November, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
33 1 
bone meal and hard wood ashes. Let 
this settle well before planting. Don’t 
plant the tree too deep. Go by the mark 
on the trunk made by the nursery planting. 
If you have the necessary amount of loam 
you can brick up to within a very short 
distance of the tree without injuring it in 
the least. 
A stake is for support. The young tree 
is to be fastened to it to protect it from 
shock and to enable the roots to establish 
themselves in the ground. A stake should 
be large enough to fulfill all these require¬ 
ments and it should be firmly set in the 
ground. Don’t try to set it after the loam 
has been filled in, but fill in the loam about 
it. Stakes as generally used are useless 
and contribute very often by their flimsi¬ 
ness to the failure of the tree to grow. 
Choose a large stake. Don't let the fact 
that it is larger than the tree itself frighten 
you, for it will take but a comparatively 
short time to rectify this condition. Clean 
the stake and paint it. This is artistic 
economy. 
A tree guard is almost as necessary as 
a stake. Put on a strong one and also let 
it be large enough to encircle both the tree 
and the stake. For fastening the tree 
nothing is better than pieces of hose. 
Make an eight bend about the tree and 
stake, fastening with tar rope run through 
the hose. Three or four such fastenings 
will be sufficient for a fair-sized tree. As 
a further protection wrap the tree in bur¬ 
lap from the bottom to a little above the 
protector, sewing it tight and fastening to 
a lower branch to prevent sagging. A 
lighter guard of poultry netting can be 
used where there is little liability of dam¬ 
age. This guard should be fastened tightly 
to the stake. L. J. Doogue 
Fighting the Brown-Tail Moth 
L AST year a certain little town in New 
Hampshire voted to expend twenty- 
five dollars for the attempt to investigate 
the control of the Brown-tail moth by 
means of a fungus parasite. The writer 
happened to be employed in the town at 
horticultural work, and as the work of ex¬ 
perimenting on this insect with the para¬ 
site was given to a party not known to me 
and the fact that my line of work covered 
the subject, I concluded to give this para¬ 
site a private test in the woodland with 
the consent of my employer. 
The Brown-tail moth was a problem to 
everyone in that locality because it de¬ 
foliated the trees in a part of the country 
noted for its beautiful scenery, and the 
rash received from the hairs of the moth 
was very painful and annoying. It is 
not necessary to enter into an extended ac¬ 
count of the habits of this insect because it 
is well known, but there are many who 
do not know the life history of this moth, 
and in order to treat an insect with poison 
or parasite its life history should be 
known. The proper time to attack an in- 
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