Plant composition

Claim 1

A PESTIDCIDAL COMPOSITION FOR THE TREATMENT OF PLANTS COMPRISING 0.1 TO 50% BY WEIGHT OF HYDROCARBON MINERAL OIL INSOLUBLE PESTICIDAL MATERIAL HAVING AN AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE NOT GREATER THAN ABOUT 6 MICRONS IN DIAMETER, ABOUT 1 TO 40% BY WEIGHT OF AN OIL SOLUBLE POLYMERIC MATERIAL, ABOUT 0.2 TO 3% BY WEIGHT OF A HYDROCARBON MINERAL OIL INSOLUBLE MICRODIMENSIONAL FIBROUS MATERIAL AND ABOUT 10 TO 98.7, BY WEIGHT OF A CARRIER OIL, SAID PESTICIDAL MATERIAL BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF THE SODIUM, ZINC, IRON AND MANGANESE SALTS OF ETHYLENE DITHIOCARBAMATE, COPPER HYDROXIDE, COPPER OXIDE, TRIBASIC COPPER SULFATE, COPPER ARSENITE, COPPER OXYCHLORIDE-SULFATE, CALCIUM ARSENATE, LEAD ARSENATE, SODIUM FLUORIDE, SULFUR, TETRAMETHYL THIURAM DISULFIDE, 1-NAPHTHYL N-METHYL CARBAMATE, 3-(2-(3,5-DIMETHYL-2OXYECYCLOHEXYL)-2-HYDROXYETHYL) GLUTARIMIDE, N-TRICHLOROMETHYLMERCAPTO-4-CYCLOHEXENE-1,2-DICARBOXIMIDE AND MIXTURES THEREOF, SAID POLYMERIC MATERIAL BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A POLYBUTENE HOMOPOLYMER HAVING A MOLECULAR WEIGHT OF AT LEAST 1000, A C4-C18 ALKYL METHACRYLATE POLYMER PREPARED FROM A MIXTURE OF 10 TO 40* BY WEIGHT BUTYL METHACRYLATE, 50 TO 80% BY WEIGHT LAURYL METHACRYLATE AND 5 TO 15% BY WEIGHT STEARYL METHACRYLATE, AND A VINYL PYRROLIDONE-ALKYL METHACRYLATE COPOLYMER PREPARED FROM A MIXTURE OF MONOMERS COMPRISING 4-15% BY WEIGHT OF VINYL PYRROLIDONE AND 85-96% BY WEIGHT OF AN ALKYL METHACRYLATE WHEREIN THE ALKYL GROUP CONTAINS FROM 4 TO 18 CARBON ATOMS, SAID MICRODIMENSIONAL FIBROUS MATERIAL BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF INORGANIC MICROFIBERS HAVING AN AVERAGE FIBER DIAMETER BETWEEN 0.01 AND 2.0 MICRONS, AND ORGANIC MICROFIBERS, HAVING AN AVERAGE FIBER DIAMETER BETWEEN 1 AND 20 MICRONS, WHEREIN SAID POLYMERIC MATERIAL AND SAID FIBROUS MATERIAL ARE EFFECTIVE TO DISPERSE AND MAINTAIN SAID PESTICIDAL MATERIAL IN SUSPENSION IN SAID CARRIER OIL.