The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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SEED CATALOG 
PLANTERS in ail parts of Am- 
erica are coming more and more 
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seeds. Burpee Quality Seeds are the 
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It is well known that the House 
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are now in general cultivation than 
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For 1924 we are offering some of 
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been introduced in recent years. 
Amongst the Burpee Novelties is our 
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In our new catalog we are also now of¬ 
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The Common Red Spider 
I have some palms and some other 
house plants that are infested with a tiny 
spider, and I want to know how to rid 
these plants of the pest. I could only 
identify the spider through a lens, for 
they are so small. It is a spider, for I 
could count eight legs, weaving a web; 
has a little brownish spot on the side of 
the abdomen, and travels quite rapidly. 
The color is a clear cream color, and as 
a mass with the naked eye it looks white. 
I have used “Black Leaf 40,” also a poi¬ 
son, but perhaps I have not been per¬ 
sistent enough. MKS. F. C. L. 
Endicott, N. Y. 
Nothing better for ridding plants <>f 
the common red spider has been found 
than plain water. It is customary in 
greenhouses to sprinkle plants infested 
with this pest with water under consid¬ 
erable pressure, and to keep the atmos¬ 
phere in the house as moist as possible. 
I would suggest that Mrs. F. C. L. pur¬ 
chase a hand atomizer and spray the fo¬ 
liage of the infested palms and other 
plants with water, exercising special 
pains to wet the under sides of the leaves. 
It might be well to turn the plants bot¬ 
tom side up. if possible, and atomize them 
while in this position. It would probably 
be well to atomize the plants once a day 
for two or three days, and thereafter 
twice a week until the spiders disappear. 
If there is any way to keep the atmos¬ 
phere in the room where the plants are 
growing with more moisture in it the red 
spiders would not he so likely to return. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
The Curious Snow-Fleas 
Will you give me an outline of the life 
history of snow-fleas? They are a dark 
purple, almost black, and very small. In 
February and March, in black growth, 
they can be seen where the sun shines in, 
hopping around in countless thousands, 
usually in a sled road at temperatures 
that would be fatal to any other insect 
life. How do they get there when there 
is 2 ft. of snow with three or four crusts 
through it? I don’t see how they can 
come up through from the ground, and it 
does not seem likely that they stay in the 
trees in the early Winter and drop on 
the snow. Other publications have treat¬ 
ed this question with great hilarity, or 
else said they never heard of such an in¬ 
sect. c. A. F. 
Sandy Point Me. 
It is an interesting fact that some in¬ 
sects delight to live during the season of 
the year when the temperature is low. 
Indeed, some insects appear to shun the 
heat and appear to be in distress when 
brought into the presence of high tem¬ 
peratures. 
The snow-flea (Achorutes nivicola) is 
one of the insects that seems to prefer 
low temperature for, as C. A. F. relates, 
it is found on the surface of the snow, 
especially in the woods in the Spring, 
sometimes in such enormous numbers that 
the snow appears to be coated with them 
as though grains of gunpowder had been 
scattered everywhere. Hollows and holes 
in the snow are often black with them, 
and when the snow is melting the rivulets 
running in *the tracks of a sleigh bear in¬ 
numerable individuals on their currents. 
During sugar making time the snow- 
fleas often become a source of annoyance, 
for they get into the sap in the buckets, 
and into the boiling pans. 
I shall have to confess that I know 
nothing of the life history of this tiny 
insect, and I cannot find that anyone else 
knows anything definite about it. It cer¬ 
tainly lays its tiny white eggs some¬ 
where, and I would hazard the guess that 
they are laid in the moss on trees, stumps 
and logs where there is considerable mois¬ 
ture. From these situations the snow- 
fleas, when they hatch from the eggs, 
find their way over the surface of the 
snow, for they are active and move about 
by leaping. GLENN w. herrick. 
Culture of Celeriac 
Will you give information concerning 
the growing of celeriac roots? State when 
plants are set out. or when are seeds 
planted for growth in open garden ? What 
fertilizer is needed? When and how har¬ 
vested? T. c. E. 
Scituate, Mass. 
Celeriac roots are planted and grown 
in almost the same manner as celery. 
The seed is sown the first of May, and 
the plants are transplanted about the 
10th of July, 8. to 10 in. apart, in rows 
3 ft. apart. It does not have to be hanked 
or boarded up like celery. w. P, 
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