Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-06 | Page 10 | In Your Own Garden

In Your Own On Garden D By MAUD l C CHEGWIDDEN 1 t TilE THE APHIDS ARRIVE Many plants in the garden are already already al al- al ready hosts to colonies of ot aphids those little plant lice which may be begreen begreen green brown or black and which suck the plant juices so that If It their activities are not stopped the thc plants will suffer and may even depart this life Pale green aphids were clustered around the tiny buds of or the roses rocs on the columbines and on n some of ol the other perennials in my garden this morning the mock mo-k orange shrub has its quota of black aphids brown ones have rented office space on the thc stems of the hollyhocks and caterpillars cater cater- pillars arc are dining hourly off the hollyhock hollyhock holly holly- hock leaves In fact my garden at present must be the aphids aphid's idea of heaven But it wont won't be that tomorrow for then I shall be busy with nicotine sulphate and the aphids will meet their doom Nicotine sulphate Is La the base aasc for a great many remedies for aphids all of which h are put up un un- un der different trade names It kills the aphids aphids' by coming in contact with their bodies so it is essential that all parts of the plant affected d mu must t be ae sprayed sprayed surfaces aswell as aswell aswell well as upper ones and that the spraying be done again in a few days to catch any aphids which escaped escaped es es- es the first time You cant can't expect to ha have hae e a nice garden unless you OU are arc equipped with means of ot combating the garden pests and a strong well made spray is the most essential thing in m my opinion A small hand spray has its uses but for the fairly large garden both time and labor will be saved i if you possess possess pos pos- sess a larger sprayer The compressed air sprayers which are slung from the thc shoulder of ot the user and which hold three or four gallons of liquid are well worth their price They have automatic nozzles and rubber extension rods and are easy to op op- erate crate I use a sprayer of this kind and it Is ls one of ot the best garden investments I ever made For the caterpillars which chew leaves eaves nicotine sulphate is useless s We must spread the surfaces of the leaves they cat eat with a nice t tempting poison and either cither Paris green or arsenate of lead serve this purpose The sprayer is still used to distribute te th the tha liquid just as it was in the case of nicotine sulphate All mat materials used in spraying are sold with attached at at- Inched recipes for making the solutions solutions solutions and if these are arc adhered to the results are certain Remember er though that every everyday's everyday's days day's dela delay in spraying will cost you something in the health and well being of or your our plants QUERIES Mrs E. E A. A R. R Salt Lake City writes I saw your request for lor a reader to tell yOU you how v she he had grown an avocado avocado seed and since I have a fine plant three years old I thought I would write my ence I tried several of these thes large larges s seeds eds in water before I could get tet tetone one to grow row but when I did I put it in a a. pot of ol earth just ordinary ordinary ordinary or or- dirt from the garden when it had a a. shoot about two inches I lon lone 0 fl It ha has grown fine since then I water vater it at the same time as my other house plants and keen it in ina a sunny window It is so liD bl big now that I am gol goin l to move it to a 1 bucket Hope this helps you Ans Thank you very much Mrs E E. E A. A R. R I hope that the reader who asked for instructions w will villi ll have as much success cs as s you OU have had