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to two feet square and about eight high, covered with 

 glass, protecting cloth, mosquito netting or mosquito 

 wire. The first two coverings have, of course, the 

 additional advantage of retaining heat and protect- 

 ing from cold, making it possible by their use to plant 

 earlier than is otherwise safe. They are used exten- 

 sively in getting an extra early and safe start with 

 cucumbers, melons and the other vine vegetables. 



Simpler devices for protecting newly-set plants, 

 such as tomatoes or cabbage, from the cut- worm, are 

 stiff, tin, cardboard or tar paper collars, which are 

 made several inches high and large enough to be 

 put around the stem and penetrate an inch or so into 

 the soil. 



For applying poison powders, such as dry Paris 

 green, hellebore and tobacco dust, the home gardener 

 should supply himself with a powder gun, two types 

 of which are illustrated facing p. 32. If one must 

 be restricted to a single implement, however, it will 

 be best to get one of the hand-power, compressed- 

 air sprayers — either a knapsack pump or a com- 

 pressed-air sprayer — types of which are illustrated. 

 These are used for applying wet sprays, and should 

 be supplied with one of the several forms of mist- 

 making nozzles, the non-cloggable automatic type 

 being the best. For more extensive work a barrel 

 pump, mounted on wheels, will be desrable, but one 

 of the above will do a great deal of work in little 



