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9th. Five trees, sprayed four times with lime, yielded 465 wormy 

 cherries out of 5000 examined, while five check trees yielded 778 wormy 

 cherries, from 5000 examined. The percentage of the former was 9.3, 

 while that of the latter was 15.6, which gives a perceiitage of benefit 

 from the treatment of 40.3. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



These experiments seem to show so far as the results of a single 

 season's work with a single variety of cherry can be relied upon : 



1st. That three-fourths of the cherries liable to injury by the plum 

 curculio can be saved by two or three applications of London purple in 

 a water spray (in the proportion one ounce to five gallons of water) made 

 soon after the blossoms fall. 



2nd. That if an interval of a month occurs between the last appli- 

 cation and the ripening of the fruit, no danger to health need be appre- 

 hended from its use As a precautionary measure, however, I would 

 advise in all cases, and especially when there are few rains during this 

 interval, that the fruit be thoroughly washed before it is used. 



3d. That lime is not so certain in its preventive effect as London 

 purple, saving in these experiments only forty per cent, of the fruit 

 liable to injury. 



FOR INSECT ENEMIES. 



Very seasonable is this brief but comprehensive enumeration of 

 remedies for injurious insects, and the like: Tobacco smoke kills the 

 green f\y; water, the red spider; jarring the curculio; Paris-green and 

 water, the codling moth; water, soap and carbolic acid, the bark louse; 

 white hellebore, the currant and gooseberry worm; spraying with Paris- 

 green and water, the canker worm; wire cloth tied around the base of the 

 tree prevents borers; tobacco water kills plant lice; slug shot will keep 

 off the turnip fly, cabbage worm and other garden pests; the strawberry 

 leaf rollers must be picked off, or a new planting made; the tent cater- 

 piller, by cutting off the leaves and branches and burning; cutting off all 

 the infected limbs for blight, and knot; sulphur is good for mildew\ — 

 Prairie Farmer. 



FIGHTING APPLE-BORERS. 



We again urge upon our readers the desirability or fighting apple- 

 borers especially on young trees, and present below the recommenda- 



