Show In Your Own Garden By Dy MAUD CHEGWIDDEN THE ADMIRABLE AD ANT The ant is an admirable creature full of good work and habits which mankind has frequently been adjured adjured adjured ad ad- to emulate if It he will wUl only keep his place but he wont He delights delights de de- de- de lights in harrowing the tho feelings of the amateur gardener by making nests right beneath the choicest plant in the garden and then before before be be- fore ore long that plant Is nothing but buta a fond memory The ant colony itself is not to blame blame actively actively I 1 mean mean for for the death of oC certain plants It is anI only passively that they work harm because because because be be- cause the tunnels and rooms which they mal make e underground so arcate the earth and so loosen roots that the plant expires because of oC that thaL Wo We would far rather these busy creatures put their industrious and intelligent activities in some other place far removed from our roses and delphiniums If It ant hills are In ground a foot away from any plant it is a simple matter to asphyxiate the entire colon colony a material which gives off a heavy and deadly vapor apor docs does the fell Cell work You simply wait walt until evening when you are sure all the wandering or philandering philander philander- lag ing ants arc are safely beneath the paternal paternal paternal pa pa- roof and then you sneak up and push a tablespoonful of the gray down into the ant anthill anthill anthill hill just below the surface of the ground and cover with a a. mat or piece of or carpet or sacking The fumes of oC the being heavier than air penetrate Into all aU corners of the ant hill and death will bo be painless and certain But when the ants have actually made their home beneath roots of plants you must resort to other methods of at destruction Many kinds of ant poison are on the market and no doubt all aU have much to recommend rec them If It your garden is large and the ants are arc numberless the cost of providing them with the invitingly sweet poison is something to be reckoned with Besides I have found that some of these so- so called poisons apparently made little little lit lit- tle tIc difference in the numbers of the ant millions If the poison is carried down to the queen ant the rest of the colony leaves but in m my garden the queen always seems too wise to partake of ot the fatal dose and her satellites remain I have found this to be an effective tive if somewhat slow method of ot catching ants in flower beds Vcr Very close to the colony sink a pint fruit bottle in the soil so that its rim is level with the surface of the soil soU Thousands of at the little creatures will wm get down to tho the bottom of the thc jar and because of the smooth glazed sides will be unable to crawl out again They will bo ho trapped Then you can deal with them as you will Keep emptying empting and replacing the he jar and you ou will have an astonIshing astonishing aston aston- harvest of ants Another way to kill ants when the hm hill Is not In close proximity to flowers Is to pour kerosene down the ho tunnels Some people also swear by boiling water Really it isn't a problem at all except when the colony colony colony col col- col- col ony has pitched its tents exactly beneath beneath beneath be be- neath a choice plant QUERIES A. A A. A B. B Mid Midvale vale writes writs Please name tho the plant which was as on this thi place when wo we bou bought ht it We Se e enjoy your our articles each evening e very cry much Ans It It is cotoneaster horizon horizon- talis Thank you |