Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-24

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marry wives, not athletes. Memphis
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Enemies of Plants.
just about this season our fIower-loy-
ing friends Will need to be very watch
LaI ana give their plants the closest at
tehuon, for when they begin pushing
new shoots and are the most promising
looking IS the very time that many insect
pests are prone 10 put in an appearance
auu Ieed upon the young growth. One
can understand the disappointment it is
10 lovers of a pretty window to discover
that some insect has taken complete pos
session of the most D5S@t;fu! Of the
pants, even before the owner was aware
mat there was anything of the kind
~ bout
Whenever you notice that your plants
nave stopped growing that they have
taken on sort of Stunted appearance
especially when but Il short time back
lhey were bright and vigorous looking
depend upon ii that an injurious insect
is at work which must be combattad at
once to prevent its further development.
Plants that are kept perfectly clean
and not too warm or too dry and with
plenty of fresh air and sunlight are not
apt to be troubled with insects. But
these conditions in the house are not
always easily obtained. Some may have
ther plants in nice south window up
stairs. where there is plenty of sunlight
ana not too much dry heat, and where
they can have plenty of fresh air on all
fine days.
Others again have not n convenient
place OF this kind. Their plants are in
window, where it becomes very warm:
at time very hot dry heat. Just the
contrary TO what plants should have,
and in this kind of situation there will
be much trouble with the many insect
enemies. Constant diligence is necessary
TO eradicate them when they first appear.
Some plants are much more subject to in
sects than Others, and they are apt to
attack these first.
As soon as you find plant is infected
with insects remove il from the rest
and try to clean it, just as soon as it is
free from insects it will start to grow
again. Soft-wooded plants of quick
growth are more subject to insect attacks
than hard-wooded varieties. The hard
wooded ones, like palms and rubber
plants, can generally be kept clean by
frequent washings Plants that make
soft growth are difficult to wash and
clean, as anything like washing would
bruise and destroy the foliage These
plants are generally attacked by the
mealJ bugs coleus, lantanas and hello
trope are especially easy prey. The bugs
appear under the leaves and often in
punches in the end of the shoots. They
are very destructive and multiply with
wonderful rapidity. They are white
mealy-looking and soft. very tiny in size
If you discover them when they FIRST
appear they can easily be brushed off
with a small. soft brush. But il plants
are badly infested you should lay them
on their side and spray or syringe them
freely with alcohol diluted with water.
The solution should be rather weak, and
one or two thorough sprayings with it
will clean them off. The object in laying
the plants on their sides is to get at the
under parts of the foliage, for the mealy
bug is there.
The pest known as scale, an insect
that adheres closely to the stems aud
foliage of many ferns and hard-woOded
plants is very hard 10 destroy by amy
but a slow and tedious process of clean
ing them off by hand with a tooth brush.
Its back is shell-like acting as sort If
armor that is proof against the syringe,
and it can not be washed off, no matter
how much force of water you have, and
any solution strong enough to penetrate
the armor of the scale would destroy
the plant also,
Keep your plants carefully washed
and you will not be troubled with it,
for when by neglect the plant once be-
comes infested it is a very tedious JOB
TO clean in.-Philadelphia Record.