Proyen Berry Plants i i KNOTT’S BERRY PLACE / i Trees and Vines 
very cheap insurance. Even if you were 
g'oing’ to have no redberry trouble, which 
you cannot tell at spraying time, the 
good that the lime-sulphur spray would 
do in helping to control rose scale, thrips, 
and fungus diseases, would well warrant 
the small cost. This applies to all varie¬ 
ties of bush and vine berries, including 
Youngberries, Boysenberries, dewberries, 
raspberries, loganberries and all varie¬ 
ties of blackberries. The exceptions to 
this rule are Advance Blackberries, 
Mountain Blacks and Rogers Dewberries, 
all of which are evergreen, for which 
I'eason, it would not be advisable to use 
a dormant strength spray as recom¬ 
mended above. Also, all of these varie¬ 
ties are so very early that none has ever 
been attacked by red-berry mite. 
To control the white scale (rose 
scale), which gets on the canes near the 
ground and sometimes becomes quite 
bad, spray during the dormant season 
with one of the refined lubricating oil 
sprays as is used on citrus trees. Use at 
the rate of 1^2 gallons to 100 gallons 
of water and keep it well mixed. Even 
if the rose scale is hardly bad enough 
to justify an oil spray during the dor¬ 
mant season, still it may pay to spray, 
for while you are killing the scale you 
may clean up enough thrips to prevent 
trouble later in the season. 
Should thrips or red spider show up 
any time during the season spray at 
once with oil using one gallon to one 
hundred gallons of water. Or if you pre¬ 
fer you can use Black Leaf 40 and 
Whale oil soap up until fruiting time. 
In this case use one pint Black Leaf 40 
and 3 pounds of Whale oil soap to one 
hundred gallons of water. 
It is very much better to prevent an 
attack of thrip or red spider than to 
try to control it after it has come. Red 
spider or thrip do their damage while 
the crop is maturing or being picked, 
and it is exceedingly difficult to control 
at that time, because the vines are cov¬ 
ered with leaves and fruit, which makes 
it impossible to use strong materials or 
to get complete coverage. But in order 
for these pests to be present in such 
great number at fruit time, we have 
come to the conclusion that they had to 
be building up over a period of several 
months. If this is the case an ounce of 
prevention in the spring is worth pounds 
of cure in the summer. These insects 
often winter over on the old leaves, 
trash, weeds or grass under the vines. 
Now, when you are spraying your vines 
or bushes with lime-sulphur, for red- 
berry mite just as the leaf buds start in 
the spring, if you will do a very thor¬ 
ough job and will also spray the ground 
and weeds under the vines, we believe 
you will clean up enough insects and 
eggs to go a long way towards prevent¬ 
ing a serious attack of red spider or 
thrip at fruit time. 
If strawberry fields are attacked by 
aphis dust at once with nicotine dust. 
Should red spider appear, spray with 
any good light oil spray, using one to 
one and a half gallons to IDO gallons of 
water. This oil spray will also kill aphis 
if both aphis and red spider should come 
at the same time. The important part 
and the hard part with strawberries is 
to put the spray on with enough force 
to whip the leaves around so that the 
spray reaches the under side of all of 
the leaves. 
Sprays for the Home Garden —For 
redberry which prevents blackberries 
from ripening uniformly. If only a small 
planting is to be sprayed get one quart 
of liquid lime-sulphur from your feed 
store and mix it with two and one-half 
gallons of water or get half pound of 
dry powdered lime-sqlphur and mix it 
with three gallons of water. This can 
be applied with any kind of a small 
sprayer. The important part is to com¬ 
pletely wet the vines or bushes all over 
and to apply it at just the right time, 
which is just when the leaf buds (not 
blossom buds) are commencing to open. 
If you have been very seriously both¬ 
ered the past season by your berries not 
ripening, give them a second spraying, 
consisting of one-quarter pound of wet- 
able sulphur to five gallons of water 
when in full blossom. 
For white scale (rose scale) near the 
base of the canes, use one-half pint of 
good oil spray, such as is used on citrus 
trees, to 3 gallons of water. Apply this 
in the winter while the vines are dor¬ 
mant. 
If strawberries should be attacked by 
aphis (small green plant lice), dust well 
with Nico Dust. If strawberries are at¬ 
tacked by red spider (an exceedingly 
small red or yellow mite on the under 
side of leaves) spray thoroughly with 
one of the light oil sprays. The hard 
part and the important part is to get 
force enough to whip the leaves around 
so that the spray thoroughly covers the 
underside of all of the leaves. Sometimes 
one or two spoons full of sulphur scat¬ 
tered close around the plants on a hot 
day will create fumes enough to kill the 
spiders. 
If any other conditions should arise 
which require spraying, we would sug¬ 
gest that you write for the bulletins 
listed below on this page and also take 
the matter up with your local horticul¬ 
tural commissioner. If at any time we 
can be of any help we will be glad to 
do so. 
To Purchasers of Fruit Trees 
and Grape Vines 
We are berry specialists, and are glad 
to ship berry plants anywhere. We do 
not ship trees and grapevines, as we 
feel that you can buy these more satis¬ 
factorily from your local nurseryman. 
The expense of packing trees and grape¬ 
vines for shipment is so great that very 
likely your local nurseryman can sell 
them to you just as cheaply, and pos¬ 
sibly cheaper, than we can pack them 
and ship them to you. 
If you live within reach of our nur¬ 
sery, we will be glad to supply you with 
fruit trees, walnuts, grapevines or other 
plants. Both the quality of our stock 
and our prices will appeal to you. 
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