RHUBARB AS AN INSECTICIDE
The planting of a few rhubarb stools in a tomato house is reported as being a preventive against white tly. The “fly” attacks the rhubarb leaves, which have fatal effects. On top of this comes a sequel which will probably be new to many of us—that is, using the water in which rhubarb leaves have been boiled’as a preventive of all kinds of aphis. The discoverer, or, anyway, user of this says that he never gets green fly. rose maggot, or leaf miner, and uses nothing else in the garden. The leaves are boiled for about an hour, and then the water is strained and diluted by three or four times its own bulk, and the plants sprayed. He found no damage to the most tender. Rhubarb leaves arc to be had in most gardens, and as the blade is of no value ami thrown away, it will be utilising a waste product. Anyway, it appears to be worth trying, and if the result is nil it will only mean a loss of time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 13
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178RHUBARB AS AN INSECTICIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 13
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