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ffOW TO DESTROY I^-SI:CTS. 



Persian Insect Poivder. 



A small quantit}^ of this added to a solution of wliaJe- 

 oil soap and Jiellehore will destroy the green fly, and 

 applied with a syringe will keep all rose-hushes free 

 from insects. 



Another Method, 



Take two ounces of Persian Insecticide, dissolved in 

 one-fourth of a pint of spirits and diluted in ten gal- 

 lons of water. Two or three applications at intervals of 

 every two or three days will destroy all insects. 



CarhoJic Soap for Green Fly. 



An experiment with this in killing insects on house- 

 plants was made l)y an editor of a horticultural jour- 

 nal, with notes and results as follows : 



The (jreen flu is, as everybody knows, a great pest, 

 and one not readily destroyed, except by fumigating 

 witli tobacco, not always very «ngreeable. 



^' My first experiment with the carhoVic soap was a 

 decided success, operating upon two hundred roses just 

 in Idooni, and it was conducted as follows : Into a pail 

 of warm water I put a lump of soap the size of a small 

 hen's egg. The soap was cut up into small pieces, and 

 the water agitated until it was all dissolved, formiug a 

 warm suds. 



The water should not be too hot, but if not above 

 120^ or thereabouts it will do no harm. Into this suds 



