July, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS xxi 
grown. ‘The remedy is to find the place where 
the worm entered the stalk of the plant and to 
run a small wire up the stalk until the worm 
is met and destroyed. If the plant is not in- 
jured too greatly this and the drawing of the 
earth up about the stalk until the first joint 
above the wound is covered, and packing it 
closely there, and keeping it constantly moist 
until roots have started from the covered 
joint—as will be quickly done in the case of 
dahlias, cosmos and similar plants—when the 
plant will, usually, grow on as though nothing 
had happened. 
The trouble is more serious when it attacks 
the columbines or aquilegias, as the plant is 
virtually killed before the trouble is suspected. 
If the plants appear diseased and the tops are 
taken hold of and pulled lightly, they will part 
from the roots, showing a cavity below the 
crown which will be found to be occupied by 
a small pink worm about a half inch in length. 
Here the preventative soaking of the soil with 
the Paris-green soultion alone is reliable—that 
and stirring and examining the soil occasion- 
ally for traces of the pest. 
But it is in the rose garden that the most 
serious trouble brews, as the enemies of the 
rose are so many in numbers and so gregarious 
in habit and come altogether, as it were. The 
green aphis is one of the most persistent and 
troublesome, making its appearance soon after 
the new growth starts in the spring and quickly 
covering the young shoots with a moss-like ac- 
cumulation of tiny green insects. “The reme- 
dies are several, and consist of the various 
preparations of tobacco in solutions used as a 
spray, in powder used as a dust, and as a fumi- 
gator used in the form of damp stems laid on 
live coals and held under the plants until the 
insects are overcome by the fumes. This, while 
the most effective form of application, is incon- 
venient in the open air owing to the difficulty 
of confining the smoke. 
A simple way of doing this, however, is to 
take a large corn popper—one with a good long 
handle—and place a few good coals therein 
and fill with damp tobacco stems and hold 
under the affected plants. If a sheet or other 
covering can be placed over them to confine the 
smoke the results will be far more certain. 
Usually where there is a water system supply- 
ing considerable pressure these pests can be sub- 
dued by frequent spraying. 
The small, green caterpillar which lies along 
the under side of the leaves is more difficult to 
deal with, but may be destroyed by the use of 
kerosene emulsion sprayed upon the under side 
of the leaves. Care, however, must be exer- 
cised in the use of kerosene, as it is very apt 
to burn the foliage if used too strong. An 
emulsion made from one coffee cupful of 
kerosene, a third of a bar of soap, and a gallon 
of hot water, thoroughly agitated and reduced 
to four gallons or more, will be strong enough, 
and it will be well to test this on a single 
branch before spraying the entire plant or 
plants. 
Kerosene emulsion may be successfully used 
on all soft-bodied insects, such as caterpillars, 
aphides, slugs and the like. Paris green for all 
eating insects, as caterpillars, beetles—as po- 
tato bugs, squash bugs and rose-chafers or bugs, 
but is useless for insects which suck the juices 
from the plants, as the various aphides, black, 
green or gray. 
There is another small worm very destruc- 
tive on the roses and spireas. This little fellow 
draws the tips of the leaves at the end of a 
twig—usually about a bud, about him, and, 
thus protected, proceeds to fill up on the tender 
tissues of the plant. As he is easily detected, 
the remedy here is to take him, encased in his 
green sheath, gently between the thumb and 
finger and—crush him. 
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