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Artificial peat, to make 



Asphalte for walks 



Barley-sugar for bees 



Bee sting, to cure 



Birds, to destroy 



Black fly on cherry trees 



Blacklead, to render indelible 



on labels 

 Bleeding in vines, to stop 

 Blight on fruit trees 

 Blue hydrangeas, to produce 

 Bricks with white efflorescence 

 Bug, on pine-apple 

 Bulbs, to pack 

 Cabbages, to prevent club in 

 Calico-lights, to make 

 Carnations, to protect from 



rabbits 

 Carnations, &c, to protect 



from insects 

 Caterpillar on gooseberries 

 Cattle barking trees, to prevent 

 Cloth, to waterproof 

 Club, to prevent in broccoli 

 Cockroaches, to poison 

 Compost for all kinds of plants 

 Compost for lemons 

 Concrete floors and walks 

 Coral for rockwork, to make 

 Crickets, to poison 

 Cucumber and melon seeds, 



to prove 

 Cucumbers, to clear of thrips 

 Cucumbers, to keep 

 Cut flowers, to preserve 

 Dahlia roots, to preserve 

 Damping, to prevent; 

 Docks and Dandelions, to kill 

 Dry rot, wash to prevent 

 Duckweed, to remove from 



ponds 

 Earwigs, trap for 

 Eggs, to preserve 

 Ferns, &e., compost for 

 Filberts, to preserve 

 Fire-proof paint 

 Fishponds, to make 

 Flooring for sheds 

 Flower-sticks, to prevent rot- 

 ting 

 Flowers, to preserve as they 



grow 

 Flowers, to arrange for effect 

 Flowers, to preserve fresh 

 Fountains, to calculate ajutage 



for 

 Fogging off, to stop 

 Fruit, to preserve 

 Fungi, to dry for herbarium 

 Fumigator, a simple one 

 Fumigating, simple modes of 

 Gardeners' boots, towaterproof 

 Gidney's fumigator 

 Glass, substitute for 

 Gold-fish, treatment of 

 Gooseberry caterpillar 

 Grafting clay 

 Grafting wax 



Gravel-walks to clear of weeds 

 Gravel-walks, to remove moss 

 from 



Green-paint, a cheap 



Grub in onions 



Gumming in trees, to prevent 



Hares, barking trees, to pre- 

 vent 



Herbarium, to make 



Herbs, to dry 



Hot-water pipes, to joint 



Hot-water pipes, to stop leak- 

 ing 



Hybridising, to perform 



Ice, to preserve 



Imperishable putty 



Ink for zinc labels 



Iron-work, varnish for 

 i Labels for plants 



Lawns, to remove moss from 



Leakage in pipes, to stop 



Liquid manures, to make 



Lime-water for lawns 



Maggot in roses 



Manure, rape dust, as 



Marble, to clean 



Marsh plants, to propagate ' 



Meadow-land, to clear of moss 



Mealy-bug, to remove 



Mealy-bug on vines 



Melons, to rid of red spider 



Mice, to keep from peas 



Mice, to poison 



Mildew, to remove 



Mistletoe, to propagate 



Moles, to extirpate 



Mortar, to make fire-proof 



Moss on fruit trees 

 Moths, to kill for preserving 

 Mousetrap for garden use 

 Nails for wall-trees 

 Otto of roses, to make 

 Paint for out-door work 

 Paper-lights, to make 

 Parsley, to dry for winter 

 Peaches, etc., to protect from 



wasps 

 Peas, to protect from slugs, &c. 

 Perfume for fancy jars 

 Pines, to remove scale from 

 Pipe, rule to calculate the 



necessary quantity of 

 Poison to kill trees 

 Pots, to rid of worm 

 Preservation of flowers 

 Procede Grison 

 Putty, old, to soften 

 Rustic seats, to varnish 

 Bats, to poison 

 Red spider, to destroy 

 Rockwork, to construct 

 Roots, to puddle 

 Scale, to remove 

 S^eds, to prepare for exporta- 

 tion 

 Snails, trap for 



Tar varnish for iron and wood 

 Thrips, to destroy 

 Tobacco-water, to make 

 Trap for cockroaches 

 Tulips, &c., to expand 

 Turnip-fly, to prevent 

 Vine mildew 

 Vine scale, to remove 

 Vines, to clear of red spider 

 Vines, to stop bleeding 

 Wallnuts, to preserve 

 Wasps' nests, to destroy 

 White flowers, to turn red 

 Wire-worm, to trap 

 Withered flowers, to revive 

 Wood, preservative wash for 

 Woodliee, trap for 

 Worms on gravel-walks and 

 grass-plots. 



TiOOMBTUDGrE 



LONDON: 

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