The orchard, lawn and garden guide: a ready reference guide for the growing of vegetables, shade and fruit trees, flowers and shrubs, lawn making, pruning and spraying, etc. by Reed George H

Author:Reed, George H
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horticulture
Publisher: [Lynchburg, Va., Press of Brown-Morrison Co.
Published: 1921-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

found in numbers. This pest seems to thrive best on evergreens, especially Arborvitea, although I have noticed numbers of them feeding on Willow, Mulberry, Maple, and Oak, nearly defoliating the trees completely.

Probably the best way to destroy this pest is to hand pick the bags, duing the winter months.. But on evergreens this is more difficult and spraying with arsenate of lead seems to be the only remedy.

I have found the following solution effective in controlling and in several cases completely destroying the bagworm on Arborvitea. Apply at least 2 times during the summer season. (Late spring and early fall.)

Arsenate of Lead Paste 1 pound

Water 30 gallons

Whale Oil Soap ^ pound

A power spray pump that will develop enough force to spread in a fine mist over the tree, is the only apparatus that can be used successfully. Hand sprays are not effective for this work.

BLIGHT

Pear Blight. This is a much dreaded, and serious bacterial disease. It is carried from other blighted trees by ants, lice, caterpillars and bees to the tender spurs and buds of pear, apple, quince, plum and other trees. Some orchards have been completely destroyed within a short time by blight.

Watch for blight in your trees in the spring. If leaves droop and look withered as if scalded by hot water, lose no time, but get busy at once. Blight attacks the tender shoots and water sprouts, and if tmchecked, will shrivel the bark on the tree, causing cankers and death to the limb, as soon as the limb becomes girdled with the blight.

BLIGHT CONTROL

Procure a paddle about 8 inches long and on the end tack a piece of cloth, (several layers thick) and saturate the cloth with carbolic acid. With a sharp knife or pruning shears cut off the blighted twigs 5 or 6 inches below the blight, and wipe the blades of your tools off with the acid soaked rag on the end of your paddle. Disinfect all open cankers and wounds with Corrosive Sublimate 1-1000. Wipe your knife on acid rag. everytime a twig is cut. Gather and burn every twig and limb cut off. Examine your plum, peach and apple for ojpen cankers and disinfect thoroughly.

By using the above method of blight control, the writer saved an orchard of 700 Keiffer peais and 100 apple trees during a blight epidemic in Craig County, Va., in 1910.

SPRAY FORMULAS Black Leaf 40

For Thrips, Leaf Hopper, Wooly Aphis, and all sucking insects: One ounce to 8 gallons of water.

One-half pound laundry or whale-oil soap added to the above will help spread the spray and add to its efficiency.

Bordeaux Mixture

Copper sulphate 4 pounds

Lime (Stone) 4 pounds

Water 50 gallons

The method of making Bordeaux mixture consists in dissolving the required amount of copper sulphate in an equal number of gallons of water, the copper sulphate being placed in a sack and suspended in a vessel. The amount of lime required may be slowly slacked in another vessel and then

brought up to a thick milk with a known quantity of water.

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