HOODACRES DELPHINIUMS 
Delphinium Enemies 
The clean garden discourages many enemies, especially 
the bacterial ones. Decaying litter provides them a good 
home. 
Avoid fresh manures near plants as you would the pest¬ 
ilence. And use any high-powered fertilizer with extreme 
caution. It is much safer to stick to the plain old-fashioned 
foods that we all know how to deal with. 
Before the Delphiniums start growth in spring a lime- 
sulphur spraying of the soil, at the orchard strength of 
ten to one, is an excellent precautionary measure. 
If there is a tendency to mildew or black-spot, adding 
Black-leaf 40 to the lime-sulphur at the rate of one table¬ 
spoon to three gallons of water, is recommended. Fortu¬ 
nately, Hoodacres is quite free from these disturbances. 
Slugs will sometimes leave home merely by the use of 
sharp sand strewn over the ground, but more persistent 
breeds may need copper sulphate crystals crushed fine 
and scattered where they raid. This is very poisonous and 
must be handled accordingly. 
CONTINUOUS STREAM OF VISITORS 
Belleville, Ontario, July 1932. “Last year I bought a 
packet of your Complete Range seeds and one of Wrex¬ 
ham. At the present moment the plants are in full bloom 
and present a sight not soon forgotten. I took eight first 
prizes with them two weeks ago. There was nothing at the 
show to equal them. As a result there has been a continu¬ 
ous stream of visitors, all of them amazed at the size and 
perfection of spike and flower and the range of shades 
embraced.” 
THE TALK OF THE TOWN 
Butte, Montana, August 1933. “I have had a glorious dis¬ 
play of Delphiniums this season, some plants reaching 
eight feet in height, with individual florets two and three- 
fourths inches in diameter. They are the talk ol the town. ’ 
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