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Title: Cassell's popular gardening
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Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: London ; New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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346 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. for the larva. The latter has the property of repro- ducing the spittle if it is removed. The simplest mode of destruction is to carefully remove the froth, and the larva found in its centre or at its hase. Dustings of quicklime, soot, and sulphur also tend to check the cuckoo-spit, and every possible means should be taken by hand - picking and these dressings to clear the Roses of this unsightly and unpleasant insect and its appendages. Thrips.—Unless on very dry and poor soils, these sel- dom put in an ap- pearance out of doors. The insect, however, frequently attacks Roses under glass, especially when subjected to a high temperature and a dry atmos- phere. A dip in tobacco-liquor sa- turated with soft- soap, and a more humid atmosphere and abundance of water at the roots, will mostly make an end of Thrips on Roses. Red Spider (Acarus teHa7'ium). — Unless on dry sites or -soils, or in exceptionally hot seasons, this sel- dom seriously in- Fig. 54. jures Roses in the open air. It fre- quently, however, infests them on south walls, and especially if the borders are dry. Root-soakings and overhead deluging are the best antidotes against Red Spider; persistent dusting with sulphur, first damping the surface to make it stick, will also speedily either suffocate or poison this small but destructive insect. Unfortunately it generally accu- mulates most thickly under the leaves, where there is most difficulty in reaching it or keeping it smothered with sulphur-dust, or wet through. Thus
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Eose Scale. 1, scale of natural size 3, brandies encrusted. kept dry by the waterproof canopy of the leaves, it returns the service by eating into the parenchyma of their lower surfaces and arresting their vital functions. The water must be sprayed upwards to the spider, and the leaves be turned up to give them a full dose of sulphur Like Thrips, however. Red Spider on Roses is mostly the proof of neglect or bad treat- ment. Insect Friends. — Ants. — Yes, so have written many. Save the Rosarian from such friends! Ants are not only a real pest, not to say danger, among Roses, but they help, not hinder, the enemy to the utmost of their ca- pacity. The popular fallacy that they kill and eat Aphides has long been ex- ploded. On the con- trary, they find them legs until the winged ones appear, which can very well dispense with the Ants as carriers. The Ants make a thoroughfare of our Rose - trees, form nests among the roots, worry the bole, eat the Rose- blooms, convert our best blooms into drawing - room lounges, and not seldom startle or sting our fair sisters while they are luxuriating among the Roses. Away with them from Rose-trees ! Allure them with sugar and honey, or disgust them to a distance with guano and sulphur dressings, dose them with weak solutions of paraffin, and, when the distance is safe, scald them out root and branch with boiling water. The Lady-hird (CoccinelUana septemptmctata) is of quite a different character. This does not seem to injure the Rose in any way, and it assuredly eats. 2, larva magnified;

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