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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Jantjaby, 1910 



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 We use it to make Genasco — 

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Itgivesyou the beauty and joy of the open every 

 month and helps solve your problems. " The 

 smell cf the soil is on its pages" — and the 

 smell of the flowers and the forest is there, too. 

 Its fields embraces: building, gardening, 

 sports, automobiles, nature study, live stock, 

 poultry and dogs. A year's subscription in- 

 cludes three double 50c numbers — The March 

 Gardening Manual, October Housebuilding 

 Number and The Christmas Annual. 



Doubleday, Page & Co., New York 



on the spot. If there are so many that this cannot 

 be done, brush as many as possible from the plants 

 into a pan containing water and kerosene, syringe 

 the foliage with whale-oil soap or kerosene emul- 

 sion, and then with clear water. 



The red spider — only one twentieth of an inch 

 long — is not so easily detected, especially as he 

 confines his ravages to the undersides of the leaves. 

 But his presence is soon made manifest by the leaves 

 upon which he is at work, which turn light green, 

 show minute yellow spots, turn yellow, and finally 

 fall off. The red spider is very tenacious of life, and 

 hard to get rid of when once firmly established. 



If you suspect the presence of the red spider 

 make the atmosphere at once as moist as possible, 

 and keep it so. Syringe the plants, freely and as 

 forcibly as possible with cold water. Evaporated 

 sulphur, or flower of sulphur, dusted upon the 

 plants will also help. If the plants are not too 

 large, a quick, simple, and effective remedy is to 

 dip the top quickly two or three times into hot 

 water of 140 to 165 degrees. Be careful to hold 

 the ball of the plant so that it will not slip out of the 

 pot. This treatment will not injure the plant, and 

 it is valuable against aphis and mealy bug, as well 

 as against the spider. 



Sometimes plants upon which no insects can 

 be found will look sickly and turn yellow, appar- 

 ently without cause. Often in these cases it is the 

 blue aphis that is at work, which will be found 

 by the score in clusters on the roots. Plants 

 which have been stunted, or kept too dry, are 

 especially liable to their attacks. 



Remove the plants from the pots, shake out the 

 roots, and wash them in soap-suds, or what is better, 

 a whale-oil soap solution, using one-quarter pound 

 of soap to two gallons of water. Then repot the 

 plants in fresh soil. If this cannot be done, apply 

 tobacco tea (made as above) to the roots freely for 

 four or five days. 



Insects 



Favorable 

 Conditions 



Aph is , 

 black. 



green and 



Aphis, blue. 



Thrips, i inch, 

 long, brown or 

 black; they eat 



Mealy bugs. 



Other scale in- 

 sects 



Red spider 



Rose-beetle . 

 White flies 



rodes) 



Slugs 



(Aley r 



An is. 



Angle worms.. 



Shade; poor 

 ventilation 

 thick foliage 



Stunted growth 

 lack of water 



Shaded places; 

 crowded 

 plants 



Corners; close, 

 dry air 



Hot, dry at- 

 mosphere 



Dark corners; 

 dampness; de- 

 caying wood . 



Dampness; 

 heavy soil.. . 



Remedies 



Tobacco — dust or tea; 

 kerosene emulsion; hot 

 water bath; insect pow- 

 der. 



Whale-oil soap solution; 

 repotting; tobacco tea 

 applied to roots. 



Kerosene emulsion; Paris 

 green — 1 teaspoon to 

 12 quarts water. 



Brush off; coal-oil; kero- 

 sene emulsion; hot 

 water. 



Moisture; sulphur; hot 

 water. 



Hand picking; wood ashes. 



Kerosene emulsion. 



Air-slacked lime; sweet- 

 ened bran and Paris 

 green. 



Insect powder; molasses 

 traps. 



Lime; lime-water; tobacco 

 tea; and tobacco dust 

 washed into soil. 



To make the kerosene emulsion, use 2 ounces of 

 soap (whale-oil is much better than the common), 

 1 quart of boiling water (over brisk fire), 2 quarts 

 of kerosene oil. Dissolve the soap in boiling water, 

 remove from fire, and add oil. Churn or beat until 

 of the consistency of cream. If correctly mixed, 

 the emulsion, on cooling, will adhere without 

 oiliness to glass. Use rain water, if possible; if 

 not, add a little baking soda to the water. 



For scale insects, dilute with 10 parts of water; 

 for aphis and soft insects, with 15 or 20 parts water. 

 In using kerosene emulsion, apply in fine spray. 

 Remember it must come in contact with the insect 

 to be effective. 



New York. F. F. R. 



A Correction 



OUR attention has been called to one of the 

 captions appearing on page 179 in the No- 

 vember magazine. It is not the empress tree there 

 pictured but the shining bamboo, the correct cap- 

 tion for which appears under the photograph of 

 gunnera on page 181. 



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