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The Garden Magazine, May, 1920 
How This Strong Chain Protects 
You In Buying Nursery Stock 
D ID you know there’s a big constructive move 
afoot that’s going tc mean more planting satis- 
faction to you and to everyone who uses trees or 
plants ? 
The men behind this movement have linked them- 
selves together, to make it their business to see that 
you get satisfaction with every tree and plant you buy. 
They are the Members of the American Associa- 
tion of Nurserymen: men whose methods and stand- 
ards come up to the Association measure: men who 
are permanently established in the business and who 
seek to give honest stock and dependable service. 
Buying from any Member of this Association, you 
have the Association’s assurance of satisfaction back 
of your purchase. 
Just what the American Association of Nursery- 
men is. and how, through its Vigilance Committee, 
it is aiding buyers of trees and plants to get varie- 
ties true-to-name, free from disease and of satisfac- 
tory quality, is told in our Booklet, “ Looking Both 
Ways Before You Buy Nursery Stock.” 
Of the greatest importance to you; it contains a list 
of the members cf the Association. 
We will gladly send you a copy. 
In doing your part to make America fruitful and 
beautiful get your trees and plants from a Member 
whose use of the Association’s Trade-Mark links him 
in the strong chain of cooperative protection to 
planters. 
Americ&iv 
Association 
Nurserymen. 
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General Offices, 
Princeton, N. J. 
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( Continued from page 204) 
Soap, particularly strong Ivory soapsuds, is a 
very safe and satisfactory application for soft- 
bodied insects on house plants. Whale-oil soap, 
one pound to five or six gallons of water, is one 
of the older and more effective remedies for 
sucking insects; but on account of its disagreeable 
odor this is better adapted to outdoor than indoor 
use. 
Pyrethrum or insect powder may be used at 
the rate of one ounce to three gallons of water, or 
simply as dry powder diluted with flour. In the 
latter case it should be mixed several hours be- 
fore application. It is used mostly indoors, and 
unless fresh is practically worthless. 
Slug Shot is, perhaps, the most widely used of 
all powder preparations compounded to combat 
leaf-chewing insects. 
Hellebore, one ounce to three gallons of water 
is both a contact and internal insecticide and is 
particularly valuable for use on nearly ripe fruits 
when arsenicals cannot be employed with safety. 
FERTILIZER AND SPRAY AND 
ROSES 
IF EVERY one has had the trouble I have ex- 
*■ perienced in discovering the proper propor- 
tions for fertilizers, 1 hope the following may be 
of help. I use vinegar barrels for its preparation 
and suspend the manure in gunny sacks and let 
it stand a week before using. These barrels run 
about 42 gallons capacity to the barrel. 
Liquid hen manure — A scant two pecks to a 
barrel of water. 
Horse manure — Two pecks and a half, the 
quantity being regulated by the strawincss of 
the manure. 
Cow manure — the same. 
Commercial pulverized sheep manure — Two 
pecks. 
Besides applying these alternately each week 
1 hoe lightly and keep the soil broken up. 
Slugs, aphids, and mildew, with a sprinkling 
of Rose beetles, are my only Rose troubles. One 
good spraying with Pyrox has banished the bugs 
and mildew for the season with me, although often 
they may need more than one application. A 
compressed air sprayer is necessary as it is an 
arm- and back-breaking job to try to stand on a 
step ladder and work a plunger over any extent 
of climbing Rose surface. I tried it — just once! 
Poultry manure, by the way, is very rich in 
nitrogen and should be allowed to dry as quickly 
as possible and then should be kept dry. In this 
condition it will lose but a small amount of its 
valuable constituents. Like ordinary manure.it 
ferments rapidly when moist and will lose a part 
of this valuable element — nitrogen — worth on the 
market 25 to 30 cents a pound, if not dry. So 
much of its potash, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen 
is soluble indeed that this manure suffers espe- 
cially from leaching. 
Sherman Duffy 
