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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1915 
HILLSIDE 
WITHOUT 
FOLIAGE IS A 
PITIFUL SIGHT 
A HOME 
without shrubbery, without a garden, 
looks as desolate and "as cheerless in the 
eyes of your friends and neighbors, as this 
hillside looks to you. 
BEAUTY and PERMANENCE 
in shrubs, trees and plants depends upon health just as 
much as in human beings. All our stock is healthy. 
We will appreciate it if, when writing for our 1915 catalog, you will 
ask for advice on your planting problem. 
EVERGREENS 
70 VARIETIES 6 in. to 16 ft. 
Plant Now for Immediate Effect 
Our large business in Evergreens is due to their 
splendid root growth, insuring successful trans¬ 
planting and long life for the trees. Make your 
selection early as many are specially priced at 
wholesale rates. One customer has purchased 
51,000 in 10 years. We guarantee satisfaction. 
IRISH ROSES 
The Blue Ribbon Winners 
of the Rose World. 200 true-to-name vari¬ 
eties in 2, 3 and 4 year sizes, also^Tree Roses, 
climbers, Everblooming, etc. \ ^ « -4 
Splendid lot of standard and dwarf Fruit 
Trees, Hardy Perennials, Vines, Shrubs and 
Deciduous Trees. 
Send today for illustrated catalog, a cyclopedia 
of information. Special prices on large orders. 
ROSEDALE NURSERIES 
S. G. Harris Box B, Tarrytown, N. Y. 
Five young birds were 
reared in this box last 
Spring. Since then they 
have eaten 100,000 
harmful insects, but the 
box their parents chose 
was a 
HOWES BIRD HOUSE 
Fully illustrated list (H) 
of the famous Howes 
Bird Attractors free to 
anyone.Thousands in use 
Prices, 15 cents to $50.00 
MAPLEWOOD BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. Stamford, Connecticut 
Endorsed by well-known writers as a most effective remedy for 
the green aphis. 
APHINE has a world-wide reputation among the foremost pro¬ 
fessional and commercial horticulturists as a garden spray for 
Roses, Sweet Peas, Asters and other flowering plants, vegetables 
and fruits, for the destruction of the aphis and all sapsucking 
i nsects which infest plant life. 
APHINE is also highly recommended for cleansing conser¬ 
vatory and house plants and destroying such insects as green, 
black and white fly, mealy bug, red spider and soft scale, which 
are found on indoor plants. 
APHINE is used by diluting with water at various strengths, 
according to directions on each can. It is easy to apply— 
economic in cost—most effective in results. 
Gills, 25c.; Pint, 65c,; Quart, $1.00; Gallon, $2,50. 
Insist that your dealer supplies you with APHINE and not some - 
thing that he may offer as “ Just as good.” If you cannot obtain 
APHINE in your community , we will deliver it to you from our 
nearest agent , at the above quoted prices , in pint , quart or gallon 
quantity. 
APHINE MANUFACTURING CO. 
Geo. A. Burniston, President M. C. Ebel, Treasurer 
Manufacturers of 
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS 
Madison, New Jersey 
Cut this advertisement out and file with your garden reference for 
..id .* future use.> >r , & M 
Old English Garden Seats 
And other Artistic Garden Accessories, including 
Garden Houses, Arbors, Pergolas, Treillage, Gates, 
Rose Temples, in painted and rustic. 
For Catalog of many designs address 
North Shore Ferneries Co. 
BEVERLY. MASS. 
New York Showroom Craftsman Bldg., E. 39 th St. 
plant for them to eat never get to their 
insides at all, for their bills reach fairly 
deep down into the tissue and they draw 
the juices from well below the danger 
line. 
Slugs, on the other hand, are poisonable, 
just as the coddling moth and the curculio. 
Slugs eat, instead of drink. Indeed, they 
eat so energetically that we may hear them 
if they are very abundant, as the second 
brood sometimes is, in July! If you doubt 
it, go out and listen some time. A little 
faint sound like fine rain falling on leaves 
will reward such investigation — if the 
slugs are numerous. And this is, indeed, 
the chewing of the many tiny mouths. 
Late in May the egg laying is at its height, 
from then on a little way into June. 
Earlier eggs are laid, but it is supposed 
these do not hatch to any great extent 
owing to unfavorable weather conditions. 
About two weeks is required for incuba¬ 
tion ; then out comes the larva, nearly 
white, with a yellow-brown head, if it is 
a pear slug, and free at first from slime. 
Immediately this exudes, however, from 
the pear slug — the rose slug is without it— 
and it is shortly well coated and truly a 
“slug,” eating away at the upper surface 
of the leaf. 
It is not necessary to poison these crea¬ 
tures, for they are so soft-bodied that the 
soapsuds used against the aphids will 
usually finish them off as well. Some 
recommend only a strong spray of water 
to be thrown against rose bushes, but this 
I have never found to be sufficient to in¬ 
sure success. Arsenate of lead kills them, 
poisoning their food; but one objection to 
using this on ornamental growth is that it 
shows as a milky deposit on foliage and is 
therefore unsightly until a rain washes the 
sprayed plants. My own plan is to use the 
soapsuds on roses and any ornamental 
thing that may be troubled, but to let the 
arsenate of lead take care of them when 
they are present on other than ornamental 
growth. 
June brings nothing new save the rose- 
bug — and he is impossible ! This we might 
just as well acknowledge right at the start. 
Tough and resistent both inside and out, 
poison that can be applied without injury 
to the plant, either its leaves or its bloom, 
will work so slowly that he will have done 
his damage before death overtakes him. 
Moreover, there are such endless hordes 
of him, and he travels so readily that a 
plant freed from him to-day may be as 
thickly covered to-morrow as ever it was, 
with new recruits. Daily applications of 
arsenate would be necessary, to feed and 
kill off the daily newcomers. 
Hand-picking in the rose garden, rigor¬ 
ously followed up every morning, early, 
during the six weeks or so that these 
beetles are in evidence, will insure com¬ 
parative freedom from damage to flowers. 
But it is tedious work, for they hide 
cleverly in the very depths of flower and 
bud, and are not discovered without care¬ 
ful search nor dislodged without vicious 
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