HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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is not so strong, and, unlike the Bordeaux, 
it must be used immediately after mixing. 
The best way to get the Bordeaux for use 
in small quantities is to buy it ready pre¬ 
pared and dilute it as needed. The am- 
moniacal copper carbonate solution may 
be made as follows: Dilute 2 fluid ounces 
of ammonia in 15 ounces of water; mix 
2 teaspoonfuls of copper carbonate with 
enough water to make a paste; mix the 
two together until thoroughly dissolved; 
then add two gallons of water to dilute to 
spraying strength. This will make a con¬ 
venient amount to use in a hand-size com¬ 
pressed-air sprayer. Use it the same day 
as mixed. 
One of the greatest enemies of young 
plants and new shoots is the common 
brown cut worm, familiar to every body 
who sets out cabbage or tomato plants in 
the vegetable garden. Wherever a young 
flower stalk is found half eaten through, 
and as a consequence shriveled up, a care¬ 
ful search in the dirt about the plant will 
usually reveal this fellow curled up and 
“playing possum” ; a slight pinch just back 
of his head is the easiest wav of disposing 
of him. If the cut worms appear in large 
numbers use poisoned bran mash and put 
it about the plants they are likely to attack 
late in the afternoon. A teaspoonful of 
Paris green, or two of arsenate of lead 
powder, a tablespoonful of molasses and 
a quart or so of bran, or a quantity of 
freshly cut grass will serve as a bait. 
When plants that seem to be otherwise 
healthy and unattacked by any other in¬ 
sects on the foliage fail quickly, the trou¬ 
ble is likely to be a borer or a white grub 
or wire worm working at the roots. Take 
the plant up carefully and examine it. A 
strong nicotine solution, tobacco dust 
spread thickly about the base of the plant 
and washed in with the watering can, or 
tea made of water and tobacco stems, will 
rid the soil of most of these things. To 
save individual plants make a hole several 
inches deep with a dibble and drop in a 
few drops of bisulphide of carbon, filling 
the hole up quicklv. 
The specific remedies which have been 
mentioned will be found effective in most 
cases if used properly. But the gardener 
must always remember that his greatest 
safeguard lies in having his plants in 
robust, healthy growth. If they are at¬ 
tacked it will always pay to stimulate 
plant growth as well as to fight the insects, 
thus enabling the plants to withstand or 
recover from the resulting check. A hand¬ 
ful of guano, or of tankage and bone meal, 
mixed in and about the plant will often 
serve to enable it to recuperate rapidly, 
where otherwise it might have been per¬ 
manently injured. An ounce or two of 
nitrate of soda dissolved in hot water and 
diluted with two or three gallons of water 
and applied with a watering can will serve 
as an effective stimulant; it should not, 
however, be applied when the ground is 
very dry without first watering the plant 
with plain water. 
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—at the cost of enameled iron 
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It costs about the same as 
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and install. 
The “POMONA” fits in a recess and 
is built in the tiling at back and both 
ends. Faucets and waste may be 
placed at the back or at either end. 
“PONTIAC” is made to build into 
either right or left corner. The com- 
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The “PUTNAM” is built into either 
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