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However, so much has been learned by careful experi- 

 menting, about the cure and prevention of these ills that 

 almost anyone may make a success of his garden or fruit 

 plantation if he will give the matter of plant medicines 

 or spraying a little attention and trial. 



THE FIEST STEP. 



In attempting to prescribe a remedy for a sick plant, 

 it is necessary to follow the method of any physician and 

 first be sure just what the disease or insect is that has 

 made its appearance or which it is expected will come 

 along to feed upon its fruit or leaves. Now the descrip- 

 tions in Lesson 9 of a few plant ailments were not intend- 

 ed to be complete but were probably clear enough to 

 enable you to recognize a large number of them if you 

 were to make the attempt. I am sure that you will find 

 a study of plant diseases and remedies very interesting if 

 you go out into the orchard and garden and try to make 

 friends with the plants there. I hope it may be possible 

 for you to add to your library Mr. E. G. Lodeman's 

 book, ''The Spraying of Plants''. This book should be 

 in the home of every grower of horticultural plants if he 

 wishes to successfully rout the enemies which will surely 

 attack them some season or other. 



SELECTING THE EEMEDY. 



After carefully examining his patient, the physician 

 goes over mentally those drugs which his medical train- 

 ing leads him to select as best suited to check the prog- 

 ress of the disease or make its effect less severe. The 

 fruit grower needs to follow this same plan, but he will 

 find few difficulties in the path if he keeps in touch with 

 the work of the various experiment stations which are 

 constantly testing materials to determine the most eflPect- 

 ive check upon certain diseases. Again, experience 



