306 THE “GA RD EON) ANG Ge Aa Nee June, 1916 
The Bugs Are There — But You Don’t Know It 
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seeds. If your garden is small dust on “Corona Dry” worms and plant diseases. 
through a cheese-cloth bag or small bellows. For 
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In the South —Watch Out For 
Bugs 
E VIGILANT in fighting diseases and in- 
sects on vegetables, flowers and _ trees. 
Bordeaux mixture is a good preventive for 
most diseases and, with an addition of arsenate 
of lead, will eradicate the insects. Bordeaux 
mixture is made by Goa four pounds of 
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lime in water and four pounds of copper sul- 
phate separately, then stirring them together 
with enough water to make fifty gallons; ten 
more gallons of water is added for summer 
strength and for this amount one and a half 
pounds of arsenate of lead is effectual in spray- 
ing for beetles and worms. Begin sprayin: 
vegetables just as they apes above groun 
and keep it up every ten days throughout the 
growing season. This is especially necessary — 
with potatoes and cabbages and saves a world ~ 
of trouble, as the terrapin bug and worms in- 
crease rapidly and are difficult to combat. After 
the cabbages attain a larger growth, a dusting 
with slug shot early in the morning when the 
dew is on the plant so that it will stick is most 
efficacious. Slug shot is not poisonous. 
In sowing melon seed sow with them in the 
same hill a little radish seed, as beetles prefer 
these to the melons. If this was forgotten in 
May, spray with bordeaux and arsenate of lead 
constantly. Dust powdered hellebore on the 
currant bushes for the currant worm. 
The black rot on grapes can only be eradi- 
cated by spraying with bordeaux until the mid- 
dle of July every ten days. Red ants and black 
and green aphis are troublesome in the flower 
garden. A dusting with fine tobacco is effectual 
or they can be sprayed with a liquid made with 
steeping tobacco-stems or leaves in hot water 
and diluted with cold water. Peonies and 
Chrysanthemums are usually annoyed by these 
pests. A ring of lime or coal ashes about the 
base of the plants is very helpful. Roses have 
the rose chafer to contend with and Clematis 
and Asters the black beetle. Before the flowers ~ 
come, a fortnightly spraying with bordeaux and 
arsenate of lead will kill the larvae of these 
beetles; but if this has been neglected later on 
slug shot is most helpful, though it is not pre- 
possessing when scattered over the plants. 
In planting out the Asters, plant some pep- 
per plants among them; this is a catch trap 
for the beetles, and they can be picked off and 
destroyed. Picking off the rose chafers when 
they first appear and dropping them in a pail 
of kerosene is another way, but rather a trou: 
blesome one. Always, of course, prevention is 
better than cure, and early in the season spray- 
ing with bordeaux prevents much trouble Tate 
on. This is also a cure for curly leaf on Holly- 
hocks and is most necessary in the orchards 
early in the season. 
Look out for the peach borer at the base of 
the trees this month and again later in the fall; 
cut them out with a sharp knife or strong wire. 
If plants are kept in healthy condition by be- 
ing properly nourished and cultivated they are 
less subject to insects and diseases. 
Use constantly nitrate of soda, scattered be- 
tween the rows of cabbage plants and beans; 
work around the rhubarb some well rotted 
manure and cultivate the corn constantly, mix- 
ing in the soil a little bone meal. Stirring the 
soil constantly will conserve the moisture which 
is so essential during the dry season. 
Cease cutting asparagus early in June; scat- 
ter coarse salt over the bed now as it keeps 
down weeds and is otherwise beneficial to as- 
paragus. Winter potatoes are planted the last 
of this month. Successional planting of corn, 
beets, string beans and kohlrabi can be made 
until September. Carrots and salsify for win- 
ter use are sown now. Set out sweet potato 
plants, celery plants, curly endive, witloof 
chicory, eggplants and Pepe plants, late to- 
mato plants from the coldframes. Sow Lucul- 
lus chard and the Davis Perfect cucumbers for 
pickles. 
All weak stems of Dahlias should be cut out 
and one strong one left. Use no fertilizers 
until the buds appear and then water con- 
stantly with manure water every ten days; this 
makes much finer flowers. . 
Summer pruning of vineyard and orchard is 
most essential. on’t allow too much fruit 
on any one limb; pull off a few here and there 
when they are small and green so that those 
that are left will be more perfect. 
Virginia. . M. PATTERSON. 
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