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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1907 



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Slug on Roses, 



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Lice on Fowls, 

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Insecticides for June Use 



THE month of June is a busy one for the 

 amateur gardener who means to get 

 the better of the insect host. These pests 

 make their first big and insistent attack at 

 this time, and unless they are rounded up 

 sharply, all the care given to the early raising 

 of the plants will be labor lost. 



Every gardener should have ready a supply 

 of Paris green or arsenate of lead. These 

 two poisons, or one of them, will be practically 

 sufficient to attack all the insects that chew 

 the leaves or flowers. Whale oil soap or 

 kerosene emulsion is to be used for green 

 fly, and all other lice. The oyster shell 

 bark louse takes its travels abroad during 

 June and all fruit and ornamental trees 

 where it is present should be sprayed with 

 one of these substances. White scale on 

 roses, the pear leaf mite, and the pea louse 

 must be looked for daily. 



Whale oil soap offers an easy means of 

 making an emulsion and costs about fifteen 

 cents a pound. A pound cake will make 

 about six gallons of solution. Kerosene 

 emulsion can be made by using a soap like 

 Ivory, and making a thick paste with warm 

 water and then mixing in thoroughly one 

 gallon of kerosene to ten or more gallons of 

 the soapy water. It is rather troublesome 

 to thoroughly emulsify kerosene, and very 

 much more convenient to buy one of the ready- 

 prepared emulsions, sold in the seed stores, 

 which can be diluted with water as required. 

 It costs about a dollar a gallon (65% oil); 

 and one gallon will make anywhere from 

 nine to twenty-five of emulsion for use. 



If the harlequin bug appears on melon 

 and squash vines, make an extra strong soap 

 mixture for him, using one and one-half 

 pounds to a gallon of water. 



The best poison for all chewing insects 

 is arsenic. You can be sure of killing the 

 worm if you can get him to eat a grain of 

 Paris green, but Paris green is not an easy 

 thing to apply, especially in water which is 

 much the most convenient vehicle for the 

 amateur. In fact, you can't dissolve it. A 

 much more practical substance is lead 

 arsenate; it sticks on the foliage longer, but 

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 This costs about twenty cents a pound, 

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 of flowers, the rose chafer. These arsenate 

 preparations will kill the rose chafer but 

 they must be used at double the normal 

 strength, and they must be used frequently 

 right on, or in, the flowers. 



Look out also for the currant worm, saw 

 fly, grape berry moth, earworm on corn, 

 potato bug, pear slug, plum curculio, and 

 tomato worm. All of these can be killed by 

 the arsenates. 



After the strawberry crop is gathered, 

 spray the bed for leaf blight, using Bordeaux 

 mixture. Most amateurs balk at the use of 

 Bordeaux mixture because it is decidedly 





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