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WHITE HELLEBORE TEA. 



For use on rose slugs of all sorts, currant and gooseberry worms and all saw- 

 fly larvfe, use the above, prepared as follows : To one gallon of boiling water add 

 one table spoonful white hellebore, in powder ; let it stand until cold, and apply in 

 the evening with a tine sprinlsler or whisls broom. Make a second application in a 

 week or ten days if there has been much raia in the meantime, or if the insects are 

 not all killed by the first application. 



For cabbage worms of all kinds use hot water, 130° Fahrenheit, or pyrethrum 

 powder ( California Bubach ) diluted with six or eight times its bulk of flour or air- 

 slaked lime, or dust the plants thickly with corn meal, bran or mill feed. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE. 



To every 10 gallons of water add one pound of lime and one pound copper car- 

 bonate (blue vitriol ). Dissolve these separately in hot water and mix when cool. 



AMMONIACAL COPPER CARBONATE SOLUTION. 



Dissolve one ounce of blue vitriol in six ounces of ammonia and dilute with 10 

 gallons of water. Either of these fungicides may be combined with Paris green by 

 simply adding them in the above proportions to the amount of water in which one 

 pound of the green is suspended. It is claimed that the action of Paris green, 

 while equally eflfective as an insecticide, is, when combined with the fungicide, 

 much less liable to injure foliage. 



For all powdery mildews simply dusting with sulphur is a remedy. 



SPRAYING ORCHARDS. 



The following summary of a series of experiments made at Cornell by E, G. 

 Lodeman will give every one wishing to spray their orchards some facts of value : 

 The Bordeaux mixture was as follows : 



Copper sulphate 6 lbs . 



Quick- lime 4 " 



Water 40 gals. 



Cost, 1 1-5 cents per gallon. 

 The ammoniacal solution was as follows: 

 Carbonate of copper 1 oz. 



Ammonia enough to dilute the copper. 

 Water 9 gal. 



Cost, 1 cent per gallon. 

 Paris green 2| oz . 



Quick-lime, Hb was added to the ammoniacal solution of 40 gallons. 



Paris green, 2J oz. to 40 gal. of Bordeaux mixture was added and the following 

 results are deduced from the series of experiments : 



CAUTION. 



Before any one uses this strong solution I would advise a thorough trial first. 

 I am positive that in our bright sunlight injury will follow to the foliage, and fruits 

 also, 1 fear. If the solution of either is used much more diluted, it will accom- 

 plish the same purpose and there will be no danger of injury. 



1 would recommend the use of the following, as being much more safe and 

 just as eflicient: 



