Garden foes : insect, animal and fungoid pests injurious to fruit and vegetable crops, hardy plants, trees, shrubs and greenhouse plants, with all the latest remedies for their eradication / by T.W. Sanders.

  • Thomas William Sanders
Date:
[1910]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Garden foes : insect, animal and fungoid pests injurious to fruit and vegetable crops, hardy plants, trees, shrubs and greenhouse plants, with all the latest remedies for their eradication / by T.W. Sanders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B SUMMER SPRAY FLUIDS. V2 Fluid (Cooper’s).—A remedy for the active forme of Aphis, Psylla, Scale insects, and Caterpillars. Dilute one gallon of the fluid with cold water to make 100 gal- lons. Non-])oisonous. V2K Fluid, made by the same manufacturers, is a suitable fungicide for destroying mildews. Woburn Tobacco Extract (Voss’s).—A prepara- tion invented by Mr. Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., as a remedy for the Apple Sucker (Psylla), Green and Black Fly, Cuckoo Spit, American Blight, Thrips, Caterpillars, etc. Dilute one part with 100 parts of water (lib. in 10 gallons) for general purposes; one in 50 for American Blight. Poisonous. Woburn Bordeaux Paste (Voss’s).—A patent mixture invented by Mr. Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., and a suitable remedy for the Potato Disease, Apple and Pear Scab, Brown Rot, Peach Leaf Curl, rusts, and fungoid diseases generally. Possesses a great advantage over the ordinary Bordeaux Mixture in being easy to prepare, of more uniform strength, and more efficacious in action. Used in varying strengths according to the crop and disease. Woburn Bordeaux Emulsion (Voss’s).—A com- bined fungicide and insecticide for spraying roses and fruit trees infested with Mildew, Caterpillars, and pests generally. One gallon to be added to nine of water. Woburn Iron Emulsion (Voss’s).—A cheap insecti- cide for destroying Aphides and Cater])illars on roses and fruit trees. One gallon to be added to 20 to 30 gallons of water.
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