EKa RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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RURALISMS 
Tarnished Plant Bug on Dahlias 
For the past three years I have at¬ 
tempted to raise Dahlias and have been 
very successful up to the budding period, 
when the Tarnished plant bug will 
attack the buds, causing them to fall. I 
have used as a spray, lead. Black I^eaf 
40, tobacco dust and solution of kero¬ 
sene ; all these have failed. After fin¬ 
ishing the Dahlias they destroy most 
of the prevailing flowers, viz.. Asters, 
small sunflowers, marigolds. Zinnias, 
Summer Chrysanthemums and Coreopsis. 
I have asked for information at the 
State House sending them a specimen 
insect, but they are unable to help me. 
Chelsea, Mass. H. s. c. 
IT. S. C. apparently has experimented 
with all the remedies we have ever tried 
or seen recommended for the Tarnished 
plant bug, with the same results that we 
obtained here. It is just about useless 
for us to try to grow Dahlias on ac¬ 
count of them. They are very destruc¬ 
tive to Asters, also Chrysanthemums, 
even in the greenhouses. We have ob¬ 
tained a partial relief upon several oc¬ 
casions in a field of Asters by enclosing 
same with poultry netting and turning a 
lot of active half-grown chickens among 
the plants. Dahlias grow too tall for 
such treatment, and our experience can 
suggest no other except screening the 
plants with mosquito netting. 
ELMKR J. WEAVER. 
The Cola Plant 
On page 93 there is a communication 
about “The Cola Plant and Asthma.” 
There was, and I suppose there is now, a 
liquid preparation made from the nut of 
the Cola plant from Africa. This prepa¬ 
ration has been very beneficial in cases of 
asthma. I have taken it with gO(xl re¬ 
sults and no harmful effects. It was high 
priced, ,$2.50 or .$3 for a pint bottle. 
Vermont. . mrs. w. w. 
It is quite possible that preparations 
purporting to be made from the kola nut 
have been put on the market as asthma 
remedies, though the liquid preparations 
from the nut have no recognized value as 
such. The active principle of the nut is 
similar to that of coffee, caffeine; also 
to those active principles found in tea 
and cocoa. There have been various pro¬ 
prietary preparations containing more or 
less kola put on the market and adver- 
ti.sed as wonderful curatives and restora¬ 
tives. The fact that it is an African nut 
and has a name that rolls smoothly off the 
tongue is probably. its greatest asset to 
the patent medicine manufacturer, 
though the apperance of the name on the 
label of a bottle is not the slightest guar¬ 
antee that there is any of the nut inside. 
It is common practice among the makers 
of patent medicines to use some very or¬ 
dinary and cheap product in their nos¬ 
trums and then label them with a name 
that suggests the use of some rare and 
presumably wonderful drug; and he who 
is deceived thereby is not wise. m. r. d. 
Trouble With Snowball 
On page 1111, a sub.scriber asks in¬ 
structions relative to the proper treatment 
for a snowball bush, the leaves of which 
curl up and wither, and the blossoms fail 
to develop. The answer suggests unfav¬ 
orable weather conditions and a lack of 
nourishment, and advises pruning and 
fertilizing as possible remedies. 
In nine ca.ses out of 10, this is a proper 
treatment on general principles, and will 
almost certainly greatly benefit the bushes. 
In nine cases out of 10, also, the trouble 
is with aphis, or little green lice working 
on the under side of the leaves, and in 
the blossom buds. The life hi.story of 
these lice seems not to have been fully 
and correctly worked out. Some years 
ago the Department of Agriculture ad¬ 
vised me to give the bushes a thorough 
dormant spray with a one to 10 lime- 
sulphur solution. This spray had no 
effect, whatever. But I controlled these 
lice by attacking them with strong tobac¬ 
co water applied in a spray as soon as 
the growth of the bushes began in the 
Si)ring, and continued once a week 
throughout the season, and the -bushes 
have not been troubled since. More than 
this, they produced the finest blosso^ms 
that I have ever seen. 
-•In another instance in which the lice 
gained the advantage and curled the 
loaves so that it was impossible to hit 
the little pests with the spray, I secured 
very fair results by putting the tobacco 
water in a large dishpan, holding it under 
the bushes, and bending them down and 
immersing the twigs in the tobacco water. 
I'obacco water, rightly and thoroughly 
applied, will effectually control all forms 
of plant lice. c. o. ormsbee. 
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