Evening star., 1917-05-01
EXPERT TO INSPECT
PLANS FOR GARDENS
H. M. ConoIIy to Review Work
of Demonstrators Tomorrow.
Advice to Amateurs.

| The schedule Of visits to demonstration
gardens to be made tomorrow by H M
Conolly, expert OF the Department OF
Agriculture, covers the northeast and
portion of the southeast sections OF
| the city.
| Mr.. Conolly will be at 46th street and
Dean avenue northeast at 10 am. 44tn
street and Sheriff road northeast at II
o'clock, 18th and Rosedale streets north
east at 1890 o'clock, 7th and G streets
| southeast at 2 o'clock and 5th and L
streets southeast at $3.50 o'clock.
Amateur Gardeners Warned.
ut is necessary for every person
who is caring for a garden to count
upon the presence of plant diseases and
| insects"
This is the admonition of Mr.. Con-
oily, expert adviser on gardens from
the Department of Agriculture. who to-
day gave the following advice to gar
deners:
Sometimes these pests do little dam
age, but more often they will ruin the
crop If not tended to. The wise plan
is for all gardeners to provide them
selves with materials for protecting 6
the plants AN ounce of prevention is
| worth a pound of cure goes the old
saying. and this saying is certainly
| true when you are dealing with plant
enemies. A person insures his prop
erty against fire. whether he expects
| 1t to burn or not, and it is good policy
| to spray a number of the crops in the
| garden as a precaution against pests
which may or may not come. Potatoes
arc pretty sure to be infected with
potato bugs tomatoes very seldom pass
through a season without euffern
from leaf blight; cabbages are usually
attacked by the cabbage worms or the
plant lice, and striped beetles are often
q dreaded pest to the cucumbers.
Suggestion for Spray.
Many plants Of the garden can be
kept reasonably free from disease and
insects if they are sprayed with a COM
bination spray of Bordeaux mixture
and arsenate of lead. This spray should
be applied at intervals of two or three
weeks.
Tomato worms and cabbage worms
may be picked from a few plants and
thus kept In check. Cutworms may be
kept from newly set plants by setting
paper cylinders into the ground around
the plants.
TT is well in this place to warn per-
sons that the substances used in spray
ing are poisons, and. therefore, should
be handled with care, SO that children
or animals do not have access to them.
TT is more satisfactory when dealing
with any pests of the garden to know
just what the trouble is and how best
to control 1t. My advice would be for
all gardeners when they have any
trouble to get in touch with me. SO that
I may advise the best remedies. or to
communicate direct with the bureau of
entomology, United States Department
of Agriculture when the trouble is an
insect. or to the Office of truck crop
disease. United States Department of
Agriculture. when the trouble is a
plant disease.
Advises Prompt Action.
'Den't wait. however, until the crop
is ruined before asking advice, but get
busy as soon as the plants appear to be
diseased or injured.
"A letter will reach me at 3O4 Star
building, or the question may be taken
up when l visit the demonstration gar
den that is most convenient for you to
reach