86 HOW TO I)tSTI?OT IXSECTS. 



" ^ liiil riio>t easily applied remedv for gar- 



d-; - I liny.-, yet seeu.'' 



Sfr[^ r srviped bugs on melons and 



cnciiiui -i- i..^ he same method of using the 



soHp quire' eitre Lie sawdiist is Sprinkled on the 



plants i-verv day, wiiieli is very little troiihle : hut the 

 plants may !)e wet directly with weak suds, made of ten 

 gallons of water to half a pound of soap." 



Aj[>Jiis Fluni-lke. — ^- For aphis or plant-lice on 

 eheriy-trees and the like a sprinkling or two with the 

 suds by means ot a sponge, or bending the shoots so as 

 to dip tliein into a pail or basin, is speed}' death to the 

 bugs. Care must l)e used not to have the suds too 

 strong when applied to tender plants or young shoots 

 of trees." 



Grape-riue Worms. — Carbolic-acid washes are cer- 

 tain (leatli to Avorms that infest the leaves of grape- 

 vines. A pound of the article dissolved in fifteen or 

 twenty gallons of water ^viH fbmi a large ([uantity, 

 which can be forced by a syriige over the entire vine: 

 on n applications uri^e away everything of in- 



sei , : . . 



WdsJi for Peach-trees, etc. — For all garden iruit- 

 trees ii<e it in the proportirni of one j)!)and of soap to 

 ten gallons of wntei' : sprinkle well over the bark, and 

 ants, worms, borers, liifs v.ill all flee. 



Ej'peiii)'eitts on Garden Trees. SJn'uhs, etc., iritli 

 Ciirholic Soaj). — The editor of the Morticulturist^ after 



