HOUSE AND GARDEN 
374 
May, 1911 
Lighting 
Your Count 
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peas or beans, or in getting luxuriant sweet 
peas with large blossoms ? If so, it is prob¬ 
able that there is not sufficient nitrogen in 
the soil, and that it needs bacteria to tix the 
nitrogen in a form available for plant food. 
The United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture says it is worse than useless to at¬ 
tempt to grow any leguminous crop with¬ 
out being certain of the presence of the 
bacteria which enable the plants to fix free 
nitrogen. This is the reason for the famil¬ 
iar rule against growing sweet peas for 
successive years in the same soil. 
Most lawn seed is a mixture of various 
grasses and white clover. White clover is 
a legume, and the nodules forming on its 
roots will testify as to its nitrogen-gather¬ 
ing capacity. If the seed is inoculated with 
bacteria before planting, it will not only 
produce a good crop of clover in your lawn 
but will so enrich the soil that the grass 
seed will derive much benefit therefrom. 
Lawns on which the bacteria have been in¬ 
troduced assume a deep, healthy green 
color, and remain in green during the sum¬ 
mer heat when other lawns are yellowed 
and dry. 
The bacteria may be applied to the roots 
of plants already started as well as to 
seeds with marked success.. The experi¬ 
ment is well worth trying in your garden, 
as it has been thoroughly proven a wonder¬ 
ful success by practical farmers, as well as 
by many scientists and gardeners. 
The Month’s Activities 
(Continued from page 339 ) 
sistance of the gardener, survived these at¬ 
tacks, in recent years numerous fungous 
and parasitical diseases have come to the 
aid of the insects. 
One of the insect pests, cut-worms, 
was spoken of at length in the April arti¬ 
cle. There are a few others that attack 
several kinds of plants: the aphis, or 
plant-louse, potato-bug, flea-beetle, root- 
maggot, white fly and white grub. (In¬ 
sects peculiar to special sorts of plants, 
such as the asparagus-beetle, and squash- 
bug, are mentioned later under the special 
cultural directions for each vegetable.) 
The aphis, or soft-bodied, small green 
plant-louse, is not likely to get on healthy 
growing plants in the field, but often puts 
in an appearance in time of heat and 
drought, when the plants are checked. 
Kerosene emulsion or tobacco dust, espe¬ 
cially prepared for this purpose, will usual¬ 
ly succeed in driving them oft" and destroy¬ 
ing the older insects. The striped potato- 
bug, or Colorado beetle, has quite a varied 
diet for a strict vegetarian. Its first choice 
seems to be the egg-plant, and many a well 
started crop of this delicious vegetable has 
been ruined in literally a few hours by its 
unchecked depredations. To protect po¬ 
tatoes, Paris Green is still used more than 
anything else; but arsenate of lead, alone 
or in combination with Bordeaux, is now 
largely replacing it, mainly for the reasons 
that it stays on a great deal longer and 
will not burn the foliage, as Paris Green 
is apt to do. Arsenate of lead should al- 
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