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If you wanted a large bed, giving 
good foliage and fall coloring, both 
in leaf and berry, plant Euonymus 
Americana, or the European form in the 
center, then the green-leaved form of 
Berberis Vidgaris, and for the outer rim 
use Thunberg’s barberry. Plant the 
latter five feet from the common bar¬ 
berry and the balance four feet apart. 
Plant crocus, scillas, cottage tulips or 
any spring blooming bulb thickly 
among them and in the spring sow seeds 
of Phlox Drummondi, California poppy 
or Sanvitalia procumhens all over the 
bed. This is for a ground color while 
the shrubs are small. 
As a rule the soil close to a foundation 
wall is poor, generally being that exca¬ 
vated from the cellar, impregnated with 
bricks, mortar and refuse. If you want 
your shrubs to do well, you must remove 
this, and give them good soil. 
MAKING WAR ON THE MOTH PESTS 
A N energetic warfare has been waged 
^ against the moth pests in many 
cities, and the spread of this nuisance has 
made prompt action necessary to save 
the street and park trees. 
I..: The recent progress in wholesale 
spraying against the gipsy moth has 
been most striking. E. P. Felt, State 
Entomologist of New York, says in a 
recent issue of the Country Gentleman 
that the capacity of the ordinary spray¬ 
ing outfit^has been immensely increased 
by replacing the usual six horse-power 
gasoline engine, weighing some 1800 
pounds, by a ten horse-power engine 
made especially for automobiles, and 
weighing only 400 pounds. Further¬ 
more, a heavier and more powerful 
pump has been employed, the whole 
weighing no more than the usual spray¬ 
ing outfit. The machinery is mounted 
on a stout wagon, with a 400-gallon 
tank. A heavy inch and a half hose, 
some 400 to 800 feet long, with a smooth 
|-in. nozzle, is used for work in the 
woodlands. A pressure of 200 to 250 
pounds is maintained. 
The hose is handled much as though 
a fire were in progress. Ten men, at 
intervals of six or eight feet, carry the 
end of the hose, the nozzle being in 
charge of a superior, with instructions 
to keep it moving all the time. T he 
pressure is sufficient to throw the in¬ 
secticide forty to fifty feet, and the resist¬ 
ance of the air breaks it into a fine spray. 
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