HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, ign 
261 
In addition to 
this treatment, 
where the 
worms have 
once got a 
start, the bee¬ 
tles may be de- 
stroyed by 
sp re ading a 
sheet around 
and beneath 
the tree, and 
every day or so 
shaking or jar¬ 
ring them off 
into it, as de¬ 
scribed below. 
Do not spray 
peaches. For 
the curculio, 
within a few 
days after the 
blossoms are 
off, take a large 
sheet of some 
cheap material 
to use as a 
catcher. For 
FRUIT 
PEST 
REMEDY 
TIMES TO APPLY AND WHEN 
Apple 
Apple-scab . 
Apple-maggot or 
Railroad worm. 
Borer . 
Codlin moth .... 
Cankerworm ... 
Tent-caterpillar.. 
Blister-mite __ 
Bud-moth . 
Bordeaux 5*5-50, or summer lime-sulphur 
spray . 
Pick up and destroy all fallen fruits. 
Dig out or kill with wire; search for in fall 
and spring . 
Arsenate of lead, 4 in 100; or Paris green, 
1 in 100 . 
Burlap bands on trunk for traps during July 
Same as above . 
Same as above, also wipe out or burn nests.. 
Lime-sulphur wash; kerosene emulsion (di¬ 
lute 5 times) or miscible oil (i in io gal.).. 
Arsenate of lead or Paris green. 
3.—b B 0 —a B F—f 14 d. 
(See key below.) 
2. — a B F — f 20 d. 
Late fall or early spring. 
2.—When leaves appear, b B 0 . 
Cherry 
Leaf blight . 
Curculio . 
Black-knot . 
Fruit-rot . 
Bordeaux 5-5-50 . 
Arsenate of lead, 8 in 100. Curculio catcher 
(see Plum) . 
Cut out and burn at once (see Plum). 
Pick before fully ripe. Spread out in cool, 
airy room . 
4.—b B O—a calyx closes—f 15 d—f 15 d. 
1.—a B F. 
3 times a week. 
Peach 
Borer . 
Yellows. 
Curculio . 
Brown-rot. 
Leaf-curl . 
Dig out or kill with wire . 
Pull out and burn trees—replant. 
Do not spray. Catch on sheets (see Plum). . 
Summer lime-sulphur; open pruning; pick 
rotten fruit . 
Bordeaux 5-5-50; lime-sulphur wash. 
3. — When fruit is half grown—f 10 d — f 10 d. 
1. — b buds swell, fall or early spring. 
Pear 
Blight . 
Scab . 
Blister-mite .... 
Cut out diseased branches; clean out sores; 
disinfect with corrosive sublimate, 1 in 1000; 
paint over . 
Bordeaux 5-5-50, or summer sulphur (see 
Apple) . 
2. — b B 0 —a B 0 — f 14 d. 
Plum 
Leaf-blight . 
Fruit-rot . 
Black-knot . 
Curculio . 
Bordeaux or summer sulphur . 
Same; also thin fruits so as not to touch 
(see Cherry) also have neighboring trees 
cleaned up . 
Jar down on sheets stretched beneath trees 
and destrov . 
1.—After fruits set. 
a B F—cool mornings—3 times a week. 
Any 
San Jose scale.. 
Oyster-shell scale 
Lime-sulphur wash, kerosene emulsion, 5 times 
diluted; miscible oil, 1 in 10 gals. 
Kerosene emulsion . 
Late fall or early spring. 
May or June, when whitish lice appear. 
a — After. b—Before. d — Days. f — ‘Follow up in. B—Blossoms. O — Open. F — Fall. 
Remember that the efficiency of spraying must depend upon the thoroughness in applying the 
spray. Cover every inch!—even if you have to go over trees two or three times at each appli¬ 
cation. With proper nozzles and force, on good days, once should be sufficient 
large orchards 
there is a con¬ 
trivance of this 
sort, mounted 
on a wheelbar¬ 
row frame, but 
for the home 
orchard a cou¬ 
ple of sheets 
laid upon the 
ground, or one 
with a slit from 
one side to the 
center, will an¬ 
swer. If four 
sharp - pointed 
stakes are fas¬ 
tened to the 
corners, and 
three or four 
stout hooks and 
eyes are placed 
to re-unite the 
slit after the 
sheet is placed 
about the tree, 
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What Planting Does for a House 
IN THE INEVITABLE HASTE TO SECURE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS IN YOUR PLANTING, DO NOT 
OVERLOOK THE PERMANENT THINGS IN FAVOR OF THE QUICKER-GROWING TEMPORAL ONES 
by Grace Tabor 
Photographs by N. R. Graves, E. S. Bates and others 
W HATEVER else it may do besides, planting first of all turns 
a house into a home. This is surely its first great func¬ 
tion. Who does not remember in childhood, certain houses that 
were extravagantly admired and others that were cordially de¬ 
tested? Were not the former “snugly” in the midst of flowers, 
with Missouri currant—oh ! de¬ 
lectable scent of paradise and 
fairyland commingled — hovering 
near? And were the others—the 
hated places — not devoid of these 
things absolutely? Surely they 
were—as bare as a billiard ball of 
any kind of planting. Or, as the 
plaint went then, with small noses 
tip-tilted, they had “no bushes in 
the yard.” 
And how many places now have 
no “bushes in the yard!” More 
now than ever, it seems ; and what 
a sense of impermanence, of mov¬ 
ing-vans, such places hold. The 
unplanted house is eloquent of flit- 
tings — of the temporary occupant, 
the rent payer who reasons that 
he will not long abide — maybe — 
and therefore why sow for an¬ 
other to reap? Nasturtiums and sweet peas, perhaps, yes—but 
foxgloves and hollyhocks, peonies and bridal wreath? Never! 
Leave, then, the nasturtium and the sweet pea vine for him 
who tarries but a summer. They serve him well and, doing this, 
are not to be despised; but something else will serve the “home” 
better. Indeed the very word has 
a sound of fixedness and perma¬ 
nence that demands permanence 
and dignity in all that compose it. 
The craze for immediate effects 
is, of course, a recognition of this 
demand. The feeling is instinctive 
that without planting that makes 
a decided “front” there is a vital 
lack. But the craze defeats the 
fulfillment of the craving which 
prompts it, because it leads to so 
much temporary planting, in the 
hope of securing the “immediate 
effect.” We are tired of mush¬ 
room abodes, redolent of their 
newness ; how refreshing the quiet 
old house, with its sweet old gar¬ 
den, is. “Go to,” say we, “we will 
have one, right away,” and out we 
go to set about it. Thus in the 
Vines will bring immediate results, but they are not the 
only essentials 
