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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



November, 1915 



Mr. Conde Nast 



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Vogue and Canity Fair 



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 in its special field as Vogue and 

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COLLECTED VERSE 

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Meat Skewers as Vine Supports 



HAVE you ever been puzzled by the problem of 

 satisfactorily and scenically mooring, at the 

 bottom, strings used for climbing plants like 

 nasturtiums and sweet peas? 



At one end of my vegetable garden I wanted a row 

 of sweet peas and nasturtiums trained around brush 

 poles. I cut the poles leaving stubs of branches, but 

 I found that in order to make much of a show I had 

 to have something else for the plants to climb on. 

 So I fastened strong strings at the top of the pole. 

 At the bottom I moored the strings to stakes, pain- 

 fully whittled out and with rings cut near the top to 

 hold the strings. 



But the effect was bad. The stakes showed, and 

 often the strings slipped off and flapped in the 

 breezes, I wanted something that would hold the 

 strings, and not show. 



While I was searching, Friend Wife went to a 

 drawer and brought out a metal meat skewer, six 

 inches long, sharp at one end and with a ring at the 

 other. " How would this do? " she asked tentatively. 



"Just the thing!" I exclaimed — and it was. By 

 pushing the skewer into the ground at an obtuse 

 angle from the pole, I found it held beautifully, and, 

 as it was practically buried, nothing showed. The 

 string seemed to run into the ground and take hold 

 there mysteriously. Later on strings, poles and all 

 were covered by growth. 



Where the soil is very light, as when the bed or 

 trench is newly made, and the pins cannot be 

 fastened in sod, get some wire, three-sixteenths of an 

 inch thick; cut it in 12-inch lengths, twist a small 

 ring in one end and roughly sharpen the other end 

 with a file or emery wheel, and then straighten the 

 completed pin. 



Duluth, Minn. Stillman H. Bingham. 



Killing Red Spider on Fruit Trees 



THE red spider has become more and more of a 

 pest on fruit trees, during the past three 

 summers in western Pennsylvania. How to kill it on 

 plum trees was the problem put up to me recently. 



A standard remedy has been to spray with lime- 

 sulphur for the San Jose scale as the buds are swelling 

 in the spring. This has been done but it failed to 

 hold the red spider in check. Taking the work of 

 the National Department of Agriculture on "Pre- 

 venting the Red Spider on Cotton in the South and 

 on Hops in California," I have found by a little ex- 

 perimental work that a summer spray of flour paste 

 would give the desired results. A kettle full of the 

 paste was made by using a cheap grade of flour — Red 

 Dog, which is used as hog feed. A pound to a 

 gallon of water was the proportion, and by the aid of 

 a measuring stick in the kettle enough water was 

 added from time to time to keep the amount con- 

 stant. This paste will keep several days without 

 souring. 



Four gallons of this paste was diluted with 45 

 gallons of water, and the mixture sprayed over the 

 foliage of the trees, making it a point to cover both 

 surfaces of the leaves, for on the plum trees it was 

 noticed that the red spider was active on both the 

 upper and lower sides of the leaves. It cost seven 

 and a fraction cents a barrel to make this material 

 and it killed the spider completely. Half an hour 

 after spraying, the foliage was carefully examined 

 with a hand lens and not a live red spider could be 

 found, although there were plenty of dead ones. 



Pennsylvania. Harold Clarke. 



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