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Food Productiox from the Garden. — This 

 IS the title of :\ressrs. Sutton & Sons' new 

 vegetable cataloscue. and well reflects the spirit 

 of the times. For war reasons Messrs. Sutton 

 have found it necessaiy to issue their vegetable 

 list separately, and in this we think they have 

 gained rather than lost. An enormous number 

 of people are now growing vegetables who never 

 grew anything at all before, and to them Messrs. 

 Sutton's catalogue may be heartily recom- 

 mended for immediate study. Not only are the 

 illustrations lavish and beautiful, as usual, but, 

 to tlie most important food crops, very full and 

 pointed cultural details have been added which 

 will prove of inunense service to novices. In 

 some cases, too, ilhistrations showing methods of 

 raising and transplanting crops have been added, 

 and we commend this innovation to the notice of 

 our readers. It is hardly necessary to refer to 

 the great number of varieties of the best vege- 

 tables which is offered. -Very many of them are 

 of the firm's own raising and have taken a high 

 place not only when exhibited, but in the severe 

 practical test of the private and market garden. 

 We cannot do better than advise our readers to 

 write for a catalogue to Messrs. Sutton & Sons, 

 Reading, England. 



Appointment. 



Mn. 1*. D. Reid, until lately gardener at Ashford, 

 Cong, Co. Oalway, has been appointed head 

 gardener at St. Anne's. Clontarf, in succession to 

 the late Mr. Andrew Campbell. 



Winter Spraying of Fruit Trees. 



'PHE following extracts are from the " Spraving 

 Calendar," given by Professor Pickering, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Director of the Woburn Experimental Fruit 

 Farm, and F. V. Theobald, M.A., Vice-Principal, 

 South Eastern Agricultiu'al College, Wve, Kent, in 

 their very useful; hand-book, " Fruit Trees and their 

 Enemies." (Copies of this book can be had i^ost 

 free for Is. 9d. each.) 



" Apart from the consideration of the direct action 

 of a winter wash in destroying various pests which 

 are probably present, moss, lichen and dead bark 

 must always accumulate, and the freer trees are 

 kept from these the healtliier they will be, and the 

 less will be the opportunities afforded for insects to 

 flourish on them." 



From January to ^larch. — Spray trees M-ith a 

 cavistic paraffin emulsion for cleansing them of dead 

 bark, and destroying moss, lichen, mussel scale, 

 small apple ermin moth, gooseberry and currant 

 scale, gooseberry spider, ciu'rant shoot and fruit 

 moth, pear leaf bliistcr mltc, and jjossibly other in- 

 sects." 



Winter spraying is now resorted to by "practically 

 every up-to-date fruit grower. The formula most 

 recommended for Winter Spraying Emulsion is as 

 follows: — Soft soap •!■ lb. ; paraffin (solar distillate) 

 5 pints ; caustic soda, 2 to 2^1bs. ; water, 0^ gallons. 

 The necessary articles for this and all other Spray- 

 ing and Fumigating Mixtures can be had, with 

 directions for mixing, ii'om D. M. Watson, M.P.S., 

 Horticultural Chemist, 61 South Great George's 

 Street, Dublin. 'Phone. 1971. 



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