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Plants Which Repel Flies 
Are house or outdoor plants which 
are distasteful to flies of any real 
value in keeping away flies from 
around farmhouses, and in horse and 
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East Aurora, N. Y. m. b. 
Sambucus nigra. Leaves said to kill 
several species of noxious insects. 
Malta azadiraclita, Pride of India. 
Leaves and berries packed with dried 
fruits said to preserve them from in¬ 
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Eupatorium fceniculum, dog fennel. 
Said to have been used in the vSouth 
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Hedeoma pulegioides, pennyroyal. 
Said to drive away mosquitoes. 
Ocimum vidide, and other species of 
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Eucalyptus globulus. This tree has 
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Ricimus communis. It is said that 
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spots. Those spots do not go through to 
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Andover. Mass. 
Nearly 500 species of insects have 
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fruit, but in spite of these pesky little 
foes, apples are grown in abundance 
in this country. Fortunately not all of 
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A. T. B.'s Baldwiu trees are infested 
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the upper and lower skins of the leaf, 
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In such a ease the leaves may wither 
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ing with tiie growth of the tree and de¬ 
velopment of fruit and buds. 
The insect passes the Winter as a 
caterpillar in the mines in the fallen 
leaves on the ground. This at once sug¬ 
gests a method of control, either by 
plowing the leaves under in the late 
Fall or early Spring, or by raking them 
up and burning them. In most orchards 
of any extent it is easier to plow the 
leaves under, and it lias been noted that 
this pest is much less numerous and 
less injurious in well-tilled orchards. 
Probably the caterpillars could, he 
killed in the leaves by spraying the 
trees in June with nicotine sulphate 
(black-leaf-401 at the rate of one pint 
to 100 gallons of water with 5 lbs. of 
soap dissolved aud add to the mix¬ 
ture to make it spread and stick to the 
leaves. So far as I know, this remedy 
has never been tried for the trumpet 
leaf-miner, but an insect that mines in 
elm leaves is easily killed by spraying 
with this mixture. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
A dwarf, giant podded variety re¬ 
sembling the Gradus in style of pod. 
i Vines grow about 24 inches high, pods 
dark green, ready to pick two days ear¬ 
lier than Gradus and five days earlier than 
Laxtonian and Peter Pan, a decidedly r 
heavier cropper. 1 
Delights in a rich, medium loam, yet 
stands dry weather better than the tall- 
growing varieties. On our farms the past < 
season, it proved to be one of the most ^ 
profitable peas we ever grew. , 
It is becoming very popular on account of its easv culture and 
superb quality. Ready to pick lUdays AfLr planted. Doesn't need 
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