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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 1914 
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and so, before the rose expert came to 
inspire everybody, it was actually a 
working scheme, tested and found good. 
I told him about it, and he was delighted. 
Soapsuds and fungicide are used all 
the time, for plant lice are forever 
around, and fungous diseases, being in¬ 
curable, must be forestalled. But the 
poison for the chewers we do not use 
unless something is eating up the plants. 
Our three stand-bys are whale oil soap 
solution, j/2 pound of soap to 4 gallons 
of water — this amount is enough for one 
complete application in my garden, my 
allowance being about a pint to a plant; 
this is only a trifle less — arsenate of lead 
for the worms and slugs and rose bugs— 
the eaters — in the proportion of one-half 
pound to five gallons of water, and po¬ 
tassium sulphide, two ounces to four gal¬ 
lons of water, for mildew and fungous 
diseases generally. Bordeaux mixtures 
we only used at the first general clean-up 
the middle of April, for it shows and 
looks ugly on the foliage later. The 
proper strength for it is one pound to 
six gallons of water—which is more than 
enough, but I use it all up, for I have 
everything in the roses’ neighborhood 
treated to a dose, as a precaution. 
Every week we use the potassium sul¬ 
phide, and I dissolve it and mix it and go 
straight out and spray with it, for it does 
not keep. I believe it holds the aphids 
in check, as well as fungi, for they never 
get very much in evidence; but, to be 
quite certain of their never getting a 
hold, I use the soap before the potassium 
whenever I see a sign of one of these 
wretches; consequently a “stock” of soap 
dissolved is maintained, the half pound 
in one gallon of water, ready to be re¬ 
duced and used instantly any Tuesday I 
find need of it. And by setting the po¬ 
tassium to dissolve when I go out to use 
the soapsuds, I save time and get through 
the two sprayings in very little more 
time than the usual once over the plants 
takes. 
Each morning I cut roses, before 
breakfast usually. But we swore an oath 
to each other, did Polly Addicks and I, 
that we would never let anything induce 
us to do any spraying or doctoring on 
any day save the one set apart for it. 
For once you get to dabbling and potter¬ 
ing around at other times, you are a 
goner! 
So it is on Tuesdays only that we 
spray; and on Tuesdays and Fridays that 
our rosebeds are raked over and tended; 
and not a touch do they get on the days 
between. Spraying and raking over — 
tilling, I suppose, one should call it— 
and tending generally uses up about three 
hours or three and a half in the week — 
one hour being my spraying time, and 
the other two being the man’s. And I 
could do all of it myself, if he left or 
anything happened to him, in the same 
time, or very little more. For, being al¬ 
ways done on schedule — barring rain, 
when it is done the first day after that 
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