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Garden Plants and Their Problems |
| Gardenia |
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| Whiteflies |
Pale-green ovals on under- |
Spray with DDT, or para- |
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side of leaves, white |
thion. |
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""moths,"" much sooty |
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mold; very common. |
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| Soft scale |
Plants weakened, stunted; |
Summer oil spray, Volck. |
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sooty mold. |
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| Mealybugs |
White cottony ovals; oc- |
Summer oil spray, Volck. |
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casional. |
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| Fuller rose |
Notches eaten from leaf |
Spray with DDT. |
| beetle |
margins. |
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| Geranium |
| Whiteflies |
Leaves turn yellow, drop. |
DDT spray or dust. |
| Cyclamen, |
Young leaves curled, ap- |
See cyclamen. |
| broad mites |
pear scorched. |
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| Mealybugs |
See Fuchsia. |
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| Botrytis blight |
Gray mold when plants too |
Avoid overhead watering; |
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moist. |
remove diseased parts. |
| Oedema |
Swelling in leaves from |
Water with caution. |
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over-watering. |
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| Gladiolus |
| Gladiolus thrips |
Leaves silvered, flowers |
Spray or dust with DDT; |
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streaked, deformed. |
dust corms with DDT in |
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fall. |
| Yellows |
Wilt, important in Middle |
Choose resistant varieties. |
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West. |
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| Botrytis and |
More important in South |
Spray with Dithane or Par- |
| Curvularia |
and in Northwest. |
zate. |
| flower blights |
| Corm rots, scab |
Lesions on corms, spots on |
Dust corms with Arasan; |
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leaves. |
discard rotted corms. |
| GoLDENGLOW |
| Goldenglow |
Red lice on stems. |
Spray with nicotine-soap or |
| aphid |
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any contact insecticide. |
| Gooseberry |
| See Currant |
Alternate host for white |
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pine blister rust. |
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