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Plan for 
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Haphazard Planting and Perennial Effects 
do not go Together 
Be prepared or let 11s help you. 
If you have in mind a new gar- 
den or wish to change the old, 
this is the time to complete your 
plans, and we offer our coopera- 
tion. Our success in the nurs- 
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take in each customer’s problems. 
We are Specialists to 
Exacting Hobbyists 
We specialize in Rock Garden 
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and have thousands to select 
from. Write us for catalogue, 
and if you think we can help 
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The Best Climber 
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Those who know this plant say no other 
climber approaches it. 
EVERGREEN BITTERSWEET 
Euonymus radicans vegetus 
Red berries brighten it in winter, in 
summer it needs no color. 
My catalogue of this and other novelties will be 
sent free on request — write to-day. 
Adolf 5 Muller NURSERIES 
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The Garden. Magazine, May, 1920 
THE GENTLE ART OF DE- 
STROYING INSECT PESTS 
S INCE ‘‘for every evil under the sun there be 
a remedy, or there be none,” it is simply in 
the natural course of events that the plant grower 
promptly sets out to squelch the “evil beasts of 
small dimensions” that flourish in his garden at 
the expense of the much coveted flowers or fruits. 
And the old saw further runs, "if there be one go 
and find it.” Good advice, indeed; and as things 
are to-day one has not far to seek, since he has 
only to take advantage of the manufactured 
articles obtainable in the market. It is well 
enough of course to know about the constituent 
elements of such preparations so as to be able to 
use them with intelligence; but it is generally best 
io use a branded preparation made on exact 
formulas and properly mixed, than to undertake 
mixing with the insufficient appliances of the 
ordinary home. 
Arsenate of lead, two or three pounds of paste 
or half that of the dry or powdered form, to 
fifty gallons of water is one of the best and most 
generally used poisons for leaf-eating insects. 
It is usually best to add a fungicide such as 
bordeaux mixture or dilute lime-sulphur wash in 
order to obtain protection from fungi as well as 
insects with one spray application. The high 
grade commercial preparations offered as “com- 
plete” sprays contain the two in proper pro- 
portion usually. 
Tobacco extracts (“Black-leaf forty” being 
typical), are very generally used as contact 
insecticides for aphids and other soft-bodied 
insects, about a pint of the extract and six or eight 
pounds of any cheap soap being added to one 
hundred gallons of water. Aphine is one of the 
commercial preparations having tobacco extract 
in mixture. Thrip Juice No. 2 is another power- 
ful "contact” insecticide used for both sucking 
and leaf-chewing insects. Tobacco stalk or leaf 
is also used as a fumigant in green houses and may 
be purchased in forms specially prepared for this 
purpose. Combinations of lime, sulphur, and 
tobacco are offered in several forms, their brand 
names usually being suggestive or descriptive. 
Lime-sulphur, 32 degrees Beaume, diluted 1 
to 8 or 10, is a very generally employed spray for 
scale insects, and diluted at 1 to 40 is used to some 
extent with a poison spray because of its fungi- 
cidal properties. Besides being offered under its 
exact name, it is also offered in brands like Horri- 
cum. Dry lime-sulphur may be used for scale 
insects, though this is not recommended for 
summer treatments. 
Miscible oils, such as Scalecide,SulcoV.-B.,etc., 
are used by many for control of scale insects in 
particular. Since oils may be injurious to plants 
if carelessly used, directions must be followed 
closely; and never apply it to Sugar Maples. 
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Now is the Time to Plant 
DAHLIAS 
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