PLAN No. 447. A SIMPLE DANDELION DESTROYER

Having discovered a simple yet effective method of destroying dandelions without digging up the roots, injuring the grass or otherwise disfiguring the lawns, a middle-aged landscape gardener in an eastern city made a great deal of money by taking contracts to destroy these perennial pests in hundreds of lawns, being frequently offered $100 by a wealthy householder if he would successfully eradicate them from the premises.

All he used for this purpose was sulphate of copper, which he bought by the barrel at less than 5 cents per pound, but which he sold at 25 cents per pound to those who wished to apply it themselves, though in most cases property owners preferred to have him do the work himself, and while there was no great labor involved, it usually paid him at the rate of $2.50 an hour, the material used costing about 20 cents, as one pound of the sulphate will make about four gallons of the solution, which is applied with a sprayer, sprinkling the tops of the plants liberally. This effectually destroys the dandelion, while the blue grass or clover of the lawn is not injured in the slightest degree by its application.