TIIE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1915 
2-24 
A Hillside 
without Foliage 
is a Pitiful Sight 
A HOME 
without shrubbery, without a garden, 
looks as desolate and as cheerless in the 
eyes of vour friends and neighbors as this 
hillside looks to you. 
BEAUTY and PERMANENCE 
in shrubs, trees and plants depends upon health just as 
much as in human beings. All our stock is HEALTHY. 
Oar 1915 Catalog is Yours for the Asking 
Two Fine Garden Tools 
This fine trowel is almost everlasting. Blade is 
1/16 of an inch thick — made from crucible steel 
of highest grade. Steel rivet holds maple handle 
so it can’t work loose. Blade, neck and socket 
all one piece. Will last a lifetime. 
The New Dodson Sparrow Trap 
Garden 
Trowel 
No KC4 
with 
B:nt 
Neck 
Price 
$0.75 
No. EOS 
with 
Straight 
Neck 
Price $0.75 \ 
KfiN mm 
Garden Tools 
are all first quality. This Keen 
Kutter garden fork is made from 
highest grade crucible steel, one 
piece, forged, polished tines and 
neck. Head 5| inches long. Var- 
nish d hardwood handle. No 
better at any price. Ask your 
dealer to show you. 
Send for our Garden Tool 
Booklet No. /. 1646 
If not at your dealer’s, write us. 
SIMMONS HARDWARE 
COMPANY 
St. Louis, U. S. A. 
Double funnel trap on left, automatic drop trap on right; 
catches sparrows at both ends. No other trap like this. 
Made of strong, electrically welded wire; lasts a life-time. 
Price $ 6 .oo, f.o.b. Chicago. 
The old-style Dodson Trap has been successful for two 
years — thousands in use. This is notably better. 
Banish sparrows and native birds will return to your 
garden. The sparrow is a quarrelsome pest. U. S. Dept, 
of Agriculture Bulletin advocates destruction of English 
Sparrows. 
Sparrows are good for one thing only — they’re good to 
eat. Often served as Reed Birds. 
Write for Sparrow Trap booklet and for Dodson Bird 
Book which tells how to win native birds to live in your 
garden — both free. Mr. Dodson, a Director of the Illinois 
Audubon Society, has been building bird houses for 20 
years. Dodson houses win birds. Write to 
JOSEPH H. DODSON, 709 Security Bldg., Chicago, 111. 
Roses For Your 
Home, Too 
What a transformation the Queen 
of Flowers works with any dwel- 
ling! How fascinating is this lit- 
tle home — a veritable bower of 
roses! Why don’t you learn the 
delight of rose growing, too? You 
can have the aristocrats of the 
rose world in your garden, around 
your walks and climbing your 
porches. From all the varieties 
now in commerce, we have se- 
lected for you nearly 400 — the 
very cream of the world’s best 
roses. Take your choice. Ourfree 
literature will help you. Our book, "How 
to Grow Roses” will point a straight path- 
way to a beautiful, permanent rose garden. The book costs 
xoc. Ten delightful chapters, beautifully illustrated. Write 
for it today. Ask for our Canna book, too. It’s free. 
C & J ROSES to bloom 
The CON ARD & Jones Co. 
Box 24 West Grove, Penna. 
The Rose Bug Routed at Last 
T WO years ago no insecticide had been dis- 
covered that in any way controlled the in- 
crease of rose bugs. Plant pathologists from the 
state institutions tried every known means of com- 
bating the pest, and it flourished in spite of all the 
efforts of the entomologists. It is doubtless under- 
stood that the injury done by rose bugs is not to 
roses and garden vegetation alone, but that they 
sometimes are destructive to orchards. It was 
because they had attacked an orchard of a Western 
New York fruit grower, Mr. H. W. Lasher, that a 
successful treatment was discovered. 
In the following digest of a report of his experi- 
ments, Mr. Lasher tells his own story better than 
any one else could that was not on the ground and 
conducted the experiments. Mr. Lasher says: 
“In a conversation with the late Mr. George 
Wildin e -bout the infestation, he suggested I com- 
municate with Mr. Babcock, stating he was a 
most thorough grower. I did so and Mr. Babcock 
said that he could kill them with a combination of 
fish oil soap and crude carbolic acid. He had had 
trouble with them and after trying everything had 
concluded they had to be fought along absorption 
lines. He knew the penetrative power of carbolic 
acid, and by experiments found by combining it 
with fish oil soap he could counteract the burning 
properties. Prof. Hotchkiss, of the State Experi- 
ment Station at Geneva, came at once and he and I 
tried this combination of soap and carbolic acid, 
and the effect exceeded expectations. They died 
at once when hit. I watched these trees all summer 
for a delayed bum which did not come. In fact 
the foliage seemed a darker green than on trees not 
treated, thus showing fungicidal properties. 
“After killing the rose bugs, I then conceived the 
idea that with this wonderful penetrative power it 
might be possible to spray egg masses of all insects 
and take the fertility out of the same, reasoning 
that if that were possible orchards would be free from 
all insect life except such as may fly in from un- 
sprayed areas. This could not be large; therefore 
all sprayings subsequent to the dormant period 
would be eliminated, creating a tremendous saving 
in time and expense. 
“With this end in mind I began experiments in 
May, 1914, on eleven apple trees of different varie- 
ties, fifty-five years old, distributed through a 
fourteen acre orchard. The application was made 
just as the leaf bud was -breaking. I considered 
that to be the psychological time, and am now of 
that belief. Early broods that have hatched have 
no place to hide, and the egg masses I believe to be 
softer then than earlier in the season, and more 
susceptible. This orchard subsequently developed 
the worst attack of pink aphis I ever saw, every tree 
having thousands upon thousands of curled leaves. 
At this period, with the view of saving the crop, I 
set a force at taking off those leaves in picking sacks 
and burning them, following up closely with this 
spraying formula and thus getting the second 
generation winged and nymphs of these aphis. I 
might here add that I consider the picking of the 
leaves to have been a failure as they were past 
saving, and money spent for repeated spraying is 
more efficacious although nothing will get the 
aphids in leaves already curled. 
“Should any one, however, through earlier neglect 
find they have an infestation and determine to 
pick the leaves, let me suggest that he pick them 
before he sprays. If he does it the other way (and 
I tried it that way also), the fumes are so nauseous 
that the aphis will crawl from the leaves and rein- 
fest other parts before you can get the aphis leaves 
picked. 
“While fighting these aphids Professor Hotchkiss 
kindly paid the farm several visits. We counted 
the curled leaves on the eleven trees, and as I recall 
it, the maximum was 120 on a tree, the minimum 
30 — such a negligible amount that in a year pro- 
nounced free from aphis one would have more than 
that amount. The limbs of these trees interlaced 
with limbs of trees of the same variety that at that 
time were as aforesaid, covered with thousands of 
these curled leaves. Later on, these eleven trees, 
from their proximity, became infested with the 
winged form (the second and third generation) but 
not seriously. On a visit later in the summer from 
B. J. Case and Mr. McDill of Sodus, they remarked 
on the darker green foliage of these eleven trees. 
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