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COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA
Ma r c h , 1916
f< This is how weather destroys an unpainted or poorly painted house"
Look over your house. Is the bare wood exposed anywhere? 1# so decay has already starred and nothing but paint will stop it. Do not put off this important matter. The cost is small--the saving enormous.
There is on sale in your town a paint that has been protecting houses for 50 years. Your painter knows it as
SWP
(Sherwtn-Williams Prepared Paint)
This SWP is a right combination of those ingredients that experience has proved to be best. It will wear longer on your house and hold its color as long as it lasts.
Ask your painter to use it. He will like the way it spreads and covers. You will like the way it wears and holds its looks.
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Wennial Plants in this country. We have is sued a yptciul catalogue of these giving name, color, height, and time of flowering of nearly :* thousand species and varieties. Also a number of
Plans of Hardy Borders
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! cent years a deadly enemy of many trees known ! as tine leopard moth. It bucume established in J America about 1882, and lu.s already caused much
injury in the vicinity of NYw York City ami
Huston. The large, white, blur-marked moths
arc abroad from early Jum- till December. Tlu; eggs are deposited in the crevices tif tin- lurk, ami
the young boring caterpillar iqnraic at first m tin: twigs, later in the larger hramhes. and imi infrequently in the trunk. The w<.< k of this j h >i
in brunches is very cbaraeTt-nsru-. miiiv its- -.!
Ic-rws frequently weaken them in mu !i a mamw* f as to cause a break four to ten feet from the rip.
r Sometimes a caterpillar will nearly futile a irct. . Invariably there is a small, circular opening from : which borings are thrust nut in peculiar. rntimh-d.
web-bound pellets. This pernicious insect ha* - been recorded as attacking igl-rv-thiv- spren-s i of rruesand shrubs. There o. no lu-ttvr nu-rhod < !' j controlling it than cutting |f and burning m * Tested limbs, and destroying rlw cntt-rpill.ir* in tin ; larger branches or trunks bv rhe use of a ik-.xihh: wire or by the injection of carbon histdphide and ' scaling the orifice with grafting wax. puttv. m . soap. An oidluarv machinist's oil can will
greatly facilitate work with this insecticide. . The hickory hark hurrr, deadly clientv of
: valuable forest and shade tree, has dvsrmycd thousands of magnificent trees in th- central part of New York State, and is now killing mam
hickories in the Hudson Valley, especially in rh. vicinity of New York City. The small, brown 1 1 black beetles, only about l inch long. ap|H-:>t
from the last of June co tin* last of July, and bore into young twigs, terminal buds, and green nucs, frequently causing the wilting of leaves and
the deacn of twigs. They also excavare umk-i the bark of the trunk and the larger branches, a longitudinal gallery an inch or more m length,
about | inch in diameter, and easily rccugm/.ed by the small, transverse lines or galleries arising
orv either side, increasing gradually in size, and ar a little distance diverging in a somewhat fan shaped manner. These galleries are made by the grubs, in the inner bark, and whenever abundant practically girdle the tree and cause its speedy
death. AH such infested trees or portions of trees should be cut and burned prior to the ap
pearance of the beetles the following summer.
It is particularly important to detect the trees injured the previous seasun. since they are the ones containing grubs likely to mature and con tinue the destructive work another year. Gen eral cooperation along this line Is necessary if tin* best results are to be secured. Highly prized trees on lawns might well be sprayed about the middle of May with arsenate of lead, using 6 to 8 pound.co 50 gallons of water, and ta kmc special pains re cover the twigs and the base of tbs leaf stalks.
The tioo-lined chestnut btittr, 2 native xpecii-s
which in the past has been very injurious u chest nut and oak >n different sections of the country, is destroying oaks at the present time on Long Is land. It is possible that rhis outbreak is an indirect result of the widespread devastation bv
chestnut blight, an affection which has destroyed
nearly all the chestnut trees in the vicinity m New York City. Manyof the affected oiicswcrc
undoubtedly injured also by borers. With thr
elimination of the chestnuts. These borers haw-
been compelled to turn to adjacent oaks. Thy long, slender borers, with the anterior |x>rtion of the body expanded, and dark. I*rny, sputx
processes at the opposite extremity, making wmtl | mg, shallow; galleries in tin- inner bark. 1 lw\ ! winter in the affected part and can therefore be
} checked in large measure by the prompt curtma ; out and burning of the bark of the infested tin-'
prior to the appearance of rhe beetle. He is a dull black, yellow striped, and is only 2 inch long
The bronze birch borert a close ally of the pre
ceding, has destroyed hundreds ol ornamental
birch trees in the central and western portion ol New York State, and has killed some trees in tin-
\ eastern part of the state. 1 he parent beech-.
| neatly | inch long, and olive brown, is abroad dor* . ing June. The slender, wince grub with a large. * flartnu-rl anterior portion ami dark, spiny. Itonix
processes at the other extremity, nukes rortuoU'
; yatieries in the inner bark of the limbs and trunk.
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