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To Destroy Green Fly

Syringe the plants with tobacco water. One part ammoniacal liquor from the gas-works, mixed with 5 or more parts of water, according to its strength, will also destroy the insects. 1855. Wash to Prevent Cattle from lime; mix with a little water, to the consistency of thick lime-wash, and lay this on the stems of the trees as far as the cattle can reach. 1856. Το Prevent Grub in Onions.

Make some strong lime-water, add to it as much soot as will make it into a thin paint, and water the crop with it the moment the maggot appears. This soot mixture is so stim- 1847. To Prevent Ants from Injuring Fruit Trees. Make a line of gas-tar round ulating a manure that it should always be the stem of the tree, or if it be trained on a used to increase the weight of the crop. wall, make a horizontal line near the ground, House-slops mixed with lime and soot would on the wall, and one round the stem; this be still more powerful, both to destroy magdestroy magwill prevent ants from ascending. got and improve the plant; but unless rain followed immediately, it would be advisable any length of time, it will probably all swim, to drench the ground with pure water the day though it has not lost its vegetating properafter application. Ground intended for a crop ties. of large onions should be prepared in the autumn, and after being dug over, should be watered with a mixture of sulphuric acid and water, made so strong as to burn the tongue.

This will destroy every animal in the soil, and the winter rains will wash it away entirely before spring. 1857. To Prevent Attacks of Red Spider. In cases where the infested plants can be well syringed, a few times repeating this operation will cause them to disappear.

When this cannot be resorted to with safety, the flues or pipes may be washed over with sulphur, and should be kept warm to raise an 1864. Το Clean Cucumber and Melon Seed. Take all the seeds that sink in water and put them into a hair sieve; pour some warm water over them that has been heated to 90° or 95° Fahr., and then rub the seeds about in the sieve. The warm water will divest them of the glutinous matter, and it may be easily rubbed off them through the sieve, after which they may be laid to dry.

Cucumber and melon seeds will vegetate after they have been kept for years.

1865. Το Kill Moss on Lawns. Water the lawn with a weak solution of ammoniacal liquor (see No. 1854); 1 gallon of this liquor effluvia in the house, which will soon eradi- is sufficient to mix with 4 gallons of water, cate these pests. If a little soft soap is and should be put on with a rose water-pot. mixed with the water to syringe with, it will It will cause the grass to look brown afterprove obnoxious to many other insects as well wards for a while, but it will become green as red spider, and will not injure the foliage of again. Another way is to procure some very the plant, providing the plants are not syr- fine siftings of coal-ashes, and sow them inged when the scorching hot sun is upon all over the parts where moss abounds. It them.

1858. To Kill Thrips on Cucumbers and Melon Plants. To kill thrips on cucumbers and melon plants, they should be syringed with tobacco water, and a little sulphur added, or with a decoction of elder leaves; either of these repeated a few times will only be requisite to sow them very thinly, and if done just before a shower of rain, so mnch the better, as the rain will wash it in; this will kill the moss without injuring the grass. The presence of moss indicates that the soil is exhausted, and a top-dressing of nitrate of soda or soot will be found beneficial. will suffice; or the infested parts may be If the grass is made to thrive, it will always dusted over with flowers of sulphur, and al- choke the moss. (See No. 1876.) lowed to remain on for 3 or 4 days, when it 1866. To Kill Moss on Meadow Land. should be washed off thoroughly with a syringe. (See No. 1850.)