squash bug. ‘The best remedy is hand 
picking, although many bugs may be trapped 
