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and moss, and the wood is left quite bright and polished in appearance. 

 The solution should be applied in the form of a spray, with a knapsack 

 pump, or a Stott sprayer, fixed on the end of the branch attached to 

 the tube or hose of a garden engine. Every part of the tree should be 

 well wetted with it, paying particular attention to the stems — the 

 rougher the bark the greater the need —and forcibly drive it into every 

 crevice. Choose a fine still day for applying it, as windy weather 

 results in much of the wash being lost. 



" The person applying it should wear leather or iudiarubber gloves 

 on his hands and a suit of old clothes, as the spray being so caustic 

 burns the skin, and would also soon spoil good clothes. For the same 

 reason the operator should not allow the spray to blow in his face, 

 and when mixing he should not hold his head over the buckets, as the 

 ingredients boil violently for a few minutes. If these few simple 

 precautions are taken it is perfectly safe to use, and does an immense 

 amount of good. Where large quantities of wash are required, the 

 ingredients may be placed together in a copper holding the required 

 quantity of water, and afterwards boiled until the chemicals are 

 dissolved, when it would at once be ready for use. However hot 

 the wash may be, the spray is quite cool by the time it reaches the 

 trees ; the force with which it is driven out, and the fact of its coming 

 in contact with the air bringing this about, so that there is nothing 

 whatever to fear in this direction. I have used it now for several 

 years past, and it has effected an immense amount of good on the 

 fruit-trees at Stoke Edith."— (A. W.) 



DEER. 



Red-bearded Bot Ply. 

 Cephenomyia rufibarbis, Meig., Brauer, and Schiner. 



This is a large handsome fly, about three-quarters of an inch in 

 length, of a very broad rounded make, the colour chiefly black or 

 brown, variously marked and intermingled with reddish, olive brown, 

 and white hairs, the hairs themselves being sometimes parti- coloured, 

 and so hairy altogether as to appear clothed with fur. The body 

 between the wings has a cross-band behind the head of tawny or olive 

 brown above, lighter at the sides, and ending in a patch of very light 

 hairs beneath the insertion of the wings. Abdomen with the fore part 

 with blackish yellow, fox red, or gold-brown hairs ; legs black with 

 brown shanks ; wings broad, about half inch an long, with blackish 

 brown veins, and the lower part of the wings sometimes brownish. 

 There appears to be a good deal of diflierence in colour in difl'erent 

 specimens, but one marked characteristic is that the cheeks and mouth 



