Roosevelt Standard | 1917-08-22 | Page 6 | Horticultural Points

0 n sint FIGHT WOOLLY APHIS PEST young trees are particularly tible to injury kerosene amui emul i slon sion Is best bert remedy the woolly splits aphis is worse in soma parts of the country than in others 11 I 1 attacks both the branches and the toots coots and either dwarfs or destroys the tree young trees in nursery or orchard are anre particularly susceptible to injury F kerosene Cern sene emulsion Is the best remedy so far offered take one half pound of laundry soap two gallons of kerosene and one ballod of water dissolve the soap in the full amount of water and when this solution Is boiling hot remove from the fire end and add the kerosene stir the bie mixture violently by driving it through a force pump back into the vessel until it becomes a creamy mass that vill not separate this requires from five to ten minutes this stock solution Is diluted with nine parts of water for spraying when the aphis attacks the roots the part earth h should be scraped away to a B depth of f several inches around the tree and kerosene emulsion used gilb orally brally diluted with 12 parts of water y another excellent remedy for the root Is tobacco spread the pie stems thick over the he roots and cover with h