WHITE BUTTERFLY
DESTROY AT EGG STAGE
The following advice, from an English gardening book, should prove useful whore the white butterfly has made its appearance./' The best, way to provent tho hoards of yellow and green cabbago-ivliite caterpillars, that descend oi the greens, converting their leaves into'it network of holes, is to hunt for ami destroy the eggs, which may readily bo found on both sur/aces of tho leaves-. These eggs are readily re-, cognised, aud it really is profitable to spend an hour or so in the evening turning over the leaves occasionally. Eggs rubbed off with the finger and thumb may mean. a total absence of eaterpill a/s 'later on.*' ; If, however, any escape vigilance, as they may do, the greens may bo cleared of caterpillars, by putting a handful of common salt into a couple of gallons 6f water and squirting this, with a syringe, into the plants, when the offending grub will bo driven, out and can be destroyed. The syringing is best done iv the evening.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 22
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171WHITE BUTTERFLY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 22
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