House and Garden 
PROTECTS THE TREES 
“Tree Tanglefoot” is an Effectual Bar 
to Insect Pests 
A STICKY preparation applied di- 
^ ^ rectly to the bark of trees, and 
known as “Tree Tanglefoot,” has been 
used very extensively with great success 
in New England against the gypsy and 
brown tail moth, and in the California 
prune orchards against the canker worm. 
It will not injure trees, and is applied to 
make a band five inches wide and one- 
sixteenth of an inch thick. No climb¬ 
ing insect pest can cross this. It re¬ 
mains sticky much longer than any 
other known substance. All who wish 
to preserve fruit or shade trees will find 
that the slight expense of “Tree Tangle¬ 
foot” bears no comparison to the bene¬ 
fit it will confer. It costs only twenty- 
five cents per pound, much less in 
greater quantities, and should be applied 
when the caterpillars begin to crawl. 
Any druggist or general dealer can sup¬ 
ply “Tree Tanglefoot” and anyone can 
apply it, as no apparatus is required. 
THE BEST BORDEAUX 
^ I 'HE value of this mixture for a fun- 
gicide consists principally in the 
adhesiveness of the copper. The 
French experimenter G. Gastine reports 
many tests made with copper mixtures 
and solutions. His conclusions in a 
summary of his work show that of all 
the alkaline Bordeaux made by what he 
terms the American method (supposedly 
5 lb. lime, 5 lb. copper sulphate and 50 
gals, water) and the same to which mo¬ 
lasses or linseed oil was added were the 
best, 90 to 95 per cent of the copper re¬ 
maining on the leaves after washing. 
The adhesiveness of the copper was less¬ 
ened when the ingredientswere mixed in 
too concentrated form. Delay in ap¬ 
plication after mixing reduced adhesive¬ 
ness but the mixture to which molasses 
was added was effective after forty-eight 
hours .—The Country Gentleman. 
Our native Rhododendron maximum 
deserves planting because of its late 
flowering. It is almost midsummer 
before it blooms. The prevailing color 
is light pink to the bud, becoming white 
on full expansion; some are tinted pur¬ 
ple. In its native haunts it grows to a 
height of 20 feet.— Florists’ Exchange. 
7Q " Anniversary Number 
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