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partment with sufficient soil compact to 
its roots. With these potting can be done 
at a bench in standing position, instead of 
having to get on your knees in frames. 
Other flats have a side piece that can be 
removed and the whole block of compart¬ 
ments pushed out on the work table. Ama¬ 
teurs can make a convenient propagating 
frame by using one of these detachable 
side flats, and after planting the seed or 
small plants, put it in a sheltered spot in 
the garden. Covering it with a pane of 
glass of suitable size, you have a perfect 
little hotbed frame. 
Repelling the Pest Invasion 
(Continued from page 245) 
in April, Bordeaux mixture must be used 
as a fungicide. This may be mixed with 
the arsenate of lead and the two applied 
as one spray. Indeed, it is not a bad idea 
always to add Bordeaux to any other 
spray, whatever the latter may be — save 
the lime-sulphur solution, which is a fun¬ 
gicide in itself without the addition of 
anything else. 
May adds the plant lice or aphids, which 
are likely to attack anything that grows, 
to the armies of the invading hosts. Also, 
it presents for our tender consideration the 
pleasant, slimy slug-worm—the young of 
a small, inoffensive appearing saw-fly, 
The former are sucking insects, the same 
as the scales; the latter, eating or chew¬ 
ing insects, as all “worms” are. The life- 
history of each is interesting, but is per¬ 
haps not quite so important to the defender 
of the garden as in the cases already dealt 
with. Briefly, however, I may say that the 
aphids generally hatch in early spring, 
about as the buds are bursting, or a little 
later; these “stem-mothers,” as they are 
called, bear young in prodigious numbers, 
their offspring, in turn, giving birth to suc¬ 
ceeding generations, up to a ninth and even 
an eleventh, according to some observers; 
while others declare their belief that there 
are twenty generations in a year! 
Fortunately, aphids are as easily killed 
as they are multiplied; yet be not deluded 
in the treatment of them, for it is neces¬ 
sary to reach an aphid, actually, to kill it. 
Spraying directed against them cannot be 
too thorough—and I think I may say that 
no one yet has ever succeeded in annihilat¬ 
ing them from an infested plant with one 
or two applications of the soapsuds com¬ 
monly used. If it hits them, it will shrivel 
up their soft bodies in short order; but 
there are so many to be hit, and they are 
in such difficult places — under the leaves 
invariably, with the leaves curled over and 
around them because of their extraction of 
the plant juice — that one or two are bound 
to escape. Watch for them vigilantly, 
everywhere — and count upon spraying 
roses and the tender things which they 
favor as a place of residence, twice a week 
all summer through — and perhaps a third 
time, if the season particularly favors 
them. Being of the sucking class, only a 
contact poison, such as the scale requires, 
will destroy them. Poisons applied to the 
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