American Blight, Etc.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 260, 10 March 1894, Page 4

American Blight, Etc.

The woolly aphis on apple trees and the | scale insects on apple trees are very troublesome, and anyone discovering a j remedy would be regarded as a benefactor. I It will be remembered that the old remedy was sea water applied on the bared roots — or equal portions of cham-ber-lye and water. It is well known that vines grown in salty soil will produce grapes that are not edible, because of their salt flavor, and this is proof that the juices of plants may become impregnated with salt, if not with other chemicals Many years ago an orange-grower tried salt water for the cure of the big scale on oranges and \merican blight on apple \ trees, and was quite successful. Last year he tried kainit as a manure for both theee sorts of trees Kainit contains about one-third of its weight of potash salt, and the rest is chiefly common salt. The potash is extremely beneficial for all fruit trees and vines, and he was not surprised to see the trees flourish exceedingly after the application; but he was delighted to observe that the whole of the scales and all of the American blight dropped dead from the trees.