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October 18, 1924 
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The Orange Garden Spider 
What kind of spider is it that is velvet 
black with two rows of yellow patches on 
its back? It has long legs, is large, and 
spins a web on beans, vines, or other 
plants. Are there any books on all in¬ 
sects, with colored plates, that are low 
in price? g. p. h. 
Foxboro, Mass. 
From the description given by G. P. H. 
we can easily recognize our beautiful 
orange garden spider, known scientifical¬ 
ly as Miranda aurantia. It is a large 
handsome, harmless and interesting spid¬ 
er, found everywhere in gardens and 
fields, and often spins a very large 'web 
in many convenient situations. Its web 
is a marvel of construction, and the mak¬ 
ing of it would furnish an interesting 
story. This spider is of great benefit be¬ 
cause it catches and destroys many in¬ 
sects. 
There are no books giving Colored 
plates of all insects. There are over 
400,000 insects known, and it would take 
12 volumes of 500 pages each to hold 
merely the names of these insects if 
there were two columns on a page with 
35 names in each column. The question 
is, how many volumes would it take to 
hold a colored picture of each of these 
400,000 and more insects, and who would 
publish them and who would buy them? 
Such a vseries of volumes is almost be¬ 
yond the imagination—certainly beyond 
any reasonable possibility. 
On the other hand there is a compact 
book, “A Field Handbook of Insects,” 
by F. E. Lutz, that contains colored 
plates of many of our common insects. 
“The Moth Book,” by W. J. Holland, 
also contains many fine colored plates of 
common species of moths and butterflies 
and “The Insect Book,” by L. O. How¬ 
ard, contains many plates in black and 
white and some colored plates of many 
of our common insects. These three books 
are of value to anyone who desires to 
become acquainted with some of the com¬ 
mon forms of these abundant, wide¬ 
spread and interesting animals. 
GLENN W. HERRICK. 
Improving a Poor Lawn 
We have a small frojit lawn that is 
shaded by two very large sycamore trees. 
Through July and August and part of 
September this lawn gets practically no 
sun at all. The soil is quite sandy. Last 
Fall we sodded the lawn and there was 
a very good showing for a lawn until 
about the latter part of July when it be¬ 
gan drying down, and now there is scarce¬ 
ly any grass, although the roots may not 
be dead. We used bone meal for fer¬ 
tilizer. We have tried the seed for shad¬ 
ed lawn, but a hard rain would seem to 
wash it out. Do you think it possible 
the trees have absorbed all the strength 
from the soil and fertilizer would renew 
it? We read of some new product, Lip- 
pia lawn. Is it anything that can be 
recommended to our climate in Cleveland, 
Ohio? Is there any other plant to cover 
ground where grass will not grow? 
Cleveland, Ohio. MRS. a. b. c. 
It is evident that starvation, as well 
as shade, is responsible for the poor con¬ 
dition of your lawn. A sandy soil shad¬ 
ed by large trees, would give very little 
nutriment for grass. It should have been 
enriched with humus in the form of barn¬ 
yard manure, well worked into the top 
soil. If it had been well prepared before 
seeding, and thoroughly rolled, we do not 
think the seed would have been washed 
out, unless there is a steep slope. The 
sod, put upon poor sandy soil, with bone- 
meal only for fertilizer, could not grow 
through the season with the further han¬ 
dicap of heavy shade. “Worn-out lawns 
are sometimes renovated by top-dressing 
with a compost consisting of equal parts 
of soil and well-rotted manure, to which 
10 per cent of tankage is added. If it 
appears that the roots of the sod are not 
dead, we would suggest such an applica¬ 
tion this Fall, with another top-dressing 
of short well rotted manure next March. 
It is not likely, however, that ordinary 
sod will do as well in this situation as 
one of the grass mixtures especially pre¬ 
pared for shade. 
The Lippia used as a ground cover in 
California will grow in dry sandy places, 
in full sun, but it is a small-leaved shrub¬ 
by plant very different in effect from 
grass. We doubt its hardiness in the 
East. English ivy is often used as a 
ground cover in shady places, but needs 
moisture. The Japanese spurge, Pachy- 
sandra terminalis, is a neat evergreen 
often used to cover the ground in shady 
places. None of these ground coverings, 
however, will take the place of grass on 
a lawn. 
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death announcement. “How much do you 
charge?” he asked. “Ten shillings * an 
inch,” was the reply. “Heavens! He was 
over six feet high !”—Kasper. 
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