For mildew on roses and phlox and for blight on Delphiniums, 
begin earl}* in the season and spray once a week with Fungine. 
Care must be used not to spray with Fungine in greenhouses, nor 
in trellises, as it takes off the paint. 
An excellent gardener tells me he prefers a Fungicide called 
" Copperdine,' ' or any of the Copper solutions sold by reliable nursery 
men for Holly-hocks and Phlox, rather than Fungine. This Copper 
solution is also very effective for "Black Spot" on tomatoes. 
Diseases and insect pests of currants and gooseberries. 
San Jose scale, frequently found on these bushes, is best treated 
by spraying each year during the dormant period with lime-sulphur- 
concentrate at the rate of i gallon to 8 gallons of water. 
The Currant Worm — which attacks gooseberries as well as currants 
— is about ^ of an inch long and is green with yellowish ends. It is 
a greedy feeder — will quickly strip a plant of its foliage— hence 
treatment should be given as soon as its presence is suspected. If 
left to their own sweet will three broods will often appear in one season. 
The}' are readily destroyed with arsenate of lead — used at the rate 
of 2 lbs. of paste to 50 gallons of water. This should be applied in the 
spring just after the leaves appear. If it is found necessarv' to treat 
for a second brood, when the fruit is ripening, powdered hellebore 
should be used as a spray — i oz. to i gallon of water or dusted on 
diluted with flour 5 to 8 times. 
The Currant Aphis curls the leaves of currants and gooseberries 
and makes little pockets on the lower leaf surface. This is best con- 
trolled by spraying just when the leaf buds open with a nicotine 
solution, using i ounce to 8 gallons of water. 
No variety of currant or gooseberry appears to be immune to the 
White Pine Blister Rust. This is a fungus which grows on the leaves 
of these fruits and then attacks and kills five-needled pines. Spraying 
has not proved successful in preventing infection, or in killing the 
fungus after it is present. Therefore, if the disease exists in localities 
where it is desirable to grow white pines, it is necessary to destroy all 
currant and gooseberry bushes, both cultivated and wild, also orna- 
mental and flowering currants, within a third of a mile of the pines. 
The BHster Rust first attacks the twigs of a pine tree then gradually 
works into the larger branches and the trunk. It kills by girdling 
the bark. No tree infected with this disease has been known to 
recover. Fortunately it cannot go from one tree to another — but 
requires a period of incubation on the leaf of a gooseberry or currant, 
where it undergoes several changes before it can again attack pines. 
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