HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1911 _ 
ways be used to keep the beetles off young- 
tomato and egg plants. Where there are 
but a few plants to be watched, nothing is 
better than the old-fashioned hand-pick¬ 
ing, but it must be done thoroughly, and 
all eggs, which are usually bright yellow 
and laid on the under side of the leaves, 
taken off. 
The flea-beetle is a small, hard-shelled 
jumping-jack which attacks turnips, 
young cabbage and cauliflower plants, po¬ 
tatoes, etc. Bordeaux mixture has some 
effect in stopping it, and kerosene emul¬ 
sion is good. Plaster dusted on the leaves 
affords a mechanical protection. The root- 
maggot, attacking cabbage, cauliflower, 
onions and other crops, is a small white 
maggot which gets into the roots and 
seems to sap all the strength of the plant 
even before it has done much eating, caus¬ 
ing the plants to wilt down in the heat of 
day. Rotation of crops and well limed 
soil are the best preventives. Strong 
lime-water poured into the soil about the 
roots of plants, first scraping away an 
inch or so of the surface soil, has often 
checked them, but not before considerable 
damage is done; top dressing of nitrate of 
soda or guano, with cultivation and hill¬ 
ing, will sometimes give the plants extra 
stimulation enough to withstand the at¬ 
tacks of the maggot. The white fly, al¬ 
though a bad pest under glass, seldom 
does much damage out-of-doors. On the 
first appearance spray thoroughly with 
kerosene emulsion, and then keep the 
plants well dusted with strong tobacco 
dust. The white grub or “muck-worm” 
sometimes chews off the roots of plants 
and occasionally injures grass plots and 
lawns. Dig them out and kill them, and 
replant or resod. Fall plowing and con¬ 
stant cropping, in the garden, will prevent 
their getting a start. 
SPECIAL CULTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE 
VARIOUS GARDEN CROPS. 
For convenience, we may class the gar¬ 
den crops roughly into three sections:— 
the root crops, such as beets and carrots; 
the leaf crops, such as cabbage and lettuce; 
and the fruit crops, such as the melons and 
tomatoes. This classification is merely 
for convenience in giving cultural direc¬ 
tions, so we need not heed the howl of the 
botanist at finding onions among the root 
crops, and cauliflower among the leaf 
crops. 
The Root Crops: This group includes 
beet, carrot, kohlrabi, leek, onion, par¬ 
snip, potato, radish, salsify and turnip. 
All of these are what may be termed cool- 
weather plants. With the exception of 
the potato, they can be planted as early in 
spring as the ground can be got into good 
shape, and are sowed in drills, 12 to 18 
inches apart, where they are to remain, 
and thinned out to the proper distance in 
the rows after they are well up. They like 
a very rich, deep, fine loam, and the soil 
can hardly be made too rich. With the ex¬ 
ception of the onion-maggot and the po¬ 
tato-bug, they have hardly any enemies. 
All will be benefited by one or two top- 
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