INSECTS ON INDOOR PLANTS.
A horticultural writer says : — Red spiders prcfei a warm, dry atmosphere, and mealy bugs delight in a moist one ; but both pests, togethei with green fly, thrips and scale are grateful for a footing anywhere, lied spiders must be washed oil, mealy bugs and scales rubbed off, with a small stiir brush, or washed oft" with a sponge ; green fly and thrips will be desttoyed by dipping the plants in tobacco water. Jf you imagine that inkling your plants with water will Kill led spideis you are mistaken, and if you tb»nk fumigating plants is i asily practicable in a dwelling house, I think you will bo mistaken again. Uuliach or Dalmatian in&eet powder is a good insecticide when du&ted on by a bellows, but almost harmless when s.catteied aroui.d without being dusted into the atmosphei?. Homo soot mixed in the water you us i lor your plant-* will expel or kill any >vm m» that may Le in the boil, and act us a feitilizer, too. Clean water heated to 120 or V2b degrees is a good insecticide so far a? aphides and young thiipsiiiu conco-iiedj diptheplanta into \t.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 5
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194INSECTS ON INDOOR PLANTS. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 289, 11 August 1888, Page 5
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