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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1906 



Hardy Garden Flowers 



No. 5 



Nothing imparts such gaiety and joyous exuber- 

 ance to a garden as an abundance of Gaillardias. 

 Their honest open faces greet you every day from 

 August to October. How they revel in the sun- 

 shine! What tumbling billowy masses of red and 

 yellow ! They are the largest flowered hardy peren- 

 nial members of the "composite" family during the 

 month of August, and even when the big sunflowers 

 appear in September the Gaillardias are most 

 welcome because of their dwarfer and more compact 

 habit, their warm red colors and their distinctive 

 shape. A garden without gaillardias would be like a 

 home without the merry voices of happy children. 



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It is not too late even now to plant a hardy 

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 until late in the autumn — flowers of every size and 

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keeping the plants of the late crop well 

 poisoned. 



As the vines get larger, a leaf or a tip is 

 now and then found wilted, due to the work 

 of the common Squash Bug, which in New 

 England is called the "Mohawk." This 

 well-known, large brown bug is one of the 

 most common enemies of the cucurbits, and, 

 when numerous, often one of the most 

 difficult to handle. Its eggs are laid in 

 small bunches, each egg separate from the 

 others, and of a glistening golden brown 

 color. They are easily found on the under 

 sides of the leaves, which should be examined 

 for them. Hand-picking seems the most 

 satisfactory means of handling this pest, and 

 where abundant the vines must be gone over 

 frequently. 



Shingles or small boards, laid lightly on the 

 surface of the soil, furnish a warm cover under 

 which the bugs pass the night, and from 

 which they can readily be gathered early in 

 the morning. Early planted squashes are 

 also of use as a trap crop, planted alternately 

 or here and there among the rows of melons 

 and cucumbers. 



When the vines are a foot or so long, a hill 

 here and there is found covered with little 

 green aphides. They must be attacked at 

 once, for, if left alone, they will soon be so 

 numerous as to be beyond control. 



THE EVER PRESENT APHID 



When you see curled leaves, examine the 

 hill for aphides. Spray with weak kerosene 

 emulsion — one made according to the for- 

 mula in the March number of The Garden 

 Magazine, page 65, and diluted twelve 

 times, will answer — whale-oil soap at the rate 

 of one pound to six or seven gallons of water 

 or tobacco water. 



Do not use too strong a spray, for the vines 

 are easily injured. Turn the vines over, so 

 that all the under surface of the leaf is 

 thoroughly sprayed, as only those aphides 

 are killed which are hit by the spray, and a 

 few escaping will soon restock the patch. 

 When the aphides become abundant on 

 larger vines, with fruit nearly ripe, it is a 

 difficult matter to control them, and often the 

 crop is sacrificed to them as a result of early 

 neglect. 



Fumigation with tobacco smoke is the 

 most successful method. First bunch up the 

 vine as much as possible without breaking, 

 then place over it a cover under which the 

 smoke is generated. This cover should be a 

 light frame covered with canvas soaked in lin- 

 seed oil. The edges form a flap, extending 

 out for six or eight inches on all sides, over 

 which the earth may be hoed up, to prevent 

 the escape of the fumes. The commercial 

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 soaked in a tobacco extract) is the easiest 

 fumigant to use. The amount and length 

 of time of fumigation will vary according 

 to the size of the cover, but can readily be 

 determined by a few trials. 



In a small garden one of these covers and 

 a supply of the prepared tobacco paper will 

 enable one to handle the melon aphides and 

 many similar pests of other plants. 



E. Dwight Sanderson. 

 Entomologist, New Hampshire Experiment 

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