HOUSE AND GARDEN 
424 
May, 1913 
*wr "W - IGH time you were out in the garden under smiling vernal 
skies, planting in the summer flowerbeds. An early start 
now, means luxuriant beds all aglow by end of June. 
Jit B We send anywhere in the U. S. or Canada, large full-size 
greenhouse plants, charges prepaid by parcels post. 
They are big plants ready to set out, such as the little local florist 
charges you one dollar per dozen for; not the miserable little runts, 
uncertain to live or die, you generally get by mail. We send you with 
free cultural directions any ioo of the following plants, your selection, for 
$5.00, any 50 for $2.50, any 20 for $1.00. 
Fancy giant-flowered Chrysanthemums, 36 kinds, all hues. Fancy giant 
Carnation plants, Geraniums in all colors, Heliotropes, Marguerite 
Daisies, Salvias, Coleus, all hues, Stocks, Phlox, Ageratum, Schizan- 
thus. Dusty Miller, Golden Feather, Double Petunias, Single fringed and 
ruffled Petunias, Lobelias, Verbenas, Vincas, Snapdragon, Cannas, Alter- 
nantheras, German Ivies, Ice Pinks, Double Red and Yellow Nasturtiums, 
Chinese and other Primroses, Acalyphas, Begonias, Fuchsias, Abutilons, 
and any bedding plant not here listed you can name. 
A special price of $40.00 per any 1,000 plants, your selection. This is the 
chance for large places to get their summer flower beds at wholesale. 
Also specially grown vegetable plants: Early Cabbage, Copenhagen Mar¬ 
ket, $1.00 per 100. Early Snowball Cauliflower, $1.50 per 100. Pot-grown 
Tomato Plants, varieties, Earliana, Early Stone, Early Acme, Bonnie Best, 
Ponderosa, June Pink, 50 for $1.00. Pot-grown Sweet Pepper and Egg 
Plants, 50 for $1.00. Golden Self-Blanching Celery Plants, $1.50 per 100. 
Make up your list and send at once to the 
Harlowarden Greenhouses, Box 148, Greenport, L. I., N. Y. 
LEST YOU FORGET 
A mention of this publication will entitle you to a pre¬ 
mium of some extra choice plants in addition to order 
From actual photograph taken at Melrose. Mass. TREE TANGLEFOOT 
saved the tree on the left. Moths stripped tree on right. 
Band With 
TreeTanglefoot! 
No Creeping Insect Escapes 
Its Sticky, Deadly Grip ! 
The destroying army is coming! 
Don’t wait until you see the vanguard. 
Band your trees with Tree Tanglefoot 
two weeks before the Gypsy, Brown-tail 
and Tussock Moth Caterpillars, Canker 
Worms, Climbing Cut Worms and Bag 
Worms begin their ravaging work. 
Easily and Quickly Applied 
With a Wooden Paddle 
Tree Tanglefoot is harmless and the only 
sure and safe protective. One pound makes 
about nine lineal feet of band. One coating 
lasts three months and longer in any tem¬ 
perature, rain or shine — remains sticky and 
powerful twenty times as long as any other 
substance. Needs no mixing — just open the 
can and apply. Will not soften or run down 
the trunks of the trees. Absolutely prevents 
any creeping, crawling pests from harming 
your trees. 
Sold by Reliable Seed Houses 
Prices : One-pound cans, 30c; three-pound 
cans, 85c; ten-pound cans, $2.65; twenty-pound 
cans, $4.80. Write today for valuable free 
booklet and name of nearest dealer. 
THE O. & W. THUM COMPANY, 
Manufacturers of Tanglefoot 
Dept. L4, Grand Rapids, Michigan 
Fly Paper and Tree Tanglefoot (2) 
For Subterranean Insects, Borers and 
Internal Feeders 
Carbon Bisulphide— 
Inject a few drops of the liquid into 
holes in stems caused by borers, and plug 
with putty, wax or mud. A medicine- 
dropper may be used to drop the fluid into 
the hole. 
Make holes in the soil, where root in¬ 
sects are at work, as deep as the deepest 
traces of the insects, four holes to the 
square yard in heavy soil, three to the yard 
in light; drop two tablespoonfuls of the 
liquid into each hole, and close up at once 
by tramping the earth down hard. 
Never bring carbon bisulphide too near 
a light or fire. 
Poison Bait — For cutworms, wire- 
worms, grasshoppers, locusts and all in¬ 
sects which travel along the ground and 
eat. (Never use where there are chickens 
running in the garden, or where pets are 
allowed free range.) 
Dip small bunches of clover or any 
juicy green vegetation, into the arsenate of 
lead solution and spread about with a 
board or stone placed over each clump to 
prevent its blowing away. Renew every 
three days. Slices of apple or potato may 
be used instead of the green-growing 
stuff, if more convenient. 
A mash to put between the rows of veg¬ 
etables where cutworms and wireworms 
are troubling may be made of eight pounds 
of bran, one pound of white arsenic and 
two pounds of brown sugar. Moisten with 
enough water to make it wet but not 
sloppy. Put a teaspoonful at the base of 
each plant—but do not let it come near the 
stem, for it will burn it if it touches it. 
Tobacco is used either in the form of an 
extract, to be diluted with water, or a fine 
powder which may be dusted on moist 
foliage. Both forms are quite effective, 
and especially so as preventives. 
Lime Sulphur Wash — Always has been 
and still is used largely as a winter spray 
for dormant trees, for San Jose scale, pear 
psylla, etc. Mix one gallon of commercial 
lime sulphur with nine of water. Of late 
years, however, there have come into use 
quite extensively, to be used in the place of 
lime sulphur wash, miscible oils, which are 
very convenient to handle, and mix very 
readily with cold water. They are more 
expensive than lime-sulphur, but for using 
in the home orchard on a small scale, pref¬ 
erable to the latter. 
Of the fungicides the most extensively 
used is Ammoniacal Solution of Copper 
Carbonate. This is used for spraying 
where discoloration of foliage or flowers 
left by Bordeaux mixture is objectionable. 
Otherwise it is inferior to the latter. To 
prepare this spray, dilute three pints of 
strong ammonia in two or three quarts of 
water, and in this dissolve the copper car¬ 
bonate, six ounces. To use, dilute at the 
rate of fifty gallons of water to the above 
mixture. 
Lime-sulphur is also used as a fungi¬ 
cide, but should be made very much 
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