RED SPIDER
How To Deal With It
Red spiders’ eggs are now hatching out. Border earnations, pinks, oriental poppies and gypsophilas are favourites with this sap-sucking, leaf-bleach-ing foe. To obtain mastery, spray carnations and pinks with salt solution (ioz. of co.mmon table salt in a gallon of water). softer-leaved plants use nicotine insecticide. You may have to spray twice for the latter, but once with salt solution is enough. You can do a great deal to prevent an attack by spraying with clear water on warm evenings.
Erica carnea and its varieties are delightful small shrubs and should not be overlooked during the planting season.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 8, 4 October 1941, Page 14
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105RED SPIDER Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 8, 4 October 1941, Page 14
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