_ peat R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., BOSTON 
INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES. 
Ant Destroyer. A specially prepared powder which will destroy or 
drive away Black Ants from lawns, trees, plants, houses, or other infested 
localities. Price, 4-lb. can, .50; by mail, .60. 
Arsenate of Lead. For spraying trees. A remedy for Elm Leaf Beetle, 
Gipsy Moth, Brown Tail Moth, ete Price, 1-lb. tin can, .20; 5-Ib. pail, 
95; 10-lb. pail, $1.80; 20-lb. pail, $3.60; 5o-lb. pail, $8.50; 100-lb. 
keg, $16.00. 
Bordeaux Mixture, Concentrated. A valuable and indispensable 
fungicide for grape growers, ensuring larger crops and finer grades and 
preventing failure. Successful against black rot, mildew, and rust. Being 
in liquid form, it is very convenient to handle. One gallon will make 50 
gallons of spraying liquid by the addition of 49 gallons of water. Price, 
I-gal. patent cans, $1.00; I-qt. cans, .4o0. 
Dry Bordeaux Mixture. Ready for use by simply adding water. Lb. 
box makes 5 gallons spray, .30; 5-Ib. box makes 25 gallons spray, .75 ; 
10-lb. box makes 50 gallons spray, $1.25; 30-lb. box makes 125 gallons 
spray, $3.00; 300-lb. barrel makes 1,500 gallons spray, $27.00. 
Bowker’s Disparene. A remedy for elm-beetie, potato-beetle, cater- 
pillars, and all leaf-eating insects. 2-lb. can, .40; 5-Ib. can, .go; 10-lb. 
can, $1.70; 100-lb. keg, $15.00. 
Bug Death. This non-poisonous powder can be applied dry just as it 
comes from the package, or it may be mixed with water and sprayed on 
vines with any of the sprayers on the market, 121% lbs. to 80 gallons water 
mixed thoroughly. It is death to the potato, squash, and cucumber bugs, 
currant and tomato worms, and many other planit-eating pests. Price, 1-Ib. 
package, .15; 3-lb. package, .35; 5-lb. package, .50; 12%-lb. package, 
$t.00; 100-lb. package, $7.50. Dickey Shaker, .25. 
Copper Solution Ammoniated. A concentrated liquid fungicide, 
prepared ready for immediate use on trees, vines, or vegetables affected 
with rot, blight, or scab. The various plant diseases to which it is 
applicable are: Rot of the grape, mildew of the grape, anthracnoze 
of the grape, pear scab and leaf blight, apple scab, gooseberry mildew, 
cranberry scald, potato blight, tomato blight, melon blight, quince blight, 
black spot on the rose, mignonette disease, carnation rust. Directions: 
I quart of solution to 25 gallons of water. Per quart, $1.00. 
Fir Tree Oil. Soluble. For destroying all insects that infest plants 
and animals, such as mealy bug, scale, red spider, green fly, thrip, lice, 
fleas, etc. Directions with each package. Price, 1g pint, .50; pint, .75; 
quart, $1.50; half gallon, $2.75; gallon, $5.00 
Flowers of Sulphur. Prevents and cures mildew on roses, grape-vines, 
etc. Apply with gun or bellows. Price, 1 Ib., .10; 100 lbs., $5.00. 
Grape Dust, Hammond’s. A preparation for destroying mildew on 
grape vines. Can also be used on plants or trees affected with mold, 
mildew, or rust mites, either in greenhouses or the open air. To be 
thoroughly effectual, it must be applied frequently by dusting, as atoms of 
fungi are always spreading or floating. Apply at the first appearance of 
trouble. Dust on a warm, dry day. Use Grape Dust for Violets, Roses, 
etc., in the greenhouse. Fill the house with dust and let it settle over the 
plants, or put one pound to a pail of water and spray it finely over every- 
thing, plants, ground, benches, etc. Spores are likely to settle anywhere 
about, and prevention is the best remedy. Price, 5-lb. package, .35. 
Hellebore Powder, White. We furnish a pure, fresh, very effective 
powder. One of the best insecticides for rose slugs, currant worms, green 
fiy, and other insects. Price, 1-Ib. package, .30; 1-lb. package, .15. 
RUSTIC SUMMER HOUSES, PERGOLAS, ARBORS, ETC. 
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Hexagon Summer House. 
Kerosene Emulsion Concentrated. 
all sucking insects. 
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Kills the pea louse, scale and 
Ready for use by adding water, 25 to 50 parts water 
Quart,..40; gallon, $1.00; 5 gallons, $4.50. 
Seal Oil Soap. One of the best insecticides for general use on plants. 
It is especially effective on green and black flies, red spider, scale and rose 
thrip. Directions for use are printed on each package. Price, 1-lb. box, 
.30; 5-1b. box, $1.25; in tubs, 25 lbs. and upwards, .20 per lb. 
Slug Shot, Hammond’s. A light, composite, impalpably fine powder, 
easily distributed either: by Duster, Bellows, o7 27 water by Spraying. It 
is thoroughly reliable in killing Currant Worms, Potato Bugs, Cabbage 
Worms, Lice, Slugs, etc., and is also strongly impregnated with fungi- 
cides. Price, 5 lbs., .30; 10 lbs., 60. In kegs, 125 lbs. net, or barrels, 
235 to 250 lbs. each, at 414 ceitts per lb. 
Sulpho-Tobacco Soap. Quickly exterminates green fly, red spider, 
scale and other insect life on plants and flowers in and out of doors. 
Unsurpassed for rose bushes. For a cheap, effective, clean insecticide for 
amateur and professional growers this is unexcelled. 8-o0z. cake, sufficient 
for 4 gallons prepared solution, .20; mailed, postpaid, .28. 
Tobacco Extract. A powerful extract of tobacco combined with sulphur, 
Remarkably effective against plant lice, red spider, and insects of all kinds. 
Dilute one part to ten or more of water and apply with syringe or 
vaporizer, For insects at the root, prepare as above and apply with 
watering pot sufficient to reach the roots. Price, half pint, .30; pint, 
.50; quart, .75; gallon, $1.50; 5 gallons, $4.25. 
Tobacco Dust. A remedy for green fly. 
10-lb. package, .40; 100-lb,, $3.50. 
Whale Oil Soap. An excellent wash for trees and plants; kills insects 
and their eggs. Price, in boxes, with full directions for use, 1 lb., .20; 
2 Ibs., .353 5 lbs., .75; 10 lbs. $1.25; 50 lbs., $5.00. 
‘‘Imp’’ Soap Spray. The base is a soap containing vegetable poisons, 
particularly effective against red spider on fruits, the rhododendron fly, 
rose bug, and other insects. Quart, .50; gallon, $1.50; 5 gallons, $6.00; 
10 gallons, $10.00, 
Herbicide,’’ or Weed Exterminator. Perfectly odorless, One- 
single dressing done according to directions will keep gutters, paths, and 
roadways clear of weeds, poison ivy, grasses, mosses, dandelions, burdocks, 
etc., for two full years or more. It is the most effectual weed killer 
known, does the work at one-twentieth the cost of any other method, and 
is also far more convenient to use. It completely destroys all weeds 
wherever applied, and by its effect on the ground prevents the growth of 
fresh ones for two years afterwards, thus saving an immense amount of 
hoeing, rolling, and re-rolling. In 2-gallon kegs, sufficient to make 40 
gallons of liquid, $2.75; in 5-gallon kegs, sufficient to inake 100 gallons 
of liquid, $5.50; in r1o-gallon kegs, sufficient to make 200 gallons of 
liquid, $10.00. 
Electric Worm Eradicator. Perfectly odorless. For the instantaneous 
extermination of worms of every sort. The worms will immediately rise 
to the surface of the ground or flower-bed; or will fall off the trees, fruits, 
or flowers, and in a few minutes will die. It will be found exceedingly 
effective. It is highly concentrated, one gallon being sufficient to make 
120 gallons of fluid for use, by the addition of water. Full directions for 
use with each package. Shipped in kegs, $4.50 each, te make 120 
gallons. Also, .50 and $1.00 bottles. 
Price, 5-lb. package, .25; 
( Write for particulars. ) 
Pergola. 
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