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prevent their being broken by tlie wind. In this state they are 

 kept until they are ready to burst into flower, the object being to 

 retard vegetation at that season as much as possible. They are 



dressed Avith the following composition, namely: — Take equal 

 quantities of sulphur vivum. scotch snuff and unslaked lime, the 

 lime to be sifted through a fine sieve ; then add half quantities 

 of lamp-black, and mix the whole with urine and soft soap-suds 

 to the consistency of thick paint. The old and young wood is 

 dressed with this with a painter's brash, after the trees are 

 pruned, after which they are nailed all from the upper side of the 

 leading branches. 



Mr. Harrison's walls are fined, but the fire is used only to 

 ripen the fruit in succession if required, and in a very wet season 



