Show I 1 BACK YARD FARMER interesting pointers on gardening for the city man or suburbanite WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN advice by an expert on an agricultural matters garden and plant pasta dwarf tomatoes Toma toca flower bed bad notes by PROF JOHN WILLARD BOLTE practically nil all of tho the dom domestic ostle gardon garden posts peats can bo be ailed l llod without dif faculty by the proper treat treatment mont yet taw few people seem to this ihla and everywhere wo we seo sea plants and house lowers flowers struggling for existence and supporting a host of parasites when just a little intelligent treatment would turn these plants from sickly weaklings wea klings into hardy producers some of tho the commonest posts together with the proper treatment to eliminate them follow aphis or green lice la Is a parasite about ono one half the size of at tho the head of at a pin green in color colo and shows but little activity they are found particularly on the that la Is the vines of 0 the cucumber family and on all sorts of house plants if ants anto aro are present on your outside plants look out for these green lice they are arc sometimes called ants cows for f a r the ants seem to tend them stroking them with their feelers when the aphis gives out a sweet secretion of which the ants are fond the treatment for green lice ilice Is tobacco tea I 1 thich la Is readily made by bollini boiling tobacco stems in water spray the plants with a spray gun three or tour four times at two or three day intervals red spider tho the red rd lu its a lit ht tie red bug it moves rapidly over he ha plants merely a spraying with tobacco tm tea or plain clear water will get rid of this pest its size Is about the same as the green lice striped beetle the striped beetle Is one eighth of an inch long and the fact that it can fly makes it a danger to any garden it Is found in the sol at tho the base bane of the stems of the cu cur bits it kills the young vines wit but after the vines begin to send off runners they are safe from this pest i the treatment Is bowd powdered ered white hellebore helli bore scattered around the hills bills and on the plants or the plants can bo be sprayed with water and the hellebore dusted on or a suspension solution may be made and the plants sprayed Bp rayed another treatment Is air slacked lime in suspension solution or cow kanuf manure e plastered over the ground near the vines cut worms may attack any plant in tho the garden cutting it off under tho the ground they have a special liking for peas and beans it if young tender plants die quickly or you find that the plants from seed are not appearing above ground look cut cutworms worms mix one pound of at bran with enough water to make a dough add a tablespoonful of some come and another tablespoonful of white arsenic mix well and scatter a little about the plants the cut worms will eat cat this and die potato bugs this familiar pest peat c can an be quickly gotten rid of by spraying the potato plants with a suspension solution of paris green spray two or three times to kill the young paris green contains arsenic and in using this or the white arsenic caro care should be used as it Is exceedingly poisonous tomato worms if you find your tomato plants are losing their leaves leavea look out for these worms they are anywhere from three to six inches in length and as large as three fourths of an inch in diameter it is seldom that hat t more than two or three appear in the garden at ono one time and they are quickly killed by hand for cabbage worms dust tho the plants with powdered hellebore before the heads form later dust the hellebore on the outside leaves as the worms A little attention to getting rid of 1 arden pests will well repay in tho the I 1 increased production of the garden |