FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES
FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES.
The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts:
(1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants;
(2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides.
Of the first the...
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FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES
FIGHTING PLANT ENEMIES.
The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts:
(1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants;
(2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides.
Of the first the most useful is the covered frame.
It consists usually of a wooden box, some eighteen
inches to two feet square and about eight high, covered with glass, protecting cloth, mosquito netting
or mosquito wire.
The first two coverings have, of course, the additional advantage of retaining heat
and protecting from cold, making it possible by their use to plant earlier than is otherwise safe.
They
are used extensively in getting an extra early and safe start with cucumbers, melons and the other
vine vegetables.
Simpler devices for protecting newly-set plants, such as tomatoes or cabbage, from the cut-worm, are
stiff, tin, cardboard or tar paper collars, which are made several inches high and large enough to be
put around the stem and p
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