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HOW TO DESTROY IXSECTS. 



The Striped Hug, 



An Illinois gardener^ after nsiug ground or calcined 

 plaster as a remedy for striped bugs, at last improved 

 upon it. 



I used Paris green and calcined plaster^ in the 

 proportion of one of the former to fifteen of the latter, 

 as a destroyer of the potato-bug, and also I tried it on 

 squash aud melon and cucumber vines^ with good suc- 

 cess. 



The mixture was dusted on from a common dredg- 

 ing-box, and has proved equally effectual against the 

 Colorado potato-beetle and the striped bug. 



^^On squashes of the tenderest variety of foliage, like 

 the Hul)bard, lor instance, and on the hardier, like 

 Cmylin and the Avinter crookneck. this mixture may be 

 put on while the ])lant is wet or dry, and does not in- 

 jure them ; and so of musk-mehnis and cucumbers. But 

 on water-melons the mixture must be used with care." 



Cucumher-hug. 



^lix hellebore and flour together and scatter over the 

 vine and insects. 



Colorado Potato-beetle. 



Paris green is sufficient. Mix with very fine ashes 

 in the proportion of twenty to one. Take a tomato- 

 can, with holes in the bottom like a grater and a e-over 

 on the top, attach to a long pole, and dust the plants 

 with the powder. A few hours will be sufficient to go 



