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To Remove Green Fly

Choose a still evening, and let the plants be quite dry.

Arrange them together in a close place; put into an iron pan, or a flower-pot, a few red-hot move the soil from the bottom of the stem to cinders that do not smoke, upon which lay the main roots, and paint all the underground the tobacco or tobacco-paper; a cloud of part. February is a good time for this. If smoke will soon arise. When the frame is one application is not sufficient, repeat. Use well filled with smoke, remove the pan, and the paint warm. When this has become dry, be exceedingly careful that the tobacco does the trees should be looked over, and all cracks and holes stopped with well worked clay, and after frost the clay-stoppings should be dressed again, to close any cracks that may occur.

1845. To Destroy Aphides, and Other Insects on Plants. Take of quassia chips, 34 ounces; larkspur seed, 5 drachms; boil these together in 7 pints water until the decoction not break out into a flame. 1852. To Fumigate Plants with Tobacco Smoke. There are various modes of employing the smoke of tobacco for the destruction of insect pests in plant houses, but the best is as follows:- According to the size of the place to be fumigated provide one or more pieces of cast-iron 1 inch thick and 3 ignition is more rapid and complete, and a less quantity suffices. is reduced to 5 pints. When the liquid is cooled inches of surface. Make these red-hot and it is to be strained, and used with a watering- place each in a large-sized pot; and on them pot or syringe, as may be most convenient. as much tobacco as may be considered neces- This is a most excellent method of destroying sary to completely fill the house with smoke. insects on plants, without injury to the latter. An ordinary eight-light house will require 3 It is recommended by the highest authorities. heaters, and 1 pound of tobacco, divided into , divided into

1846. Blight on Fruit Trees, Roses, 3 equal parts. If the tobacco is previously and Fruit Bushes. When winter dressings soaked in a strong solution of saltpetre, its have failed, and the pests appear in spring to such an extent as to endanger the crop, procure a quantity of ammoniacal liquor from the gas-works, and to every pailful of the liquor add 6 of water, and boil as soon as possible in a large copper. Apply this in the evening, hot, with a syringe, drenching every part of the trees, and letting not a leaf escape.

It should be used as hot as can be borne by placing the hand in it, and thrown with as much force as possible into all the crevices in the bark, on the under sides of the leaves, and splashed vigorously against the wall on which Barking Trees. Take & cow-dung and espaliers are trained. It may be used also for roses and fruit bushes, with the most certain benefit. Two days after give another syringing with plain warm water. To clean the copper in which the mixture is prepared, fill it with water, throw in a shovel of cinder ashes and a pound of soda, and let it boil for half an hour.