Garden Receipts, Ed by C W Quin |
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Author:
| Quin, Charles William |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-47763-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANTS-APHIDES. 7 in cold water, and let it stand for five or six hours, by which time the ants will all be drowned and their eggs destroyed. One of the most simple and effectual ways to destroy ants is to pour boiling water on the nests at night, but in those cases where boiling water cannot be applied...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ANTS-APHIDES. 7 in cold water, and let it stand for five or six hours, by which time the ants will all be drowned and their eggs destroyed. One of the most simple and effectual ways to destroy ants is to pour boiling water on the nests at night, but in those cases where boiling water cannot be applied recourse must be had to some other remedy. Yellow Prussiate of Potash.?Yellow prussiate of potash (ferrocyanide of potassium), 1 drachm; raspings of quassia, 1 drachm; sugar in sufficient quantity to form a syrup. The ants are said to devour this greedily and die almost immediately. It must bo borne in mind that in applying any or the above remedies, it may be necessary to repeat the dose several times. The ant is extremely tenacious of life, and is one of the die-hards of the insect world. Not only this, but during the breeding season, as instinct leads it to carry off its eggs to a place of safety the moment that danger threatens, the immediate neighbourhood of the nest must be looked after, as well as the nest itself. When the ants are caught alive they must be a: once carried away to a distant spot, and either burned or drowned. Aphides. The Aphides, of which there are some fifteen reputed species, are amongst the most troublesome of the many insects that find their way to the garden. There is hardly a plant upon which they will not settle, and they multiply so fast that sometimes as many as twenty generations are produced in the course of the season, and a single female may be the ancestor of five millions in the fifth generation. The most destructive are the green fly (Aphis rosre), which attacks Hoses and indoor plants generally; A. pruni, a light green insect, which does much mischief to the Plum trees; A. fabas, a black fly, which attacks the tops of B...