HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 
I9D 
is so minded; but as some of the biggest orchardists find it not 
worth while to go to the trouble of preparing it, but prefer to 
buy it in wholesale quantity from manufacturers, it hardly seems 
that the average fruit grower or gardener is wise to undertake 
its concoction. The 
formula is given, 
however, with others, 
for the benefit of 
those who wish to try 
it. Follow directions 
exactly as to quanti¬ 
ties, also as to mix¬ 
ing. diluting and ap¬ 
plying all of these; 
the slightest deviation 
may mean disaster. 
In addition to be¬ 
ing the best means of 
combating the scale 
an the plants’ dor¬ 
mant stage this in¬ 
secticide is also a 
fungicide of the high¬ 
est value. Its use 
holds in check peach- 
leaf curl, apple scab, 
a nd such fungous 
torments; also the 
blister mite on pears, 
which causes black 
spots on the leaves 
and makes them fall 
off, thus checking the 
trees' growth. This February spraying must include everything 
on the place, if scale is found on anything. Once let this insect 
get the upper hand and it is almost impossible to control it. Do 
not give it a chance to get the advantage, but spray all fruit trees 
and bushes, all shade trees and all shrubs, letting nothing escape 
w it hout its 
weakens whatever it attacks; and from one infested bush or 
tree the creatures spread amazingly to all the rest, being carried 
when newly hatched on the feet of birds or on the backs of other 
insects; those that are winged, and therefore efficient carriers. 
Late in March, or 
at the beginning of 
April, when the young 
leaves are just begin¬ 
ning to put forth, the 
young new brood of 
scales are also begin¬ 
ning to live and move 
and have their inde¬ 
pendent being. This 
is the time for a sec¬ 
ond spraying; not 
with lime - sulphur 
now, by any means, 
but with the milder 
kerosene-soap emul¬ 
sion, which will not 
injure the young 
growth. Again, every¬ 
thing should be given 
a thorough coating, 
and every part of 
each tree or shrub 
must be reached, as 
a single insect over¬ 
looked, and so es¬ 
caping, means almost 
untold thousands of 
its descendants by 
midsummer, the rate of multiplication being very rapid indeed. 
It is usually considered discreet to use a weaker solution of 
the emulsion upon shade trees and shrubbery and all fruits save 
the apple and pear. 
On a large place where there are orchards as well as large 
shade and or- 
Courtesy of The E. C. Brown Co. 
There is no reason why a number of garden lovers in a community should not contribute toward the 
purchase of one large machine. It would eliminate labor and ultimate expense 
namental trees 
Close scrutiny is required to detect the San Jose Scale, the 
growth of which is rapid and destructive, and should be 
halted at once 
The Oyster Shell Scale is longer than the San 
Jose and thickly encrusts the bark. Spraying 
now should exterminate it 
The Shot Hole Borer can be detected by the tiny round 
holes in the bark, a decrepit tree being its favorite breed¬ 
ing place 
