PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK— INSECTICIDES. 



Ant Destroyer. A non-poisonous 



powder which will destroy or drive away 

 black ants from lawns, trees, plants, houses 

 or other affected locality. Price, ^ lb. can 

 50c. or by mail, 60c. 



Carbolic Soap. For freeing animals 

 from insects and washing the bark of trees 

 and plants for scale, lice, etc. Price, 1 lb. 

 cake isc or by majil, 300. 



Dissolve 2 oz. to a gallon of water and 

 apply with brush., sponge or spray. 



Carbolized Soap For peach, apple 

 and other tree borers, also for washing trees 

 to prevent attacks of animals or vermin, i 

 gallon can, $100 (makes 12 gallons paint.) 



Cole's Liquid Insecticide. For 



mealy bug, red spider, scale and aphis; 

 we use it extensively in our greenhouses; it 

 needs no further preparation and is one of 

 the most convenient and effectual for ladies 

 to use on house plants. Price, }4 pint tin, 

 50c.; by mail, 65c. 

 Apply, undiluted, with a Vaporizer. 



FirTreeOil. It frees plants of nearly all 

 insects to which they are 'ubject, and for 

 the following it has no superior : Mealy bug 

 Scale, Red Spider, Aphis, (black and green,) 

 Thnp, Blight, Wormsand Slugs, and isalso 

 a valuable remedy for animal parasites and 

 insects. Price, ii pint tin, 40c.: pint, 75c.; 

 qt., $1.40; K gal-, $2.50; gal., $4.25; if by 

 mail, add 2^c. per pint. 



Dilute Yz pint to about 7o gallons of soft 

 or rain water, {for tender plants or young 

 growth make 'weaker.) Spray on with 

 vaporizer, syringe or belloivs. 



Hellebore, Powdered White. 



For the destruction of slugs, worms, cater- 

 pillars, etc. Less poisonous than Paris 

 Green and London Purple and safer to use 

 when fruits or vegetables are nearly ripe. 

 Price, 25c. per lb.; or by mail 40c. 



Dry Application.— .Oarf^^K dry, or mix 

 I lb. with 4 lbs. of powdered lime or four, 

 dust on with powder duster or bellows 

 or gun. 



In Solution. — Dissolve i oz. to 3 gallons 

 of water, apply with syringe, putnp or 

 vaporizer. 



Kerosene Emulsion. For plant lice 



of any kind, cabbage worm, scale insects on 

 apple, pear, orange, lemon and other trees. 

 (i gallon makes 15 gallons -wash.) 



One quart can, 30c.; i gallon can, 50c.; 

 5 gallon tin bucket, I1.7S ; 50 gallon barrel, 

 $10.00. 



London Purple. Very poisonous and 

 equally as efficacious as Paris Green and 

 more soluble in water. Price 25c. lb. If 

 by mail, add 150. per lb. for postage. 

 Use in the same as Paris Green. 



Paris Green. A poisonous, insoluble 

 powder, indispensable on the farm or garden 

 — for preventing the ravages of potato bugs, 

 codUn moth, worms, caterpilars, slugs and 

 bugs. Price, 25c. per lb. If by maU, add 

 15c. per lb. for postage. 



Dry Application. — Mix with planter, 

 flour or other dilutant — i part to lOO — 

 apply -with duster, bellows or gU7t. 



In Solution.— il/zjr i lb. to 100 or 300 

 gallons of water. Apply with putnp, 

 syringe or vaporizer. 



Bait. — For cut worms, mix i oz, with 

 8 ozs. of syrup: mix thoroughly with 

 fresh chopped grass or leaves. 



Persian Powder or Buhach. 

 Henderson's Superior Grade. 



Cheap adzilterated grades are luorthless, 

 A most effective «o«-poisonous inpalpable 

 powder — so fine that it penetrates the inner- 

 most crevices — for worms, flies, aphis and 

 almost all kinds of insects — ^it is very effec- 

 tual — suffocating them by filling up the 

 breathing pores. /VzV:^, 40c. per lb. If by 

 mail, add 15c. fca: postage. 



Dry. — Blow on ivith a bello-ws or gun. 



Solution. — Dissolve i oz. to 3 gallons 

 of luater ; apply ivith syringe or pump. 



Quassaine. This is a Concentrated 

 Fluid Extract Quassia, held in suspension 

 by Whale Oil Soap. A cheap and reli- 

 able non-poisonous insecticide for hop lice, 

 aphis and all scale insects; nothing better 

 for rose bushes and house plants. Quart 

 cans, (50 gallons wash,) $1.00 per can; i 

 gallon cans, $1.30 per can; 2 gallon cans 

 $2.50 per can. 



Slug shot. A non-poisonous powder- 

 it requires no further mixing or prepar- 

 ation — not injurious or dangerous to 

 animais, the person applying it or fruits and 

 vegetables treated. Very effectual in 

 destroying potato bugs and beetles, green 

 and black fly, slugs, worms, caterpillars, 

 etc, (By express or freight only.) Price, 

 per barrel of 235 lbs. net, $8.00; 100 lbs., 

 $4.00 ; in 10 lb._ packages, each 450; 5 lb. 

 packages, 25c; in tin cannister with perfo- 

 rated top for applying 25c. each; by mail 35c. 

 Apply ivith duster, belloivs or gun. 10 

 to 40 lbs. is sufficient for an acre. 



Thrtp Juice. A concentrated extract 

 arseniated, destructive for mealy bug, scale 

 thrips, bark lice, codUn moth, canker worm 

 elm leaf worm, beetles, caterpillars, thrips, 

 etc. Price, !4 pint can, 30c.; i pint 30c.; i 

 qt., 75c.; I gal., $2.00; 3 gal. keg, $7.00. 



Mix % pint to 23 gallons of water and 

 spray on ivith syringe, vaporizer or 

 pump. 

 Tobacco Dust. For green and black 

 aphis, fleas, beetles, etc. Splendid fertilizer 

 and preventative for insects in the ground 

 and around root. Price, loc. per lb.; 3 lb., 

 35c.; 10 lbs., 65c.; $3.00 per barrel; per ton, 

 $25.00; if by mail add IjC, per lb. for 

 postage. 



For insects on plants, apply with powder 

 duster or bellows. 



For worms or grubs in the soil, apply 

 liberally to the surface and rake in, or 

 strew in the drills before planting. 



Tobacco Extract, Concen- 

 trated. A powerful extract of tobacco 

 combined with sulphur for destroying plant 

 lice, red spider, and insects of all kinds. 

 Price, % pt., 30c.; pt., 50c.; qt., 75c.; gal., 

 $2.00. 



Dilute I part to 10 or more of water and 

 apply with syringe, vaporizer or pump. 



For insects at the root, dilute as above, 

 and apply with watering-pot sufficient to 

 reach the roots. 



Tobacco Stems. Indispensable for 

 fumigating greenhouses and conservatories 

 — for the destruction of green and black 

 aphis and other insects. Price, 50 lb. bale, 

 $1.00; 100 lbs.. $1.75; per ton, $20.00. 



Tobacco Soap. Effective for green 



and black aphis, turnip fleas, slugs, bark 



lice, ere. /"rz'ci?, 35c. perlb.; orbymailsoc. 



Dissolve 2 oz. in a gallon of water and 



apply with pujnp, syringe or vaporizer. 



Whale Oil Soap. Makes an excellent 

 wash for trees and plants where insects and 

 eggs effect the' bark, and for smearing on 

 the trunks of trees to prevent worms from 

 crawling up. Price, 15c. per lb.; 2 lbs., 25c.; 

 5 lbs., 50c.; 23 lb. and over, at 8c. per lb,; 

 if by mail, add i^c. per lb. for postage. ' 



For insects on plajzts, dissolve % Ib.to a 

 gallon of water, apply ivith syringe or 

 spraying pump . 



For bark insects, etc., dilute with water 

 to consistency of thick paint, and apply 

 with brush. 



REMEDIES FOR FUNGUS, SUCH AS MILDEW, RUST, BLACK ROT, ETC. 



Copperdine. (Ammoniacal solution 

 of Carbonate of Copper concentrated.) A 

 famous remedy for fungoid diseases of plants 

 particularly for grapes, curing downy and 

 powdery mildew, black rot, scab, etc. 

 Price, 1 quart can, 50c.; i gallon can, $1.50; 

 10 gallon carboy, ® $1.35 gallon ; 30 gallon 

 barrel, @ $1.25 gallon. By express or 

 freight only. 



Dilute I pint to lO or 12 gallons of water, 

 apply with Knapsack sprayer or Bellows 

 vaporizer. 



Sulphur, Flowers of. For the pre- 

 vention and destruction of mildew on roses 

 and other plants. Price, loc. per lb.; ic 

 lb., 6oc.- 25 lb. and over, at 3c. per lb.; ij 

 by mail add 15c. per lb. for postage. 

 Apply with bellows or gun^ 



Bordeaux Mixture. Avaluableand 

 indispensable fungicide for grape growers — 

 thereby insuring larger crops and finer 

 grapes, and preventing failure. A sure cure 

 and preventative for black rot, mildew and 

 rust, also of great value for other plants 

 suffering with kindred diseases. Price, 20 

 lb. pkg, $1.00. By express or freight only. 

 Dissolve 10 lbs. to 25 gallons of water, 

 and apply with Knapsack sprayer or 

 vaporizer. 



Grape Dust, (Hammond's). A 



non-poisonous powder for the remedy and 

 control of mildew and rot on grapes, goose- 

 berries, roses, etc. Price, 3 lb. pkg, 35c.; 

 100 lb. keg, $5.00. By express or freight 

 only. 

 Apply with bellows or powder gun. 



Sulpho-Steatite Powder. . For 



lettuce mildew, powdery and downy mildew 

 of the grape, rose mildew and other fungus 

 diseases affecting plants under glass. Used 

 as a dust. 3 lb. boxes, 60c. ; 25 lb. boxes $2.00. 



Guicide Powder. A combined Fun- 

 gicide and Iiisecticide. Especially recom- 

 mended for potato blight, potato rot, mildew, 

 rust, grapevine flea beetle, potato bugs, 

 slugs, codling moths, curculio, strawberry 

 crown borers, etc. This article contains both 

 insecticide and fungicide ingredients, taking 

 the place of Paris green and London purple, 

 and saving the cost of one application where 

 fungicide treatment is needed as well. It 

 can be used either as a powder or in solu 

 tion. 2 lbs. to a barrel of water. Price, 3 

 lb. pkg., 50c.; 23 lb. box, $1.75. 



