Pests of garden plants

Aphids, or plant-lice, and their congeners, are indicated by an unhealthy appearance in plants; the leaves and young shoots curl up, and multitudes of ants, which seem to feed on their secretions, are seen about the stems. A remedy is found in repeatedly syringing the leaves and stems with tobacco or lime-water, or with gas-tar […]

    Of the slugs there are several varieties, but the most destructive in gardens are the small white and small black slugs, which bury themselves in the ground or under leaves and come out in the night-time to feed. To destroy these, take fresh lime in a powdered state, put it into a coarse bag […]

    To prevent snails crawling up walls and trees, they must be looked for, picked off by the hand and killed. If a thick paste is made with train oil and soot, and the bottom of the wall is daubed with it, an effectual barrier is formed over which no snails will attemp to pass.

    This is one of the most baneful insect pests that the gardener has to deal with either in the open air or in greenhouses or hothouses, in which it is very prevalent when they have been kept too hot or too dry. There are various acari or mites which infest and injure plants, but […]

    Every animal or creature endowed with life, that it has pleased the almighty in his infinite wisdom to create, has, without doubt, its useful purpose to serve, and yet how many of them are, and must be, regarded by man as ‘pests of the garden’- plagues that often hinder the progress of plant life, […]